D.I. souvenirs - Rapid DIY Souvenir Fabricator Vending Booth

Project background

In a fast-paced society like that of Hong Kong’s, where stress is a common condition, for many a holiday means travelling abroad. “Travels are full of pleasant surprises. Today, travelling to other countries is more important than it has ever been” asserts Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler. Tourists come back home relaxed, with their energy levels recharged, and their heads full of happy memories they wish to share with family and friends. Returning from their travels, they want to remember their sightseeing, dining, playing, or shopping experiences, and bring back home tokens from foreign lands - aka souvenirs - to keep as mementos, or offer to loved ones as gifts.

Design Concept

Souvenirs range from the tacky to the beautifully crafted, and are often manufactured and branded as “authentically” extolling a country’s cultural identity, or as safely packaged foods or scents to be experienced back home. Most of the time tourists are not involved in the manufacturing of these objects. The “D.I. Souvenirs” rapid D.I.Y. souvenir fabricator vending booth allows travelers to fabricate their own travel tokens. Be the personalized “it” thing a stamp chop tourist/users design using the in-built touch screen and cameras, or an Augmented Reality printed postcard of a selection of local sights users select, to include within a 3D photo of themselves, using a similar touch-screen and camera interface. Users, friends and relatives may then display the printed postcard in front of any computer camera at home, to produce an on-screen 3D pop-up representation of the postcard. Do it, make your souvenirs.

Other links related to Poly U Design Annual Show 2012: http://www.polyudesignshow.com/showcase.php?Exhibitors_ID=250
http://www.polyudesignshow.com/
http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/web/NewsAndEvents/News?p=8&n=513
http://www.facebook.com/pages/PolyU-Design-Annual-Show-2012/302418913139637

Furniture Design - A Minute Chair

A Minute chair is a plywood chair, which contains only 7 pieces and they can be fit together without using screws, gule, or nails.

The chair utilizes wedge methods that secure one another.

All pieces can be deconstructed and store easily.

Installation Design - Stroll The Past

The landmark will be established in 2013.
Location: Aberdeen Chinese Permanent Cemetery Entrance
地點: 香港仔華人永遠墳場入口斜路

Rendering

Olympus OM214

My drawings _Hong Kong Street Culture

 

You should observe your "Hong Kong''.

SD Students winners of 2010 International Toy Design Competition

From School of Design, PolyU HK website:

http://blog.sd.polyu.edu.hk/category/ba-in-design-industrial-product/

We are delighted to announce that three SD BA (Hons) IPD Graduates Jean Christophe SCOLARI, Ali WU Ka Lai, and Miles XU Dan Xing have won the 1st Prize Award in the Outdoor Toys category at the AIJU’s 6th International Toy Design Competition for their entry, the ‘POOK’ Outdoor Beach Ball Launcher Playset. The design is an outcome of the 2006/07 IPD Yr1 compulsory SD2439 Design for Leisure subject. Tutors: Remi Leclerc and Scot Laughton.

SD BA (Hons) Yr1 IPD Students Angie Chan Hin Tsz, Natalie CHAN Ka Ching, and Cathy LIU Wing Yan’s entry, the ‘Flingamaball’ Outdoor Parachute Ball Ball Playset, was among the finalists in the same category. The design is an outcome of the 2009/10 SD2439 Design for Leisure subject. Tutors: Remi Leclerc and Roger Ball.

AIJU is the Spanish Association for Toy Technology Research. Over 200 participants from 30 countries participated in the competition. While the three awardees will win a 1800 Euros cash prize, AIJU will grant SD a 1000 Euro scholarship.