Shadows have the curious ability to facilitate conversations. We’ve all had heart-to-heart conversations with people in the dark; perhaps at a sleepover, late at night, or under the starry sky. Taking cues from this useful distraction of shadows, AURA seeks to enhance this experience at the tablescape, giving users something to focus on, thus -hopefully- making it easier to share. With its fresh colours and form, AURA playfully becomes a modern update to traditional candlelight dinners of the past.

Playpen seeks to turn stressful clinic visits into fun ones. The glass playroom doubles as the exterior, making the clinic easily identifiable even without signage. Graphics split at respective eye-level heights of children and adults allows for both colourfully vibrant and neutral informative graphics to co-exist in the space. The animal graphics serve as a confirmation guide for parents about locating the correct room, and negative space under the raised playroom doubles as pram parking space, while children can be easily monitored through the glass playroom. Selected aspects of the design are currently adopted by NUH Pediatrics Clinic A.

Designed with Lu Xiaoheng and Melvin Khng
In collaboration with Philips Healthcare, and National University Hospital (NUH) Children’s Specialist Clinic (Clinic A)