UnBespoke Taonga Tēpu by Jeeyea Kim and Dorian Bybee is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Hiriwa in Hoahoa Toi me te Whakaaturanga Toi Competition Category.
HiriwaToi· 2020
UnBespoke Taonga Tēpu
by Jeeyea Kim and Dorian Bybee
Client: Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, Indiana University
A' Design Award Hiriwa Winner in Toi Category
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About UnBespoke Taonga Tēpu
He taonga tēpu wāhanga maha a UnBespoke, i hangaia mai i te kōhatu pākihi o Indiana. E whā ngā wāhanga kōhatu tapatoru kua hoahoatia hei pupuri i ngā rama tea light, i ngā tipu iti rānei. Ka taea te whakaraupapa i ngā wāhanga hei tapawhā rite, hei tapatoru rite, hei ētahi atu āhua rānei ka kōwhiria e te kaiwhakamahi. I ahu mai te hoahoa i te Panga Haberdasher, he raruraru pāngarau e whakaatu ana me pēhea te tapahi i tētahi tapawhā ki ngā wāhanga hei hanga tapatoru rite. Ka hurihia ngā wāhanga, ka puta ngā tapa ā-roto ngaru o te tapawhā ki te paenga o te tapatoru. Kua whakatauirahia te taonga ki te āhua 3D, ā, kua tapahia mā te miihini CNC.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Hiriwa
Ko UnBespoke Taonga Tēpu te toa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa taumata teitei rawa, ātaahua me te whakamīharo. Ko ngā toa Hiriwa he mahi tino kanapa, tino auaha e whakaatu ana i te mātanga, te pūmanawa me te mōhio hōhonu o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko UnBespoke Taonga Tēpu he mahi whakamīharo, he tauira, he tino ngaio, he auaha hōhonu. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Hiriwa he hanganga rongonui, whakamīharotia e whai wāhi ana ki te whakawhānui i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ko UnBespoke Taonga Tēpu he mahi e hae ana te tini, e whakaara ana i ngā hiahia, e kawe mai ana i ngā kare-ā-roto pai, ā, e whakaoho ana i te mīharo.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- UnBespoke is an investigation in to the use of a natural material, Indiana limestone, in the production of a contemporary design object and a modular table accessory. There are four triangulated stone pieces that are designed to hold tea light candles and/or small-scale plants. UnBespoke can be arranged in a variety of formation - from square to equilateral triangle or in any configurations as the user experiments with them.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 230 mm (width) x 230 mm (length) x 50 mm (height)
- Tags
- limestone, tabletop object, tabletop accessory, object design, candle holder, planter
- Production Technology
- Limestone has been used as a building material for thousands of years because of its beauty and durability, especially for many classical architectures. Our design goal is to produce a contemporary design objects in various scales using limestone, and UnBespoke has given limestone a renewed legitimacy as a decorative design object. Unbespoke is designed with an advanced 3D modelling and fabricated by CNC technology.
- Design Challenge
- The small scale of the design was challenging for fabricating limestone. The fabrication facility that we utilized for CNC is not familiar with such a small scale object product, so we had to convince the facility to fabricate with a extra care.
- Research
- UnBespoke is a small scale object design that continues to investigate our rigorous research utilizing a local material, Indiana limestone, in a wide array of contemporary design applications. UnBespoke brings a whimsical use of the material in a human living environment as the users have options to arrange as they intend.
- Inspiration
- The design stems from a famous mathematical problem, the Haberdasher Puzzle, how to dissect a square into pieces that can then be reconstituted into an equilateral triangle. When the pieces are rotated from the square to the equilateral triangle, the undulated interior edges of the initial square are revealed on the perimeter of the triangle. The design is also inspired by the previous project that utilized overlapping circles as a design language with a different metallic material.
- Project Duration
- The design process of UnBespoke started in April 2019, and hatiKB fabricated first prototype models in August 2019. The work has been exhibited through New and Next Exhibition in January 2020 at the Museum of Evansville in IN, USA.
- Operation Flow
- The basic formation is either a square or an equilateral formation of the Haberdasher Puzzle from which the design of UnBespoke was derived, but the users can arrange four stone pieces in a variety of formation as they experiment with the pieces.
- Team Members
- Jeeyea Kim and Dorian Bybee
Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design, Indiana University - Image Credits
- Photos credit of Jeeyea Kim and Dorian Bybee, and Anna Powell Teether Photography
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