Graduating Batch 2013

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Projects

01 Charcoal Things

Charcoal has traditionally been used as a purifying agent, and it is commonly used to reduce odours and organic compounds in a domestic setting. Utilizing charcoal’s high absorption properties, a series of air cleansers have been designed to take the form of an everyday object. Disappearing into its specific context, in the manner that air often seems to disappear from our consciousness.

02 Doors

Doors is a collection of toys designed for kids, which evokes the imagery of various animal house dwellings. Through the concept of “A Door to Another World”, a blackboard space behind the door is designed such that children can draw and create their own wonderland. Doors can be easily mounted and detached, allowing kids to plant their imagination anywhere they wish.

Designed with Xiao Qing Yu

03 A Wooden Penknife

A hand-crafted penknife with a wooden handle. Contemporary penknifes are often made out of either metal or plastics, exuding coldness and conveying a sense of foreboding. This penknife seeks to introduce some warmth into a seemingly inanimate object and to rediscover and establish a relationship between human and tool—one in which tools are truly extensions of our arms.

04 Plumes

Plumes is a pendant generated from a computer-controlled algorithm using a parametric software. Inspired by the feathers of a bird's wing as it takes off in flight, the outcome is a pendant that challenges our notions and preconceptions of what a pendant should look like and how it exists.

In collaboration with Design Incubation Centre

Ng Joon Yan
ngjoonyan@gmail.com