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ADMIN SKIN Sensing Things Problem solving for the skin perfectioning in relationship with ordinary life Open End Research/ User Experience researches/Modelmaking/ concept generation/ 3D CAD/ Renderings
Spring 2019
ROLAROLA Collaboration/ Concious Home
Contemporary homeware design studio project Color, Material & Finishing/ Prototyping/ Model-making/ 3D CAD/ Rendering
Spring 2019
MIMITISME Biomimicry
Promotion in increasing survival ratio of Salix Mongolia that ameliorates desertification in inspriation of the bio-mimicry features in Namib Desert Beatles Open End Research/ Mode/making/ 3D CAD/ Renderings
Spring 2018
NICHTPRECHEN Emergency Design
FALL 2018
Created a fixture that facilitates with the Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedure for inexperienced bystanders in emergency situations Open End Research/ User Experience Researches/ Model-making/ 3D CAD/ Renderings
CASA TEQUILA Concious Home
Contemporary Mexican tequila ceremony set design inspired by Barragan Color, Material & Finishing/ Prototyping/ Model-making/ 3D CAD/ Rendering
Spring 2019
ADMIN SKIN Problem solving for the skin perfectioning in relationship with ordinary life
Back ground
People are obsessed in taking care of their skin, while they do not know about their skin, and do not know the proper way in taking care of their skin.
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Personal Status Physiological Cycle Enviornmental Impacts The solution is to create Admin My Skin. The project is created with two parts: The device and the app, which is able to collect datas of the enviornment at the same time keep records of the customer’s personal status. All informations will be uploaded in letting people understand better in their skin condition
Enviornmental Impacts
Acknowledgment
Temperatures; Air Quality; Humidity, UV etc. Wearble device that monitors the surrounding enviornment instantly
Personal Status
Stress; Sleep Condition; Mood; Stress; Nutritions
Physiological cycle Hormone effections
Multipurpose
Wearble device that monitors the surrounding enviornment instantly
On the Ear
On the collar
On a chain as a necklace
The product detects particulate matter and other elements in the environment the individual travels daily, then gives out all datas and suggestions for people to understand how to protect their skin.
Air Quality now had become a severe problem in modern society? One of the most harmful airborne pollutants with respect to human health is particulate matter. Airborne particles with a diameter of less than 10 microns (PM10) pose an especially large risk: they can travel deeply into the respiratory system, causing a variety of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Combustion (e.g. burning wood; automobiles) can generate particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5). Between 2.5 and 10 microns are particles such as dust, pollen, and mold. People are often exposed to toxic chemicals living in urban areas. There are particulate matter (PM) along with ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2) ) that pollutes the air daily. According to the world health organization, 92 % of people around the world live in cities that do not comply with the “WHO air quality standard� that causes skin issues.
User Testing For understanding people’s attitude in creating the device with multi-functions, a user testing is created. By showing people two designs with similar functionings, the subjects are able to score the two designs Subjects Focusings: People that highly paid attention to their skin quality; The found testing subjects in Sephora, specifically focused in ones with the membership of VIB Rouge (spending over 1000 USD in beauty products). 12 subjects are tested with 6 men and 6 women. 8 of the 12 subjects are members of Sephora’s VIB Rouge program.
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Coloration Refresh Pastel:
Pink Crystal and Neo Mint had been selected to work well skincare and beuty categories with its soft tinted tones with chalky finishing appeals Millennial consumers that “Add a darker twist to this fresh colour palette with an accent of Sloe.
The New Dynamic:
The color ground yellow along with purist blue has been selected into the Colour Usage A/W 20/21 jewelry and accessory selection. The ground yellow with blue emerges as the a dynamic fashion accent transitioning from spring to winter.
Metalic:
Silver with Black coloring had become the trend in the recent seasons till A/W 20/21. The palette results with a metallic finishing. With a commercial appeal as a party season. Source:www.wgsn.com/content/board_viewer/#/81915/page/10 “
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The product should have the accessory looking that fits with the user’s everyday lifestyle. Aluminium Alloy
Andonic exidation treatment in coloration for accomplishing for color recreation.
Finishing
Sandblasted metal texture with CNC workmanship
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PCB The approximate for the design would be 2”*1/2”, and should have the capacity in sensing and detecting ultra-violet, humidity, temperature and toxic elements as particle matter 2.5, particle matter 10 and methan in the air.
By understanding the needs, the most idealistic PCB board found would have the size of 1.5”*1.7” in detecting the enviornment with the laser and air channel in the fixture.
