Tear and Discover Kev Ua Yeeb Yam Duab Kos by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

Tear and Discover Kev Ua Yeeb Yam Duab Kos by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Tooj in Kev Kos Duab Zoo thiab Kev Teeb Tsa Duab Kos Competition Category.

ToojKev Kos Duab Zoo· 2022

Tear and Discover Kev Ua Yeeb Yam Duab Kos

by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

A' Design Award Tooj Winner in Kev Kos Duab Zoo Category

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The Design

About Tear and Discover Kev Ua Yeeb Yam Duab Kos

Tear and Discover yog ib qho kev tsim khoom ua yeeb yam duab kos uas muaj plaub yam khoom siv hauv tsev: ib lub speaker, ib lub teeb kev nyob deb, ib lub moos thiab ib lub cua ntsuab. Txhua yam khoom raug muab tawv nyuj los npog tag nrho, yog li lub suab, lub teeb, lub sij hawm thiab kev ntsuab ntawm cua tau raug zais cia. Yog xav siv ib qho haujlwm, tus qhua yuav tsum txiav lub npog tawv nyuj. Cov tawv nyuj thiab cov ntawv sau lus qhia txog nqi cim tseeb ntawm khoom lag luam, tab sis cov khoom nyob hauv qhov twg muab qhov nqi siv tau tiag tiag. Tag nrho cov npog raug muab tes puab los ntawm tawv nyuj 1.5 mm uas siv cov nplooj xyaw ntsuab (vegetable-tanned leather), thiab raug txhawb nqa los ntawm cov ncej hlau stainless steel. Qhov haujlwm no qhia txog kev sib raug zoo ntawm cim thiab kev siv hauv kev noj haus khoom lag luam.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Tooj

Tear and Discover Kev Ua Yeeb Yam Duab Kos yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Tooj, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev uas muab rau cov qauv tsim tshwj xeeb uas txawv los ntawm kev tsim tshiab, kev txawj tsim thiab kev ntse. Cov neeg yeej Tooj yog cov khoom muaj txuj ci heev thiab tsim tshiab heev uas ua pov thawj txog kev paub ntau, kev xav thiab kev txawj ua ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Tear and Discover Kev Ua Yeeb Yam Duab Kos xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub, uas tshaj lij heev thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Tooj no siv cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis thiab zoo heev vim nws saib xyuas cov ntsiab lus. Tear and Discover Kev Ua Yeeb Yam Duab Kos ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau zoo kawg, kov cov kev xav, ntxias cov kev xav thiab txhawb kev xav paub.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The work consists of four household products, speaker, floor lamp, clock, and fan, which are covered inside the leather. The leather and labels represent the symbolic value of the goods, while the functional components inside the leather deliver the use-value. This design emphasizes the contradiction between sign and function in the product consumption through a destructive interaction to 'cut' the signed cover and liberate the function.
Dimensions & Packaging: speaker,345*345*1427mm
floor lamp,372*305*1930mm
clock,455*140*100mm
fan，360*200*1610mm
Tags: art, craft, furniture, speaker, floor lamp, clock, fan
Production Technology: This work uses the leather wet shaping craft, the leather surface and stainless steel support form a strong visual tension. The whole set of products is all made of 1.5mm whole vegetable-tanned leather. After soaking for 8 hours, awakening the active protein of the leather and giving the leather better ductility. After it is wrapped on the shaping mold and shaped by hand, giving the product shapes a soft curve and organic sense.
Design Challenge: The most difficult part of this design is the expression of the mindset.
Firstly, how to express the idea through the design language? After many times discussion, The use of metaphorical forms of wrapping, highlighting and rupture, and contradictory interactions were confirmed.
Secondly, how to shape the leather into the form? This step took many material tests and prototypes before the final form was created.
Research: The work have taken the‘Consumption society’ as our research direction and the commodity as the object for our project. The design want to discuss the relationship between symbol, function, and commodity and reflected on the design. Through research the design aim to express the contradiction between symbolic value and use-value of products in the consumer society where signs are proliferating.
Inspiration: Living in the current era of consumption, symbolic consumption has gradually changed our mindset of on-demand consumption, and the functions of products have been obscured by the virtual signs created by capital. The endless pursuit of the sign has accelerated the waste of material. Therefore the work rethought the relationship among signs, functions, and design.
Project Duration: The project starts in November 2020 in Shanghai and is completed in 2021 in Shanghai, where it will be exhibited in June.
Operation Flow: The work covered by leather, functions are hidden inside——the sound is obscured, the light is covered, the time is hidden, the wind is blocked, in order to use the functions, the user needs to cut the leather through destructive interactions and destroy the complete leather the user's thoughts will be aroused during the interaction.
Patents: Jie Gao
Hengguang Wu
Team Members: Jie Gao
Hengguang Wu
Image Credits: Jie Gao, Hengguang Wu