Interviews with Lihsing Wang

I was born in a family full of art and design, my father who is also an Industrial designer influenced me a lot, and my mother is an oil painter artist taught me how art can shape the world.

Usefulness is the most essential part of my design and collaborates with innovative technology such as digital fabrication to create unity and complex forms.

Mixed emotions.

My family.

My design studio will lunch a new homeware product that is designed with algorithms made by 3D printers in 2022 spring. Keep in touch!

Work hard and don't give up.

Design, design, and design.

Social media like Instagram.

People are still using this design for many years or even generations, the timeless classic design.

Design always has room for progress, it's will never end.

The "Body Voice" design project took 12 months to produce.

Raymond Fernand Loewy.

I was born and rase in Taiwan but my design style is fusion.

I'd like to work with people with clear minds and who know what he/she is doing.

Producing good products both benefic to people and environment.

It's was a fun and interesting experience, because I can know my score before submitting my work, this feature gave me more chances to revise my work for a higher rate winning the prize.

The uwu design studio aims for high-quality production, waste reduction and cost efficiency in production. In order to achieve that goal in the ribbing vase project, I adapted the use of 3D printers and computational software, Grasshopper. After several rounds of testing, I figured out using default slicer software to generate G-code for print is inefficient. Instead, by utilizing G-code directly in Grasshopper allows me to fully control the 3D printer and optimize the production. More specifically, the scripted data transforming my design into a series of curves and paths have turned into the assigned route of the 3D printer. As for the material used, ribbing was made from metal-filled metal filament, HTPLA.

The ribbing vase will be launched in early July 2022 only in The United State region. We provide the ribbing vase options in two sizes and three materials on each that are copper, iron, bronze. And the small size will be available on the dates above but the large size will be available in August 2022 or later.

The ribbing vase is a branch of design in my continuous research on digital manufacture topic starting from 2019. Although this is an ongoing research, this ribbing vase project took about a year to develop.

This project is the first product for uwu design studio. Our goal is to embody warm, delightful and amiable feelings into the products and share it with our customers. uwu focuses on commodities designed and manufactured using general 3D printers to achieve in-house production.

The making process attains zero waste, zero emission, fully sustainable and self-reliant action by implementing additive manufacturing technology into our production pipeline. Ribbing vases need to fit in 3D printers without any support material and can be manufactured on a small scale by consumer-driven 3D printers. We would also love to support regional markets by manufacturing our products locally. Thus, the ribbing vase was fully designed, manufactured, and assembled in Brooklyn, New York.

Since 3D printing is getting more accessible for people and designers. Companies and small studios started to mass-produce their product using the 3D printer and selling on the market. This idea,using 3D printers into production, not only saves energy on transportation but is also beneficial to young entrepreneurs for starting their business by reducing investment in the three party manufacturing company and gaining more control on production.

Uwu design studio’s target audience is young women pursuing unique styles.

Ribbing vase is not just another 3D printed product in the market. In fact, this is a brand new manufacturing framework taking computational design into account for optimizing the product’s quality.

The Ribbing is inspired from the rib knit, a soft, flimsy and stretchy fabric type.

Rhino, Grasshopper, various GH’s plug-in, 3D printer, python.

Ribbing vase as a floral display medium also speaks for itself with binary visual language in any spatial setting. Its vertical ribs pattern change their contour as they adapt along the curvy shapes, creating a constant momentum on a solid surface.

3D printing plays an impotent role in mass producing this product.

In order to manufacture ribbing vases with high-quality production, waste reduction and cost efficiency, I adapted the use of 3D printers and computational software, Grasshopper. After several rounds of testing, I figured out using default slicer software to generate G-code for print is inefficient. Instead, by utilizing G-code directly in Grasshopper allows me to fully control the 3D printer and optimize the production. More specifically, the scripted data transforming my design into a series of curves and paths have turned into the assigned route of the 3D printer.

More press features for my work is part of the reason but most importantly is getting feedback from academy awards.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Never be satisfied, and always push yourself.

Although music and dance are two art forms, dance often follows the rhythm of the music. The dancer’s creation is based on others, musicians, and work. It is contributed to a second creation. What if dance is no longer a movement that follows the music but creates music? The body voice subverts the conventional relationship between music and dance, redefines the possibility of free creations by analyzing dance’s movement, and converts it into music.

This award is a milestone for this studio and myself, it will encourage the team to develop more good products in near future.

Six months.

Initially, I want to challenge exciting designs for their justification by rethinking their relationship with users. And subvert it with a new design that benefits more people.

I'm willing to share my work with people who have the same vision and goal as me.

Art of music and dance are two important elements in my life, they help me through bad moods and difficulties. So I like to contribute to their community with good design that helps artists create more work.