PCB Board For Display
The display set is capable in keeping records of all the categories in sensing the toxic air at the same time inserts a display screen for showing customers in the instant air quality
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CB Board
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User interface The user interface design keeps record of the daily skin condition at the same time connects the sensing device for data uploading. With the application, the user is able to recognize all informations that facilitates in managing in the improvements of skin condition.
01 Skin Report
02 FACIAL ANAlyzing
After taking the selfie, the s gives out the results with categories: Pores, spots, w and texture. The system then rates its from poor to very good.
By pressing the “read more“ o there is a more detailed expla of the user’s skin conditio helps them understand th better
The app then asks the users to scan their face with extention using the camera (or photo). After taking the picture (upload a selfie), the system is able to analyze the user’s skin condition instantly.
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03 Finalization
Then the app gives out 5 options to fit for the user’s preference
The app then asks the user about their expectation for understanding better about their needs
04 Home page
When entering the home page daily, the user may choose in taking a selfie for keeping their daily record for their skin diary The selfie makes the system anaylzes the user’s skin condition. The results can be read in the skin report down below.
The skin report rates the uses’s skin quality with an estimation of skin age for better acknowledgements. It also demonstrates skin quality with three categories: Spots, wrinkles and pores for the users to understad what to improve.
For further informations, the user may explore more about each categories listed below with more detailing monitorings and history results
05 skin report
05 skin diary
The skin diary documents your personal status daily life. The category may be found in the menu in the upper left. Inside my diary, there are several questions been asked for the system to understand your condition better. On the bottom part, there is a brief summerization about your daily skin condition and air quality detected by the system. All the questionaries the user answered may later on be reviewed in the calendar session
06 device/ air quality analysis
The menu page has the section about the product device: which analyzes the air quality.
The device needs to connect to the app with bluetooth/ wifi connection.
After connection, the device gives out the air quality overview with seperate datas about different toxic elements. The system gives out informations of the instant, average and Maximum data of the particle matters
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For understanding more about the chemical elements, the app may automatically send the users to the wikipdeia page to know more.
07 calendar
The calendar keeps records of the user’s previous informations. These may show developments and improvements. There will be records of the air quality in that day to understand the relationship between air pollution and skin condition. Personal status may also effect skin quality, the app also keeps track with the user’s mood, sleep condition and physilogical cycle also in understanding whether if it effects the udser’s skin condition.
ROLAROLA Collaboration homeware project with Chen Zhang and Yu Haiqi
“I took a pill in Ibiza, to show Avicii I was cool.. “ owadays people are mostly dipped in a modern, mimimalitic style daily. These colors however cerates an indifferent atomosphere that creates suppression. In order to neutrualize this tension driven daily. The studio had decided to target the lifestyle to be relatively playful and relaxing. With the idea above, the studio took the inspiration from the ibiza island, which a party-like surrounding gives out a completely different feeling than lifestyles people experiences during daytime.
y creating this part-like surrounding in the house, our goal is to make our customers feel like living in an environment to be happy as last forever. As taking people toward the party island as a vacational environment, forgetting all the stressfulness exeriencing during work while they are still living in the city. For accomplishing this lifestyle, the studio intended in using saturated coloring with insprations of playful elements exsisting in party scene in emphasizing this relaxing and whimsical feeling.
For the main concept designing, we had used inspirations of the Memphis stye in expressing the design with a neat simple linebase and organic shapes that is aesthetically appeasing
Product Presenting
Plant Decor ROLA ROLA Designer Zhang Xinyi
Umbrella Stand Margarita Designer Chwen Zhang
Container Box SLIDEEE Designer Yu Haiqi
Ideation: Plant Design/ Decor Playful Inspiration: seesaw/ outdoor, backyard environment Terms: Colorful/ whimsical/ simple shape Location: Doorway/ Entrance Styling Considerations: Menphis Style; Dadaism; Surrealism at the same time combines with modernistic pastel ideations.
Considerations of plant’s type, shape, colors that all needs to fit with the design, not just the container. Plants had static feature, try putting in ways in making it more interactable with human with simple motions or mechanisms. Ideation in playful elements, minimizing and fitting the features (seesaw or swing as balancing or rotation) while making it functional with the design than a simple decor.
Rotate 180 degrees for user interaction/ watering
Static display daily
The finalize deisgn for the plant decor created user interactions when watering the plant. The fixture is mounted onto the wall with the capability in roatation. By rotating the fixture into 360 degrees, it is able to flip into an opposite direction for the water down below to water the plants taht was usually above. The fixture had created a whimsical idea for placing the plant upside down in most time periods that is playful and creates a brand new perspective in looking at the plant daily.
By rotating within 180 degrees, the fixture is able to water the plant instantly.
