A Dream Ewuwu Ọkụ Tabletop by Naai-Jung Shih

A Dream Ewuwu Ọkụ Tabletop by Naai-Jung Shih is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz in Nhazi Nkà Mma na Nkwụnye Nkà Competition Category.

BronzNkà Mma· 2017

A Dream Ewuwu Ọkụ Tabletop

by Naai-Jung Shih

Client: Naai-Jung Shih

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz Winner in Nkà Mma Category

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The Design

About A Dream Ewuwu Ọkụ Tabletop

Onye rụrụ ya tụlere nrọ na-enweghị oke ma dịkwa na anya. Enweghi ike ijide ya, ma odi ezi uche. Ọ haziri nrụnye dị ka ụzọ iji hụ ihe atụ nke ọdịdị nnabata ahụ na nrọ. Onye ọ bụla nọ na-atụgharị ụtụ na-enye aka na akụkụ nke nrọ na-agbasa. O debere ntọala ahụ ọhụụ na ntọala ọkụ na-enwu n'elu iji mee ka ọ dị ka ibu na-enweghị isi dị ka igwu mmiri.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz

A Dream Ewuwu Ọkụ Tabletop meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị pụtara ìhè nke a ma ama maka nzụlite ihe, ọgụgụ isi na nghọta. Ndị meriri na Bronz bụ ihe e mere nke ndị nwere nka nke ukwuu ma dị mma n'imepụta nke na-egosi ahụmahụ buru ibu, echiche na ọgụgụ isi nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na A Dream Ewuwu Ọkụ Tabletop ga-abụ ihe a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz na-agụnye ụzọ kacha mma n'ime nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ, ma dị mma nke ukwuu maka nlebara anya ya n'obere ihe. A Dream Ewuwu Ọkụ Tabletop na-emezu mkpa nke ọma, na-emetụ ọchịchọ aka, na-adọrọ mmetụta obi ma na-adọta ọchịchọ ịmara.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: A dream is weightless and transparent. It can hardly be caught, and yet it is so realistic. The entire setting is placed on a transparent base with a light source projects upward to make it feel weightless like floating in the air. The installation is also a metaphor of the surrealistic nature of a dream. Each curved linear form contributes to a part of a propagating dream.
Dimensions & Packaging: 80*70*35 cm
Tags: lighting installation, dynamic form, metaphor
Production Technology: The design needs a free-form linear member to mimic the blurred boundary of a metaphor. The member needs to be functioned like a canvas for a dreamer to paint upon. The color should be white. After a series of brainstorming searches, a hanger seems a perfect choice.
The installation is hand-chained. Several tests were conducted to the possible connectors, such as steel cables, abs RP filaments, and general ropes. Cable was a good choice at the first place because it held each hanger in position. But it is not transparent. Eventually a transparent 3 mm plastic string was used and surprisingly it held each member in position under tension.
Design Challenge: A pair of linear form is interlocked with two holes on each component for connection. There should be four cables and eight connections when the head and end of the installation meets each other. A new method is developed to layout all four cables on the same path and to chain all the components in one single cable as a closed loop. The development of a close loop has a significant meaning, since a dream seems does not have a specific starting point or ending point.
Research: This is the third design of a series sincerely devotions. Each design contributes a profound study of orders, for elements and light sources. The first two were conducted in a linear form to contrast the body curvature and the end section. The composition of different shapes was also applied. The last one selected a loop to represent an order of form.
Inspiration: The inspiration came from the metaphor of a dream.
Project Duration: This project took about one month and was made in Taipei, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: This light installation is designed to put on a table with the top part slightly lower than eye level. By following the profile, a person can traverse the entire setting inside and outside, up and down, or from any orientation. The relative location between the box and the installation is changeable.
Image Credits: all by Naai Jung Shih