2008 ─ 2013 2011
Wan-Chi Chang Publishing
2008 ─ 2013
WAN-CHI CHANG WORKS Neither the begining, nor the end For me, This portfolio is just a comma
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WAN-CHI CHANG
birthday
1989.11.26
born
Taiwan
wanchidream@gmail.com
education
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Department of Industrial and Commercial Design Major in Industrial Design, Master (2012 - present) National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Department of Industrial and Commercial Design Major in Industrial Design, Bachelor (2008 - 2012) National Taichung Girl's Senior High School (2005 - 2008)
skill
Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign / Dreamweaver / ash / After Effects Pro Engineer / Autodesk Alias / Autodesk Keyshot / Vray / Google SketchUp
Design Award
2012 National Palace Museum Cultural Creativity Design Competition - Merit Prize 2012 Creative Sports Technology Competition - Merit Prize 2012 Youth Technology Expo (Industrial Design) - Third Prize 2012 iF Concept Award - Winner (top 100) 2011 Dechnology Competition - Honorable Mention 2010 National Palace Museum Cultural Creativity Design Competition - Honorable Mention 2010 The 6th Creative Design Competition - Finalist 2010 Syncmold Enterprise Industrial Design - Honorable Mention 2010 Creative Toy Concept Design - Merit Prize 2010 Journal of Environmental Engineering and Management Cover Design - Third Prize 2009 The 5th Creative Campus Decoration Competition - First Prize
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Extraordinary
2012 Class Treasurer 2011 Design Undergraduate Honor Program - Exhibition Leader of Industrial Design 2011 Taipei World Design Expo - Volunteer 2011 Taiwan Tech Design - Treasurer of Industrial Design 2010 Department of Industrial and Commercial Design - Vice Chairperson 2010 Class Treasurer 2009 Taiwan Designers' Week - Volunteer 2008 Class Chairperson
Exhibition
2013 National Palace Museum Cultural Creativity Design Exhibition - Revolving Clock 2012 Youth Technology Expo - Equirun 2012 Yodex Exhibition - Equirun 2011 Taipei World Design Expo - Angle 2011 Taiwan Tech Design - RoRo Jug
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Contents
PRODUCT DESIGN >> EQUIRUN
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REVOLVING CLOCK
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STRAW INCENSE
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SILVER CHAIR
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BUS BEACON
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CLASSROOM FINDING
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RORO JUG
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BLINDJOG
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SMART
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COMMERICAL DESIGN >> EASON CHAN -《?》
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WEATHER GIRL
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LIFE OF PI
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SKILLS >> SKETCH
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RENDERING
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PRO product design
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EQUIRUN sport equipment design 2012 designed by Wan-Chi Chang, Wei-Chung Shu
2012 Youth Technology Expo (Industrial Design) - Third Prize
Equirun is a new jogging program for visually impaired and the leader. It changs today's guidance which needs a rope held in hands and causes uncomfortableness and less exibility, in order to improve the interaction between both of joggers.
Background & Motive Sight loss can affect a person's independence because many daily activities rely on sight so much, not to mention that they go out to exercise. Due to the obstacle from sight loss, visually impaired become passive to sports and gradually it has negative effects on their health. Furthermore, since sighted people seldom have opportunity to interact with visually impaired, they couldn't know how inconvenience they have in real life and don't know how much they can do as well. As a result, based on the lack of exercise for visually impaired and poor understanding about sight loss for general people, we want to use sport as a connection to improve those situation, which helps with interaction between visually impaired and sighted people.
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Insititution visit Taipei School for the Visually Impaired is a school of approximately 110 students, from kindergarten to senior high school. We visited it to generally know assistive devices and learning enviroment for visually impaired and also took part in their PE lesson to interact with students there. Because some of students were totally blind, each warm-ups step had to be clearly described and the PE teacher then helped correct their movement.
Observation After exercising with students suffering from sight loss and consulting the teacher, we found : 1) Visually impaired didn't have any idea about new movement, not to mention that they create one. They need other people to help with their movement. 2) Clear description and tangible information are important for them to realize new movement.
Interview We interviewed 2 visually impaired to have better understanding about their life and exercise experience.
Ms. Chang
Mr. Chang
totally blind
totally blind
work in college
a runner, a director of a non-profit organization for visually impaired
doing yoga
jogging
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Why jog
Problem
Jog is an easier learning exercise and has less restriction on environmental factors. Therefore, it gives visually impaired more opportunity to go outside to exercise.
