បទសម្ភាសន៍ជាមួយ Unto

To express the brand's identity of experimental design.

The focus is to break out of the norm, from designing what goes on a name card to designing its function. Returning the essential function of a name card, which is connecting, and try to extend that.

It is our own branding identity, so the plan is to carry out its purpose for our studio.

From design research to completing the execution, about a month.

We are inspired by "The theory of Six Degrees of Separation" which navigates as the primary concept in design thinking, you may read the details in our design brief. But long story short, we believes a name card is at it's most communication deliverance when passed over from a first-degree acquaintance to a second, meaning the person who receives the card shares it again with other potential clients or friends. Such a scenario is explored in the design.

It is for ourselves.

We liked the challenge, a desire for the unknown.

The interactive quality to the design.

Name cards, product wrapping and so on, have been all time necessary assets for brands and individuals to communicate. Also we aim to return and focus of the functionality of such, so we named this Unto Communication Tool.

Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign and Keyshot.

Our design suggests the card to be split into two and encourages the user to keep one and share one. The design aims to increase the connections that one name card can make, and one social networking scene could offer.

Yes, like we mentioned earlier, "The theory of Six Degrees of Separation" navigates as the primary concept in design thinking. Research as found that, in a world of 7 billion people, it seems that we are all connected by six or fewer acquaintances. And since internet networking has widely expanded our online acquaintances, the six people is lowered to four. Using the ancient way of advertising, word of mouth, this first-degree connection who received the name card is encouraged to extend the relationship to a second.

The challenge is trying to come up with ways to enhance the user experience of a name card, to be experimental on something so ubiquitous.

We both completed our BFA in Product Designs at Parsons The New School at New York.

Finding small solutions, but solutions nevertheless, to a world that has so many problems.

Choose, of course, Asian parents usually force you to not be one, so quite the contrary.

Not limited to any category, but we hope to design to last.

Know what moves you and strive to be better at it.

The greater the urge and attempt to achieve a harmonious balance between usefulness, functionality, aesthetics, means of production, and making an object or experience speak to our emotions.

Its only accurate to refer to Dieter Ram's "10 principle of Good Design", we cannot agree more.

The world has unsolvable issues, and it just throws one over the top, for instance, poverty and pollution. But good design can be small solutions, that builds towards making this world a better place. By tackling those unsolvable issues in any creative perspectives or just opening a new dialogue.

Design solutions to communities in need (mostly related to education, wellness and health issues).

A set of furniture

Theres plenty, to speak of some: Dieter Rams, Oki Sato and Tadao Ando.

We are a fan of objects that speak for themselves, one of our favorite design is Rams’s wall-mounted audio system. Comprised of two speakers, a tape recorder and a control unit, it was first made in 1964. The form is so simple with the intuitive functionality. The quiet appearance and tactile detail make the product shines for generations.

Stop being a designer, try to be a user, a craftsmen, a manufacturer. And soak up this world of information but stay tune and refine what you choose to put on your plate.

Psychologist or recently i am thinking an awful lot on farming.

A creative communication with aesthetics.

Start from bring a user, the end receiver, the manufacturer, anything but the designer.

Design sets the trends, for sure, a good design is meant to last and serves as classic.

Think we’d be emotional. Passionate and feel inspired.

The studio started as a collaboration between Angela and Mish, back in 2014 where they obtained their BFA in Product Design at Parsons The New School, New York. They have since been developing a cohesive body of work in fields of product, communication and spacial design.

We perceive our role as bridges that connects different fields and perspectives, linking between crafts, industry, objects, users, between people and the nature we live in including the historical, political and social forces that have shaped our environment. Therefore, design is finding what seems to one as an appropriate relationship and realizing that in a beautiful manner.

We like to design things with a poetic touch.

We are a fan of objects that speak for themselves, one of our favorite design is Rams’s wall-mounted audio system. Comprised of two speakers, a tape recorder and a control unit, it was first made in 1964. The form is so simple with the intuitive functionality. The quiet appearance and tactile detail make the product shines for generations.

Branding and interior design for Japanese cuisine in SoHo, Manhattan

We are excited to be in contact with various of materials that our project should lead us to. But often times we find ourselves coming back to what have always been the familiar building blocks such as wood, glass, stones(minerals) and ceramic.

When challenged. That is when creativity is called for, in a circumstance that a solution is needed and resources is limited.

It would be design research, and trying to think out of norms in order to find a fresh and suitable answer for a solution to better user experience.

The strong desire for the unknown.

The exclamations of joy.

When the object or experience is made better, by finding a harmonious balance between usefulness, functionality, aesthetics, means of production, and most of all speaks to our emotions.

If the design brings anything valuable or interesting to the table.

Designers are repositories of desire. They vitalize the imagination and drive consumption. They inspire the world to see things be different and believe we can progress toward that imaginary world to making our dream comes true.

Design plays a fundamental role is sustainability because its the design that determines which resources are employed and how they are used. Design field after post war was aimed to make life better, nowadays we are in an unbalance designboom and great consumption. The future of design should take the responsibility to fix the issues, make the value of reduce, reuse and recycle to construct a healthier world.

Tokyo, Japan in Spring 2019

Taipei, Taiwan in summer 2020

We are the designers who propagates to work in sync with nature.

We design by constantly challenging the way we perceive things, and hoping to bring fresh dialogues and perspectives. We want our design to speak for itself, and so not adding too much characteristics if not necessary. In the style language, we take on a style that is rather minimal, and usually nature inspired.

Growing up in multicultural background, and currently back in the hometown, Taipei, it has been repositioning ourselves to discover the roots that's part of our identity.

Life is a rollercoaster we all learnt from struggles.

Meditation, research, sketching, model making.

We feel like the design does not separate work from life, it is interweaved together and by managing the time is to find the balance of soaking up life and inspirations, could be small things or a planned trip, and being diligent and on top of deadlines at the same time.