Divided Parts included in the Design
Rotates 90 Degrees
Axis placed in vertical position
Axis placed in horizontal position
The inner sphere pushes out into hollow on the outer pink shell
The hollow vanishes, the spring pushed teh sphere back into the hole on the white part
For acheiving ROLAROLA in placing static in two positions, an inner machnism is required in mounting the fixture. A simple mechanism with the help of a sphere and spring in mounting a fixed concave is designed on the axis part of ROLAROLA. This mechanism accomplishes the ability in placing static as the position desired.
MIMITISME
Promotion in increasing survival ratio of Salix Mongolia that ameliorates desertification in inspriation of the bio-mimicry features in Namib Desert Beatles
eople already started to use the technique by blowing vaporized water toward the irrigated farmland in which increased the survival ratio into 30%. Hence by creating a “protective sceening” the survival ratio reaches 90%.
By creating a “protective Screening” with the diameter of 30-50 centimeter and height of 40 centimeter may effectively facilitate the plant to grow for over 2 year period, in which led to its youth.
he technique is experimented by Chinese Academy of Sciences in Xinjiang Ecology and Geograph Institute, through proved to be effected, human maintenance is still needed in the progression for filling up water in a time period (the system above is also the solution in diminishing the time period of irrigation).
For dimishing irrigation times, or making haloxylon for self-sufficiency as natural ecosystems. A device may be used in order to facilitate the plant to live and grow by its own without addidtional human interaction.
Biomimicry roplets flatten as they make contact with the hydrophobic surfaces, preventing them from being blown by wind and providing a surface for other droplets to attach. Accumulation continues until the combined droplet weight overcomes the water’s electrostatic attraction to the bumps as well as any opposing force of the wind; in a 30 km/h breeze, such a droplet would stick to the wing until it grows to roughly 5 mm in diameters.
By adopting a head standing posture facing into the wind, the fog water collects on their Electra and runs down to their mouth, to be imbibed by the beetles.
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components A. Transparent Biodegradable material mimics
the Namib Desert Beetle features able to slip the water drops down to the fixture
B. Opaque material that effectively covers 50%70% of the UV light
C. Transparent material for giving 30%-50% of
sunlight into the fixture for necessary photosynthesis circulation
D. Opaque material that hides in the sand in
which protects the root with seldom necessary nutritions added in the initial.
The fixture enhances and provides the same features as the ordinary protection screening has in addition adds up the biomimicry features from the Namib desert beatle. In this solution the features of the Namib Beatles that may
maximize the survival rate of the plant at the same time reproduces the initial humid enviornment without too much human interactions
sustainability By using biodegradable materials evertually decomposes the fixture while the Salix Mongolia turns mature with independence and a higher ratio of survival.
NICHTPRECHEN The CPR Kit is specifically designed for bystanders with no exmergency knowledges, giving them a simple method in effectively helpiing ones in need. By using this structure people maybe simply place it onto the patient’s chest giving out the position and informations needed for the procedure.
911
Usually when a person has a heart attack...
Only in seldom circumatances people may provide the initial Cardiopomonary Resuscitation (CPR) for helping
The first reaction for bystanders is to call 911...
The ambulance come and pick the person away to the hostpital
Usage
Based on the statistics above, the CPR procedure may be proved to be relatively low but effective, however, it is obvious to see the remarkably differences with or without in the later on healing process after survival
Nichtbrechen is specificlaly designed patient’s chest, then gives out instructions for bystanders with no emergency of the position and information needed in knowledges, giving them a simple emergency situations. method in effectively helping ones in need. This structure may be simply placed onto the
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components A. Frame (Top); White Resin B. Shell (Top); Clear Resin C. Display Screening; White Resin D. Body Part; White Resin E. Shell (Bottom); Clear Resin F. Frame (Bottom); White Resin
CASA TEQUILLA Contemporary Mexican tequila ceremony set design inspired by Barragan
exican people enjoy all kinds of ritual ceremonies that make people think them to be passionate about life. The Casa tequila set is intentionally designed with the modernistic Mexican styling with vibrant, neat elements as inspiration. Tequila has been the soul for Mexico, creating a unique process in drinking tequila with a similar process as the tea ceremony is the goal.
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Bottle
Display
he Tequila set is inspired by the architectural designs from Barragan, with its unique, vibrant colorings and space arrangements. Casa Tequila developed the steps for tequila as combing sea salt and lemon together,
Glass
Lemon Container
Sea salt Container
while the alcohol itself flows around all the spaces in the tequila set. Making the whole drinking process to be idealistic for all occasions, both spiritual and aesthetically appeasing
Place the bottle 90 degrees when not using
Place the bottle 180 degrees while using