The body of the visually impaired are just like ours and have comparable exercise needs. We reckon jogging as a moderate exercise for them. While jogging, the visually impaired should be led by the other companion. In most of the current jogging programs designed for the visually impaired, they need a rope as an assistant equipment for guidance. Also, the guide has to focus on the direction they’re heading for and keeping the same posture at all times, in order to stay away from the obstacles posted around both of the joggers. This interaction between the two is not inefďŹ cient.
Idea sketch
3D model We chose two of possible ideas to build 3D model and think about the details, the mechanism as well as material.
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Prototype 1 We began to make some prototypes to examine ideas. We used acrylic tube which was put springs inside to make an retractable mechanism. Then in order to increase exibility during jogging, we used globular connected part to connect belt part.
Testing 1 We invited visually impaired to use our ďŹ rst prototype. We found if the ball-shape joints weren't not locked to the belt, it was very unsafe for visually impaired and it might make them fall down.
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Prototype 2 Based on the testing result, we used aluminum to make the retractable mechanism in order to improve the hardness, and also made comfortable belt to wear. Besides, we decided to create a sensing part so that visually impaired can get more information during jogging.
Equirun - Synchronizing our way
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Left-and-right guidance
Front-and-back guidance
Guidance Aside from traditional left-and-right guidance, Equirun includes front-and-back guiding mode that makes the guidance more intuitive and efďŹ cient, which also eliminates several environmental constraints.
Less space
Easier for guidance the visually-impaired just follow the leader's pace
BUZZ BUZZ
Sensor & Speaker
Retractable spring tactile
Optical distance sensing part
mechanism
Optical distance sensing part is used to provide the visually-impaired with full information, which exhibits the relative positions between the leader and the visually-impaired.
Retractable spring tactile mechanism facilitates the relative placement recognition between leader and the visually-impaired, such as stop and go forward.
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LED
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1. Optical distance sensing part 2. Pull out the globular connected part 3. Rotate the blue metal circular part to loosen the ďŹ xed system 4. Release it from the part 5. Pull out the globular connected part
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Video http://youtu.be/mKXkweVshbg
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REVOLVING CLOCK cultural creativity design 2012 designed by Wan-Chi Chang
2012 National Palace Museum Cultural Creativity Design Competition - Merit Prize
Revolving Clock is inspired by the Revolving Vase in Yellow Glaze Famille Rose with Auspicious Motifs of Ch'ing Dynasty, which was one of nobles' treasured curios. Combined with the interesting structure and characteristic pattern of the Revolving Vase, Revolving Clock is a useful tool in present day as well as a representation with ancestor's wisdom and aesthetic.
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Concept The Revolving Vase is composed of a outer vase and a inner vase. When the inner vase is spined, people can admire the changing pattern through the hollow shape of the outer vase. To Represent the enchantment of the Revolving Vase, the short hand of the Revolving Clock is designed to be a embossed surface with a hollow shape. As time goes by, the clock will have different pattern due to the movement of the short hand which makes the bottom pattern shown. In this way, people can not only read time but also appreciate the beauty and the value of the Revolving Vase.
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Feature In order to reveal the aesthetic of the Revolving Vase, the short hand surface is embossed with a design pattern transformed from the delicate surface patterning of the Revolving Vase.
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STRAW INCENSE experimental design 2013 designed by Wan-Chi Chang, Chung-Ping Lai, Chiu Chi, Yu-Chun Wang, Kai-Lan Huang
Straw Incense is a new possibility for straw product and also a solution to reduce the amount of air pollution.
Concept Burning incense to worship god is an important tradition in Chinese Culture. People believe that smoke can send their wishes and respects to another world. However, burning incense will generate a great amount of exhaust, which causes air pollution. Is there any solution to have the best of both worlds? According to the observation, we found that the farmers compress straw into blocks for burning. We decided to integrate these two common features: “born to be burned” and “replacing the bamboo (the core of incense) with the straw.” In fact, burning Straw Incense is making natural fertilizers and reduce the amount of air pollution.
Burning straw to fertilize the field
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Burning incense to worship god
Experimental process At ďŹ rst, we immersed straws in essential oil and then burned them. Unfortunately, the burning didn't last long.
