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West Elm

2020.10 - 2022.02

Selected furniture designs for Bedroom, Dining, Outdoor and Baby + Kids Catagory

Furniture / Product development

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Wobbly World

An educative, exhibiting space designed in the theme of balance and unbalance for kids age 5+ and their adults to explore and have fun!

Experience Design/ Exhibition

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Pebbles

Shelf turned curatorial space. Furniture that can be responsive to different needs.

Experience/Furniture

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Mini Guide

Research booklet on living space re-arrangement. Provide insights as well as activites to follow along.

Experience/Strategy

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Pebbles

With a new perspective to the traditional mental health device, Pebble incorporates tactile, sound and light into the design.

Experience/Furniture

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Robot Buddy

A proposal to help children develop good habits when interacting with digital tablets.

User Experience/Product

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Watering Can

Designed for the chosen brand Muuto, this watering can inherited the simple and friendly value from the brand while draws an elegant silhouette.

Product/Prototype

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Toy Car

Design a toy car and a controller along with the package idea for the whole set using Rhino.

3D Modeling

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Modus

An app that builds a community for the artist and the learner through the process bridge. Learn, interact and get inspired by the artists.

UI/UX

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Psst Passwords?

An accordian handmade book about the history of Prohibition. Take a peek inside and you might discover something interests you.

Artist Book

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Slide Aside

Focusing at bringing a warm and simple perspective to the home setting, this table features two sliding top panels.

Furniture

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Mimosa Chair

An experimental project on finding a solution for eat-out solo dinners in contemporary society. I decided to do a chair that will close up when it is being sat on to provide privacy and warmth.

Experimental Furniture

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Website Redesign

A short exercise project to re-organize the hierarchy of the landing page for the Huntington Museum.

UI/UX

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Form Family

Designed around the two key words elegant and sleek, these three forms were created to best express my understanding of the words.

Form making

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ID Triennial

Managed projects for the triennial show and created various graphic elements to frame a cohesive concept.

Graphic/Poster

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Hope Bird

Arrange both written information and graphic elements utilizing a hierarchy structure within a grid to lead a visual paths.

Graphic/Poster

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3D Renderings

Communicating ideas through rendered visuals.

3d Modeling

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