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Some of My Projects

I am not allowed to tell you what I am working on but can you guess?    

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What is Carnaven? What does Carnaven mean? The story with how I ended up being Carnaven isn’t so complicated or some rocket science. I simply became Carnaven because I was

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Hungry Bugs I have always been fascinated by the collective intelligence and behavior ants have. Their ability to use different types of pheromone to communicate with each other locally, leading

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For Eyeo Festival 2011- I designed and developed a series of phyllotaxis graphics for Seed Media Group. The process was inspired by the original Seed logo designed by Stefan Sagmeister.

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RoboKline Project Collaborator | Jan Kokol, GSD, Design Robotics Group Franz Kline’s Black and White series serves as the inspiration for this project. How can a highly digital and automated

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I have designed a series of self-promotional cards. Each card includes a short resume on the back. I hope you enjoy them. And yes, if you take me, then I

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I have been working on an exhibition at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Here are the videos for the exhibition.

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Trig’r: Collective Perception of Architecture 2009 Thesis Abstract | In recent years, the advanced development of the web and the increasing success of digital camera technology have led to an

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Think (like) Tank This is a project dedicated to my new toy, the inductive toy tank. We work as a team to complete the design cycle. There are two parts

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    This is a project attempting to make a somewhat painful experience more pleasant and enjoyable. Why not making a nice rainbow painting with realtime stock market updates from

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Recently, I have become more and more interested in customized typography. I will try to experiment with different materials from now on and document them all in this post. Enjoy.

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Handy Knob The handy knob is designed to add more texture and warmth to the industrial-cold-style door knobs that I have at my apartment. Oftentimes, door knobs aren’t designed to

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Email spam is sort of like one of those unavoidable garbage that came with technology. In the old days, spams are like those flyers that people hand out in the

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My Type of Smiley Face Geometry is in everything. The inspiration for a typeface can come form anything and everything, a tree, a ladder, rocks, fish, people, old office supplies

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Venezia Architecture Biennale 2010 Italian Pavilion, Arsenale Images of Initial Implementation This was my first official interactive installation! It was constructed for the Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the

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London Museum of Science | Trash Fashion Trash Track was part of the London Museum of Science Exhibition “Trash Fashion”. For this exhibition, we deployed trash tags in London and

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The Springy Thingy (S-T) project introduces time and force into a 3d sketching environment, allowing a designer to intuitively sketch in 3d to create elaborate networks of spring-connected particles. These

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Me3D This post is another extension to the Flyfire project I posted earlier on. We are currently at the stage where we need to implement the actual physical components as

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Trash | Track Data Visualization Artist | Won 1st Place- NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Intro Imagine a future where immense amounts of trash didn’t pile up on

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Data Exploratory Tool Intro Studies for Aesthetics and Interface Design This is one of many options that we experimented with the data. Information is color-coded based on its type in

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Experimental Interface Design for Controlling Pixels in Space Intro I have been thinking alot about how to control those flying pixels in space. There are many types of inputs we

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Flyfire: Elastic Digital Canvas Concept Flyfire, a project initiated by the SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration with ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory) aims to transform any ordinary

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Two summers ago, I took a printmaking class and remembered how much I used to love getting my hands dirty while I was making art. I rarely used my hands

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My Architect Intro My Architect offers a global view of the presence and work of a selection of the world’s greatest architects today. Designed under the same principles and built

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Skutla I have always had this obsession for paper planes since I was small. Each paper plane is unique. It carries similar traits of its very creator and express those

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Pyrom: Burn Your Memory Away: One-time Use Video Capture and Storage Device to Encourage Memory Appreciation Abstract Nowadays, easy access to technology enables many of us to obsessively document lives.

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Stress OutSourced: A Haptic Social Network via Crowdsourcing Concept Stress OutSourced (SOS) is a peer-to-peer network that allows anonymous users to send each other therapeutic massages to relieve stress. By

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Ar In Tune: In tune with Architecture Flickr reflects popularity, point of interest, evaluation of and appreciation for the built environment on a global scale. Exploring how user-generated content on

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Raining Twitter Tears This is a simple application I did based on real-time twitter feeds. Each twitter tear droplet represents a tweet that is associated with words like “sad, heartbroken,

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RainOn: Droplet-Based Musical Interface and Sound Generator for Live Improvisation and Composition Concept Immerse yourself in the Age of Exploration while learning, examining and composing with natural phenomenon Abstract RainOn

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COLOR STIR FRY MIT Media Lab/ NCKU Nightmarket Workshop 2008 A mobile art project developed during summer 2008 with a group of students. This project consists of 3 parts which

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CastingAway: Playing with Light and Shadow Intro This was a spontaneous act. One sunny afternoon, while I was lying in bed, I noticed the light shining through the window onto

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Color of Sound: Handheld Musical Interface How Color and Light Change Our Perception of Space, Time and Movement in Architecture Concept All about Auditory Spatial Awareness “We shape our buildings,

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An Egg’s Worth A series of monoprints with various mediums and techniques Before When I was taking the printmaking studio, for each session, the instructor asked the class to bring

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Those are some pictures from the strobe photography class I took awhile back. After taking that class, I realized how much details our bear eyes are missing. The world is

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Recycled or found ordinary objects, hand drawing with marker or ink. Series of mixed media collages primarily using free or found objects on a 10×10 canvas. more to come…

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Penn Medicine, Center for Advanced Medicine by Rafael Vinoly Architects PC Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008 Healthcare Under Construction 670,000 sq meters- (7,211,880 sq feet) The Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine needed

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Cleveland Museum of Art by Rafael Vinoly Architect PC Cleveland, Ohio, 2012 Museum Under Construction 45,634 sq meters – (491,204 sq feet) This design won a competition for the renovation

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