បទសម្ភាសន៍ជាមួយ Zhulin Shi

A common thread was found in my research, which is costumes can make a connection between movement, imagination and emotion. I attempted to design costumes that serves the bi-lateral relationship between Poetic Design and the Pattern Language of Dance.

Design thinking - "how can costume further link emotional experience to our mind?" and "how can audiences be more involved in the performance?"

Further expand it to other fashion accessories that can light up people's life.

6 months.

It is started from industrial design thesis at Pratt. It is related from my experience in dancing and choreography. I love dancing. I started dancing from 5 years old. The costumes like Cinderella’s dress gave me confidence on the stage. In 2011, I studied contact improvisation in UC Davis with famous choreographer Nita Little.

In 2018, “Sense Move” Costume has been applied in a multimedia opera – Semulacrum in New York.

Interdisciplinary background, integrating Industrial design, fashion design, design engineering, Choreography.

I did a lot research online. I feel many costume designers' works inspired me, such as issay miyaka's designs.

An multimedia opera.

“Sense Move” Costume communicates emotionally through the body movements of the dancers. It not only presents dynamic forms like a Kinetic 3D Sculpture, but also creates new geometric space for the dancers. The concept combing with expression form and material is very unique and experimental.

The costume can sense the people and move with them.

prototyping, sketching, draping, cutting sewing, sewing, soldering and programming

The concept.

Yin Mei, whose wise words “I can create an architecture space using my joints, which is already telling a story” sparked my inspiration. My initial concept is about geometrical folding following along with the kinetic movement of the body. In the beginning, I did some explorations with straws creating structures in different scales and connections. Finally, I was so excited to discover that the connected parallelogram can create unpredictable geometric forms with my body movement. I did tests on myself firstly. It not only changes with the body movement, but also creates new geometric space for the dancers. I put led light in it and tested it on Yinmei. She told me, “Holding it, I feel like I am getting some power, the dance movement is changed by it.”

Programing. I used installed pressure sensors connected with the led light and used audio to program.

I was struggled with different artistic transformable forms and constructions. I am excited to found out this smart form at end.

I want to share the design with more people. And I want people to hear my voice. The design presents me. It is one of my significant designs.

More exploration, more mock-up, more testing, and more efforts to connect and communicate with people.

I really appreciate everybody involved in this project who has given helps for me.

I am an Industrial designer, fashion accessory designer and artist. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design and a Master’s degree in Industrial Design Engineering from Zhejiang University, I completed a Master’s degree in Industrial Design at Pratt Institute in 2016. In 2014, I have worked with Marc Jacobs footwear design studio, I began to seamlessly blend two worlds of tech and fashion in the inter-disciplinary practice. Since then, I have gained experience working as a wearable product designer in the perceptual computing group at Intel, and a footwear designer in the innovation group at Cole Haan. From 2017 to present, I am working at Stuart Weitzman as an accessory designer. In my childhood, I was dreaming to be an artist. I always like painting and dancing.

In 2018, I launched Last Lab in New York. Last Lab creates pinnacle coveted accessory designs. Focusing on exceptional materials and construction, Last Lab combines a pioneering perspective to enhance people’s experience of moving in their life and to expand the boundaries of the art performance.

Design is to use smart way to life people's life, make them happy and inspire them in their daily life.

Exploring new stuff and mock-up.

Wow Water bottle. It is an unique folding water bottle design with an aesthetic movement. My initial concept is to make a transformation water bottle which is easy to carry. Then I obsessed about discovering different folding movements to get the goal as well as considering the people's different behaviors. With the elegant hand movement, Wow transfer from 2-D to 3-D, "WOW" .

At Cole Haan Innovation team, I designed women's shoe for displaying at the Cole Haan Oculus store. Inspired by the architecture of the Oculus Building, the heel catch the upper with an empty space to highlight the seamless technology of the upper.

Leather and tech material

Exploring new form and structure from a loose idea.

Concept. The Concept should be interesting and make myself happy first.

I feel invigorated, curious, challenged and amused.

Enjoyment.

The design create value in people's life. It is innovative, practical, making people happy and though-provoking.

The concept and presentation. Is it fresh to catch my eyes and touch my heart?

To help transform how we think, we can tackle underlying biases and prejudices that people may have but would be happy to be eased out of, say, fostering the sustainability, helping the disadvantage groups.

The "Design field" is embracing creativity and diversity. The future of design is change people's behavior, people's life and the world.

I held experimental “Sense & Sound” workshop and exhibited the Sense Move costume design at the New Musical Instrument Hackathon 2016 at the Spotify headquarters in NYC.

In 2011, I studied contact improvisation in UC Davis with famous choreographer Nita Little. With the experience in dancing and choreography, I started to ask myself how can costume further link emotional experience to our mind. Nita Little wrote “the ‘mountain’ moves and the ‘cloud’ changes as a result. Notice how our attention travels across surfaces while your awareness may slip into the volumes they contain.” A common thread was found in my research, which is costumes can make a connection between movement, imagination and emotion.

My design style is simple, emotional, giving "wow" moment to people. I found most of my designs can be transformable, create a dynamic form to give people a little surprise in their daily life.

I live in New York now. I feel the cultural heritage of my country didn't affect my design a lot, since I embrace the culture diversity in New York, and I wish the design can be universal in the world.

I will know the company's goal and needs first, and communicate and make proposals sometimes.

Based on the designer's portfolio to see if it match with the brand's style.

Come up an idea from my life or the customer's need, brain storm and market research, pick the good ideas and sketch or mock up, and evaluate the ideas and develop the design, make the tech-pack for the design with the detail concerns, in terms of the material, construction, then produce it, and do the user test and make corrections on the prototypes, then promote the design.

Celine's Box corssbody bag, Celine's Box pearl earring, SMEG toaster, iphone, MENU table lamp

Wake up at 7:30am - Work out in 25 mins - Cook and have breakfast - Check Emails - Communicate with the co-workers - Do some work for the company - Reading a book in 30 mins - Cook and have lunch around 1:00pm - Check the news and fashion trends - Have a work meeting - Do some design works - Have some fruits and yogurt at 5:30 - Dance/play piano - Have a shower - See a movie - Go to sleep

Practice more on foundation class. Don't be lazy! The more you practice and moke up, the more you gain later, one day your eyes will be sharper and know how to evaluate and improve your design by yourself.

I am happy to be a designer that I can use my creativity to make new products and use design thinking to solve the problems in my daily life.

Make people happy in their lives.

Vision, creativity, curiosity, professional design skills, communication

Photoshop, Illustration, rhino, keyshot

Set a deadline by myself.

Depends on the project. It can be few days or few months based on the customer's needs and budget.

How do you feel the design?

Working on handbag design for Stuart Weitzman.

Some accessory designer brands

Fashion accessory design. I love fashion and create my fashion statement.

Do more good designs, to improve people's life and make people happy.

When it comes to production and promotion, I usually work with a team.

I have design 2021 Chinese new year clutch recently.

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Have passion in your work!