After that, we decided to mimic original making of incense but a bamboo stick was replaced with the a straw. Finally, the burning can last.
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Cutting
Smearing incense mixture
Done
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SILVER CHAIR redesign 2010 designed by Wan-Chi Chang, Yuan-Ling Hsu
Silver Chair is a redesign furniture which is made up of waste things. Instead of much decoration, it shows the beauty of original materials to make people admire the entity of things and think about the possibility of waste.
Concept When objects couldn't fulďŹ l people's desire, they would be discarded and turn into waste. However, those discarded things may lose original function, they still keep most of material characteristic. In light of it, we want to create a redesign chair which comprises waste things to make people see the entity of things and know the possibility of waste when they admire Silver Chair.
Feature Discarded wheel frames of bicycles, spongy cushion, a table and umbrella fabric are main materials of Silver Chair. To keep original characteristic of material, an arc is a principal shape of Silver Chair due to those materials's initial form such as a wheel frame. Moreover, we use a black rope woven through many existent small holes of wheel frames to create a pattern to make the chair more vivid.
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Process
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BUS BEACON bus system for blind people 2013 designed by Wan-Chi Chang
Bus Beacon is a bus system for the visually impaired. It is made up of two parts - an Auditory Braille Device and an Intelligent Blind Bus Stop. The system utilizes GPS technology and Bluetooth technology to help the visually impaired take a bus independently.
Problem Due to sight loss, there is lots of inconvenience for the visually impaired, not to mention that they would like to take a bus. Most of bus information are designed as visual type which is hard for the visually impaired to get. Moreover, they have difďŹ culty identifying the bus service they need and thus they always need somebody's assistance.
Idea sketch According to the problem, the idea of the product is that the visually impaired can get information by an audio device and there is a bus stop which can let the bus driver know the bus service they need.
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/ Intelligent Blind Bus Stop The Intelligent Blind Bus Stop assists to show bus number the visually impaired need on the LED display and thus the bus driver will know to stop to pick them up. Also, It connects to bus service network and from which the visually impaired can get real-time bus informaiton.
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LED Display When the Itelligent Blind Bus Stop receive the signal, the LED display will begin to light the bus number the visually impaired send.
No signal
Receive the signal
/ Auditory Braille Device The Auditory Braille Device has built-in GPS, which guides the visually impaired to the the bus stop by audio message. The braille buttons allows user to key in number or words to the Intelligent B
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real-time bus information
bus number
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/ Bus Beacon System When the visually impaired need to know bus information, they can decide to use their Audio Braille Device to connect to the Intelligent Blind Bus Stop by Bluetooth technology to listen to real-time bus information. Besides, when the visually impaired want to take a bus, they can key in desired bus number with the Auditory Braille Device to the Intelligent Blind Bus Stop to let the bus driver see their need.
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1. The visually impaired wants to take a bus.
2. The Auditory Braille Device with GPS will guide him/her to the bus stop via voice navigation.
3. The Auditory Braille Device connects to the Intelligent Blind Bus Stop. He/she can listen to real-time bus information.
4. He/she presses braille buttons to send desired bus number to the Intelligent Blind Bus Stop.
5. The bus driver can see his/her need from the Intelligent Blind Bus Stop.
6. Finally, he/she gets on the right bus.
wayfinding in practice
Classroom finding
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CLASSROOM FINDING sign & map design 2011 designed by Wan-Chi Chang, Yi-Yin Cho, PoHao Wang, Cing-Ah Hsu, Hsiao-Kuei Lin
Classroom Finding is a new sign and map system inside buildings to help people ďŹ nd right palce quicker.
Background & Motive New semester is coming. As a freshman student, it is hard for them to find classrooms in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) campus. We wondered what causes this kind of situation and it might be the same for vistors.
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Observation To begin our research, we asked Noreen, one of our teammates who wasn't familiar with the campus, to be the very first testee. Starting at the front gate of the campus, we asked Noreen to find E2318 & T2-307 in serial, since these are two of the important classrooms in Design Department in order for us to find out what problems the new comers will encounter. Then we found Noreen had no problem to find the way outside buildings; However, when she walked into the building, she felt annoyed and disoriented and totally spent more than ten times time getting to T2307.
