Bamboo Chair

This is a material driven product design project. After careful investigation of bamboo properties, I designed a lounge chair utilizing the flexibility and strength of bamboo. The chair can be easily assembled and disassembled, and thus is feasible for flat-packed…

Origami Chair

A form driven furniture design project – origami furniture. The idea of this project was to learn from the form and philosophy of origami and bring them to furniture design. This armchair is inspired by the one-fold technique, and it…

Dining Chair

One problem I am confronted when dining is that the things in my pants pockets always keep me from leaning forward, so in this dining chair design, a side pocket is added to place personal items / newspaper / magazines.…

Museum Chase

What defines a home?

This is a research project focusing on exploring the material landscape in young adults’ homes. It consists of 3 experiments:
1. A survey of what the functions and necessities are for a home and what feelings are associated with…

What is design?

A discussion on “what is design” occurred amongst a small group of industrial designers and graphic designers. To us, design is what we do; to non-designers, design is cool / fun / hip / magic. We articulated ourselves through this…