I appreciate my professor and friend who advise and assist me on this project.

Dancer and musician.

If dancing is no longer a movement to follow music but to create music? Music and dance, in the general point of view, usually follow the rhythm of the music. Our brain processes the signal of music and reacts through the body. However, is it possible to reverse this process? In other words, our dance movements or gestures can create sounds and music? The Body Voice is a set of digital devices for dancers to create music through their dancing. Driven by technology, a wearable instrument reveals new possibilities in the art of dance.

"Body Voice" is the name that simple and easy to understand the concept that dancing movement from dancers body can create sound and music, its creating process is smooth as how we speak to make voice.

Rhino 3D, Arduino, unity, processor, fusion360.

The Body Voice is driven by technology, a wearable instrument that allows dancers to create music through their dance moves. Body voice is a set of designs, including the Clips, an App, and a Bluetooth speaker. The wireless Bluetooth clips are motion sensors that clip anywhere on dancers' bodies to collect their movements digitally and send them to the mobile phone. The user modifies it on an App where converts movements into music and plays it on the Bluetooth speaker.

Body Voice implement wireless technology and various sensor to accomplish its function. Thus, technology plays an important role in this design.

In the most beginning, I considered hands as the way to express body emotion. Thus, I decided to design a product that can detect hand gestures and movements. Gloves, I used several sensors inserted in them for capturing the movements of hands and sending the electronic signal to a computer for analyzing the gestures guided by the specific sound effect. However, after testing this prototype on dancers and receiving feedback from them, I decided to use a different way to capture the dance move; finally, using a clip function as a motion detector gained great feedback from the users.

Good design needs to be shared and needs more people involved.

Learning different skills beyond industrial design discipline.

Participating in an A' design compitition was a fun and interesting experience because I can know my score before submitting my work, this feature gave me more chances to revise my work for a higher rate winning the prize.

Initially, is my family educated me on what design and art are, and I later grew more interested in them.

Kind of both.

Design products that serve a purpose.

Work hard and play harder. Make a fine plan before starting your work.

Good designer product useful products help people live easier, a great designer's work made people reflect on living.

People are still using this design for many years or even generations, the timeless classic design.

A good design introduces a good style of living. It educates users for a better life.

Mindful product for everyone.

Create a spaceship.

Think outside of the box.

My father.

Moka pot.

The Body Voice project took 12 months to deliver the final model, it took me a lot of time to polish its design and forms.

A writer.

Design is making tools. These tools make people's lives better.

My family.

Practice, hard work, and a little piece of luck.

Be clear and transparent for themself and their users.

A series of new HomeGoods design sales is coming up next year, let's keep in touch.

To design a product that changes the world.

You would begin to see things differently and think from various prescriptive.

Design change how people live then shapes society.

The algorithm adds design and digital fabrication are two themes I'm currently working on.

Every design.

More empathy to users.

A fusion and cross-field profession.

It depends. Usually three months.

Search for similar excited or relevant products.

Make a plan before starting your work.

Assistance, an extension of myself.

Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Fusion360.

The soul of design.

I'd like to know the process behind your design.

How does the designer think to come up with this idea?

I'd like to work as a team, people with various personalities provoke great ideas.

My father.

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

Work hard and never give up.

The future myself.

No, everyone has their five mins.

Black, blue, and white. Japan. Winter. New Year. West elm.

Doing design is always fun and joy.

Stay curious about everything and keep learning new skills.

The near future is predictable. But the future in thousand years from now is hard to say.

There will be a new product lunch next early year 2022, keep in touch.

Lihsing Wang's design studio started from 2018

To me, "Design" is the thing that made life easier and happier.

"Creative"

James Dyson's products.

PLA/3D printing

Every moment.

Interesting

I have very mixed emotions when I design. It very depends on the design I'm working on.

Hard work, talents, and "luck".

People are still using this design for many years or even generations, the timeless classic design.

Every design needs to have a purpose.

Digital making

2021- 40 x 40 International Design Exhibition Istanbul

Everywhere.

Futuristic, humor, contemporary.

I was born in Taiwan now living in New York.

Work hard and don’t give up

There's no easier way except keep trying and never give up.

Every design is unique and so do the process.

All designs at my home are my favorite.

" Hello World :) "

Work hard and play harder.

There are no negatives after being a designer.

Design useful things.

Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Fusion360, 3D printers.

I always write a to-do list and estimate finishing time before digging into work.

Hard to say, it can be from 1 min to a lifetime.

How much is it?

Every experience of works is important.

The Sample Room NYC, Tory Burch.

Sketching.

A series of new HomeGoods design sales is coming up next year, let's keep in touch.

Can't tall for now.

My email: B10210012@gmail.com