石川
Tom Shi
website: www.tomshi.com
Tom Shi, born in 1974, graduated from G.A.F.A and Central Saint Martins College of Art& Design. Tom is an advance guard designer with over 10 years experience in the area of industrial design, spacial design and art installation. He has won several international design awards, including the Grant award of the Kapok Prize innovative design award 2007, two yellow pencils from D&AD Award 2005 in UK. His work had been published in many media including Wallpaper*, Design Week, Icon, Blueprint, Digit, Computer Art, Pro-design, Art and Design magazine, Product Design magazine in China and Popular Science magazine. He has also been select into an Annual list by Design Week, as one of “Hot 50 people making a difference in design 2005”, represent the new Chinese design force to the world.
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Selected Works:
Tree House- A Premonition of the Future Home
Tree House attempts to rekindle a sense of what the future has lost. With advancements in convenience based technology, we will find the re-emergence of a new aesthetic playfulness.
Tree House stimulates childhood memories of picking fruit from the tree or stealing eggs from the nest. Exploring modular function, it can support up to five individual units on the “tree”, including refrigerator, air filter, wine cellar, juice extractor and oven units. So you may engineer a whole new species just for yourself.
Tree Shelf
Tree Shelf is a book shelf – a furniture development of Tree House project. Continue with the DIY idea, the objects (book, CD…) you store in the shelf will also change the look of your tree, which will grow up and recording your life experience from your possession.
Phones for Play
This product is about enhancing physical interaction between the users and their mobile phones (hardware). It is about making phones more playful and handy.
A finger size hole created activists opportunity for users, and drive them to explore and develop innovative ways to play their phone, therefore created a unique experience (interaction) for the users.
The ultimate goal of this project is to search for an essential design approach for new phone development. Observing people in their daily lives and to find solutions that are simple but touch the joyful senses and memories of playing that is shared by people.
35° of Ming Style
Ming Style furniture is a traditional design classic of China. Project ‘35° of Ming Style’ is a furniture installation that not tries to redesign a new Ming Style piece, but to criticize how people understand and saw it only as a style symbol, ignore the rich profound social and culture side of it. The installation creates a 3D illusion by compress and extrudes a normal scale Ming Style chair, and tilts it to 35 degree. The result is a normal perspective from the front, but super slim from the side which make it becomes a real culture specimen. This piece is questioning and provoking people to rethink the culture and perspective on value between tradition and present.