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starting point E2 connects with T2 gate
E2-318
T2-307
Problem NTUST student 2 mins
Noreen 25 mins
Research & Analyze We appied the A-E-I-O-U Framework in our testing, and found some problems in the list below: 01 The edge between T2 and E2 is unclear. 02 The sign is not clear and enough. 03 People do not know their location. 04 People will be in bad mood and waste time.
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E nvironment O bject
A ctivity
I ndividual
NTUST CAMPUS THIS WAY
E2
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CLASSROOM
T2
Idea development & testing When testees was asked to go to T2-307, they tended to figure out the relation between E2 and T2. However, there was no other map or sign inside buildings except classroom numbers, and thus they spent lots of time confirming their location and finding the classroom. Therefore, we thought maps and signs were the main key to prevent people from getting lost. The goal of the design was that the map and signs were easy to understand and notice. We came up with several ideas, and each of them will be examined by asking testees who were unfamiliar with the building in NTUST to find T2-307 from E2-318 without telling them there were some maps and signs around them.
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01
X Map contains too much information that people were afraid of reading it. X People ignored the signs on the oor since they were looking up searching for the classroom number plates.
Testing
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X The map was too complex for people to memorize it.
Testing
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X People didn't recognize that different color tape stood for different building. X They didn't relate the color tape to the map.
Testing
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X Some people thought that this map contained too much sections that it may confuse people. X Some people didn't notice the color tape across the aisle. O The big E2 T2 EE did stand out from the map that people recognized it faster than usual.
Testing
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O This map gave people a big view of the three building, which didn't contain too much complex information. X The stripes were a little bit thin that people couldn't recognize it as corridors.
Testing
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X Map on the floor didn't catch people's eyes, many people missed the map without noticing it.
Testing
Final design & testing After so many examinations, we discovered there were some commons among those testees when they read maps and signs, so those characterisrics helped with our final design. 1) People would find their location right now in the map. 2) People remember the way by intersections and landmarks. 3) People would memorize the rough location then follow classroom numbers to find the destination.
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Sign design We designed signs with geometric shape and different colors to make information more organized so that people can quickly understand it. There are three kinds of shape to make up a sign : a circle, rectangles and triangles. The circle is set in the center and it represented which building the user is in right now. Extended rectangles from the circle indicate classrooms' direction inside the building. As for outer triangles, they point out the directions of other buildings.
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Top View
on the wall
on the oor
on the wall
Arrangement When the sign is at the important intersection, it is better to place it on the oor, or some people would misunderstand about orientation. On the other hand, if the sign is designed to indicate one or two directions, placing it on the wall would be better than on the oor because it is easier to attract users' attention.
Map design Based on previous ideas, the main purpose of the map design is to be simpliďŹ ed because most of people merely memorize the relative position of destination. As a result, the intersection in the map is shown as a big dot. Seperated classrooms are grouped into several sections, and passages are simpliďŹ ed as lines for people don't need to know how real path goes.
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Node
The important node in the building.
Path
Passage
District
classrooms
Landmark
stairs, Men's room, Elevator
Edge
boundaries between two buildings
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Arrangement People usually think there will be some informaiton near elevators and stairs, so it is better to put maps around those places. Besides, when people are in a insection, they would feel confused, and thus there should be a map. The map should be placed at the same height of man's eyes. When people are trying to find a classroom, they would seek classroom's number and some information on the wall. People pay more attention on the wall than the floor. Also, most of people think the information on the floor is signs instead of maps.
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RORO JUG jug 2011 designed by Wan-Chi Chang
RoRo Jug is designed to help pour water more smoothly.
Problem When people try to pour water from a jug full of water, it is not only hard to hold, but also hard to balance the jug and then water would easily slop over.
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Concept RoRo Jug has a metal base which carries the weight of the jug and provides it with a rail to rotate, and thus the user can balance the jug and rotate the jug to pour water without great effort.
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mg I need water
Feature RoRo Jug carries the water as its energy. When the jug is ďŹ lled with water, due to gravity, no matter how to place it, it will keep standing. On the other hand, when there is no water in the jug, it is easy to fall down and it reminds the user to add water into it.
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BLINDJOG concept design 2012 designed by Wan-Chi Chang, Wei-Chung Shu
2012 iF concept award 2012 winner (top 100)
Blindjog is a sport product which makes it possible for the visually impaired to jog by themselves.
