Illusion is a series of table cloths designed to create a unique dining experience, which evokes the imagination in our essential life. The placemat sets explore different illusion effects by applying colors and shapes. The animation transforms pattern designs into a dynamic experience.

Dining and culinary placements are essential in our lives and cultures but also limit us to certain lifestyles. Illusion aims to use how textiles constantly change our way of looking and how digital media creates dramatic effects to provide a unique dining experience visually, sensually, and physically.

Placemat set
Each placemat set includes a placemat, napkin, and coaster. Designed 2D patterns with illusion effects and intended to indicate the position of plates and cutlery. Designed two different colorways with the same pattern on both sides (front and back). In this case, users can compose multi-pattern combinations of placemat, napkin, and coaster.

Pleating Placemat
Apply pleating and different colors to indicate the position of plates and flatware. The touchable textile can provide a unique dining experience for users.

Bending Placemat
The bending placemat is bent on both sides with hook attachments. Users can put flatware in between the curved area. The placemat can be opened as an oversized placemat for one person or two persons.

Virtual Dining (4min28s)

The year 2020 started with the pandemic which changed almost everything we take advantage of, such as dining out in a restaurant. Virtual dining is a response to the change in the dining experience under pandemics. When our communication shifted to online, is it possible to have a virtual dining experience as well? How will virtual dining lead the dining culture?

Stacking reminder is a cairn-like sculptural memo system that encourages users to organize their time emotionally through color, shape, and gravity.

The color gradient indicates the urgency of the matter so that users can stack, write, and erase at ease to manage time in a highly personal way.

Upcoming soon:

The Future of coral

is an air responsive and interactive installation made of recycled EPE (Expanded Polyethylene) fruit net foam

Inspired by the beautiful provocation and relational aesthetics in contemporary art, Future of Coral aims to facilitate the sensibility that plastic pollution has caused the death of large numbers of coral in the ocean. And it is urgent for us to reduce plastic pollution in our everyday life in small steps.

Work in progress