이성용 | Seongyong Lee
designlsy@gmail.com
I like things look simple but thorough consideration behind.
I like things which are good to look at and can be used intuitively.
I respect the power of hand craft.
I respect the wisdom of mass production.
I wish my works can grow with appropriate functions, beauties and passions in everyday life.
2011
Nominated for "BRIT INSURANCE DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2011" in Furniture
http://www.designsoftheyear.com/2011/02/15/plytube/
2009, 2010
2nd and 3rd reselected for the New Generation Design Leader, KIDP
01.2009
Graduate directory 2009 by Wallpaper*
http://www.wallpaper.com/content/feature/graduate-directory-2009/
03.2008
7th New Generation Design Leader, Korea Institute of Design Promotion
etc
http://www.wallpaper.com/interiors/brent-dzekciorius-best-british-designers/4890
EXHIBITIONS
04. 2011
RCA INTENT, Milan
02. 2011 - 08. 2011
BRIT INSURANCE DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2011, Design Museum, London
09. 2010 - 01. 2011
Projectory, PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY, Saatchi Gallery, London
09. 2010
Valencia furniture fair, Valencia
09. 2010
Sustain award exhibition, RCA, London
08. 2010
Frankfurt Fair with British European Design Group, Frankfrurt
07. 2010
RCA degree show, RCA, London
09. 2009
100% Design future, London
05. 2009
Sunny memories, Lausanne
09.2008
Designers Block (London, UK)
09.2008
100% Design (London, UK)
05.2008
'I Am A Designer', Doosan Gallery (Seoul, Korea)
15.12.2007 - 26.12.2007
'Design Now-Trivial Reforms', Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum (Seoul, Korea)
18.04.2007 - 23.04.2007
Milan Fuori Salone 'Seoul Design Festival 2007 in Milan' (Milan, Italy)
10.2006~11.2006
Manifesto for Annual Design Exhibition 2006, Design Incubator, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum (Seoul, Korea)
10.2006
Seoul Design Festival 2006 'Young Designers Self-Promotion', COEX (Seoul, Korea)
12.2005
Design Korea 2005 Design Future Zone 'MOVIE ERA' LG Electronics, COEX (Seoul, Korea)
05.2002~07.2002
Seoul Museum of Art (SMOA) opening exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea)
WORKS
07.2009~08.2009
Ben Wilson design, intern, London
03.2008~06.2008
Studio Dror intern, New York
01.2005~05.2006
LG electronics design research center, Seoul
01.2004~ 02.2004
M.I DESIGN Intern, Seoul
09.2003~12.2003
Hyundai Motors, Industrial-academic cooperation project
06.2003~09.2003
Samsung Electronics Industrial-academic cooperation project
EDUCATION
July 2010t (London, UK)
MA in Design Products, Royal College of Art
July 2008 (Barcelona, Spain)
Introduction of Exhibition Design summer course, Istituto Europeo di Design
March 1998~February 2005 (Seoul, Korea)
BFA, product design & space design, Seoul National University
| RADII |
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Designers' template
Creation year: 2011 Material: Aluminium RADII has 12 different radiuses from 0.5 to 6.0mm on an aluminium hexahedron, and this will help product designers to predict the radius in real with touching rather than imagine on the screen and drawing paper. It is made by precise CNC milling process and the size is 18x18x50mm. buy at the Design Museum shop |
photo by Lingjing Yin |
| Creation year: 2011 Photographer: Soonhak Gwon Animator: Soyoung Hyun This work is my interpretation about how we perceive digital movie, and to use the thought for the curtain call project. If you magnify RGB screen, you will be able to see Red, Green, Blue included by grids. I removed the RGB, and left the grid only to project the grids onto people to make people become a part of installation. When people move, they look like dots moving. I could say the grids combined by small dots as high resolution, and big dots as low resolution. for Ron Arad's Curtain Call at the Roundhouse in London |
| Plytube |
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Wooden tube and furniture applications Nominated for "BRIT INSURANCE DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2011" in Furniture
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| 7.5 Color Space |
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Bookshelf
Creation year: 2008 Material: ABS, aluminum Some size of color is needed to provide vitality and a character into a space. I have found the appropriate angle 7.5 of a leaning object neither disturbing people moving nor being unstable itself. |
| Floater |
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movie1 movie2 Ladle Creation year: 2008 (initial: 2004) Material: ABS This unique ladle does not sink under water because of the empty ball and handle part. You do not even need to lean the ladle on a pot as well. IDEA student category, Bronze, 2009 IF concept award winner,2009 |
| Light and Sound |
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Lighting and Speaker
Creation year: 2008 Material: ABS, speaker units Harmony between light and sound. |
| ONIV |
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Candlestand, Vase, Oil Lamp
Creation year: 2008 (initial: 2006) Material: ceramics Sometimes, observing objects in new angles aesthetically and functionally gives unexpected joy. ONIV is a candlestand, vase and oil lamp inspired from the shape of a wine glass upside down. If you read ONIV from backwards, you would soon realize where this word originated from. |
| Apartment |
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Stackable Dishes Creation year: 2007 Material: ABS There are a lot of apartments in cities owing to the limited space reasons. I compared cities as tables, accommodations as dishes and people as food. As the food on a table is getting more, the dishes are needed to be stacked like apartment. |
| Tournament |
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Forks
Creation year: 2007 Material: stainless steel Forks look like the graph for a tournament competition system. Sponserd by Nike |
| ONIV |
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Candlestand
Creation year: 2006 Material: glass Sometimes observing objects in a new angle gives an unexpected joy of the discovery in beauty or function. ONIV is a work inspired from the shape of a wineglass upside down. In this way, the wineglass newly obtained both beauty and function. The upside down bottom is suitably shaped to put something on. Romantic union is intended by combining a wineglass and a candlestand. If you read ONIV from backwards, you would soon realize where this word originated from. |
| Static Table Set |
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Tables, chairs
Creation year: 2006 Material: mortar, connected tempered glass, iron bar Chairs and a table are interpreted as one part of a building in this work. I intended to create sharp image of this table set by using exposed concrete and tempered glass which are raw construction materials. The heaviness of concrete and clearness of glass are accentuated with static image of weightlessness. |
| Invisible Speaker |
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Speaker
Creation year: 2006 Material: super mirror, stainless steel, speaker units, wood This is a proposal for harmony between a product and a space. The mirror surface of this speaker reflects surroundings as if it doesn’t exist. Things attached to the mirror have an angle of 90 degree, forms of things therefore reversed and reflected, and the mirror surface is as if it disappears. Sound is reflected to walls, and the sound nondirectionally spreads. Hence, the existence of the speaker will be minimized. |
| Floater |
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Cutlery
Creation year: 2004 Material: new ceramics This product started from two main purposes. First, whenever you wash your dishes, you might have difficulties to find spoon as cutlery sinks deep down into water. Second, it is based on the idea of easy holding. Through making inside empty, it becomes rising to the surface of water like a float. Meanwhile, the spherical shape in the center acts as a supporter to help you when you cut and chop food with less effort. |
| Life to Dead Space |
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Lighting
Creation year: 2004 Material: acrylic Light, as a power supplier. |
| Circular Printer |
| Portable Printer
Creation year: 2003 Material: ABS, acrylic, bronze New printing system based on the circulating movement of the ink head. |
| Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), GOLD AWARD (2004 USA) |