Problem Jogging is an easy-learning exercise which almost has no age and space limit. However, for visually impaired, due to vision loss, they must need a companion for safety. Furthermore, the reason why visually impaired feel discouraged might be the thought that will bother others or hard to cooperate with other unfamiliar sighted person or volunteers.
earphone
Solution Because of sight loss, visually impaired are sensitive to sound. Therefore, the idea is that visually impaired can follow the certain sound to head in the right direction. It is made up of three parts – earphones, two anklets and sensor plates, which make sure that visually impaired stay on the track and heading in the right direction. The system uses RFID technology and the Bluetooth technology.
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RFID BLUETOOTH sensor plate
anklets
(RFID receiver)
(RFID tag)
How to use When two anklets comprising RFID tags are detected by sensor plate which contains RFID recevier, the sensor plate will send message to the earphone to tell visually impaired people if they are on the runway by giving a sound signal. The back speaker will make a sound with frequency so that other will know their location. Furthermore, When sensor plate detects a tag, the center of the sensor plate will light up at dawn or night.
earphone
no sound
left sound
right sound
anklets
sensor plate
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SMART learning device for children 2012 designed by Wan-Chi Chang
cooperation projects with AU Optronics Corp. (AUO)
SMART is a learning device with an AMOLED screen for children to discover the world. It helps children seek creatures and give relative information. Children can record their ďŹ ndings and share them with their parents and friends. The user can also bend the device to operate and storage it.
Problem Nowadays, children prefer to stay inside to watch TV and play video games rather than to go outside. Besides, because of advanced technology, virtual things are becoming more vivic and they give children more visual and exciting experience, and thus it leads to a strange phenomenon that children know more unreal things than real life creatures.
Insight I think the role of technology is to assist people to know more about their world, not to take people away from our living environment. As a result, I think the best solution is to combine both advantages to help children discover the real world with more fun.
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Idea sketch The goal of the design is that children can go outside to discover, so the ideal product would be a mobile device. Using the exible characteristic of the AMOLED, the device can be wore on the wrist, but due to the size of the display and the material, it will make the user uncomfortable if he/she wear it for a long time, and thus the device is wore on the neck with a rope.
Scenario Children go outside to have an adventure with SMARTs. They heard a bird singinig, and then use the SMART to ďŹ nd its location and know the breed. They can also bend the SMART to zoom in and out to observe creatures. Finally, children can share their ďŹ ndings with their parents.
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Prototype The prototype is made of paper and soft board to simulate the silicon material and to confirm the size and test the operation.
3D model After verifying the size and operation, it's time to think about the detail design such as how the hook attaches to the device and how many parts the device has. Besides, because silicon can't be painted, so color planing should be adjusted.
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Final model After verifying the size and operation, it's time to think about the detail design such as how the hook attaches to the device and how many parts the device has. Besides, because silicon can't be painted, so color planing should be adjusted.
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Interface
Searching
The index is designed as a plate. The central circle represents the fuction which is working right now, and the outer icons are ďŹ ve main functions : searching, sharing, library, photographing, ďŹ les
This fuction can indicate the creature's location by the sound. Also, it will mark common animals and plants' communities on the screen so that children can explore easier.
Library
Sharing
The device can identify the creature in the camera and give information.
The user can share their findings to others.
Photographing
Files
The user can choose to take a picture or record a video when he/she finds something.
It keeps all pictures, videos and notes, and those files are categorized by theme or date.
Video
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COM
COMMERCIAL design
Eason Chan-《?》
CD cover design 2011
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Eason Chen is my favorite singer, and I tried to redesign his lastest Chinese album "?" because I thought the original design didn't match the album. Songs in this album gave people sad but peaceful feeling, and thus I used low saturated color and the combination of real and unreal images to express this album.
Weather girl (html)
website design 2010
Drawing is my favorite hobby. I love to scrible on paper. Therefore, I want to combine illustration style into my website so that the website will be like a notebook which records my feeling and works.
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Weather girl (flash)
website design 2010
Life of Pi
graphic design 2012
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After I saw this movie, there was a passion that pushed me to create this graphic. I wanted to keep that touching moment.
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ski SKILLS
Sketch
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idea
Sketch
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motorcycle
Sketch
exploded view
2D rendering illustrator photoshop
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cellphone
2D rendering illustrator photoshop
mouse
2D rendering photoshop
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car
2D rendering illustrator photoshop
exploded view
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3D rendering illustrator photoshop
heater
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