KENTWANGPORTFOLIO

SCULPTURE

2009

Flying 2009

The complete flying posture only appears when its reflection is emerged from the irregular

mirror. This is a metaphor that implies before you fly, seek out the other side of you from

appropriate perspective firstly.

2009

Cohesion 2009

Cohesion, an opposite process to explosion, froze the moment of power. To

compose each piece of glass, which was pointed by single color dot, try to

express a portrait of time.

2010

Week Knots 2010

When you asked me What day is it today? you may think various expressions of week in your mind.

There are always some primeval symbols representing the same explication for human being, as a

number, a sign, a group of letters or a redesigned knot that divides a week into seven days.

In this group of works, each knot was formed by a single brass wire; the number of the cross of each

brass wire represents the days of the week. For example, the Wednesday knot has three crosses and the

Friday knot has five crosses.

Format

Erupt

Sublimate

Soft

10 Cm 2010

10 Cm Space 2010

What can we do on a piece of 10 square centimeters paper? Without any glue, I was asked to

create different 3-D worlds within the limited space, telling the different semantics.

PRODUCT

2011 ,

Flow Desk 2011

The gravity let a drop of water appears the perfect flowing surface and its steady sense cam be

expressed by metal processing.

This project required to design a desk that caters to young office lady. Because we often link

female to graceful liquid, using by this visual feeling, I designed the Flow for young females

who desire to get rid of oppressive surroundings while they need what seem still formal.

2012

3D

Brainwash Lamp 2012

Here is a picture of the movie M.I.B: James would be tucked

into the Neuralyzer, a big machine that erases the memories.

Lots of electric tubes as well as glossy, rounded machines

consisted of a vintage science-fiction style, and that aroused me

to think what about a helmet-lamp lighting by the time when

you put it on your head?

There is a rapid prototype made by my 3-D printer on the

pictures, and after that I added circuit for simulating a

brainwash lamp. It is ironic that when you wear this stuff,

probably, you will generate something new in the mind.

2011

Sense Shower 2011

Take a shower and release yourself from tension.

Rain shower company wish to develop completely new shower for exploiting innovative market. Therefore,

people who love bath should not miss this new pleasurable sensation, the all-time waterfall flowing from the

redesigned internal structure. Meanwhile, the back of Sense was designed by multi-surface and the bottom

showed arc radian, for grasping comfortably in the wet, slippery bathroom.

2012

Freestyle Photography Light 2012

In micro or portraits photography, the ring flash, a sort of

photographic illumination, are popularly utilized by work.

Because of how soft distributed light wraps around a face or

object, producing a beautiful reflex on the eyes as well as a near

shadow-less image.

However I found the dully round flash did not satisfy various

creative requirements. Therefore, a new designed micro light

allowed photographers to assemble free. According to connect

different types of LED modules to the dock, which contained

8 independent power supply ports, users can work in the high

efficiency and unlimited possibility.

A prototype was made to test illuminating effect.

Patent No. ZL 2012 2 0252250.0

The first prototype is enabled to adjust size and position of LED modules,

and is tested for whether the 12V power is enough.

Concerning about accurate consumption purpose, the

consequence will be more pleasant.

OOPS!

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2012

Click Tap 2012

Ugh! I smear my new shirt!

In most cases, it is unnecessary to consume large amount

of tap-water for cleaning while it is quite difficult for

ordinary taps to control a small water flow precisely

and instantly, resulting that users are often prone to

use a large of water flow for convenience. This habit

is helpless to clean exactly small areas; furthermore, it

would increase surplus water-consuming.

Only by adding a protruding rubber loop on the bonnet,

a part of ordinary lever taps. When the handle is raised

to a certain degree, the loop will produce a slight

resistance stopping you moving the handle further up,

so that a little water will come out. If a bigger flow is

needed, just force up the handle continuously.

Rubber Loop

Outlet

Bonnet

Handle

0~5

5~Max

The red sign becomes resistance when the rubber loop touchs

particular handle's joint in about 5 degrees.

Once the handle is raised over the point of resistance, it

becomes a common lever-tap and flows water as ususal.

2012

Easy Stick 2012

Many people require assistance on walking

with the use of a stick or cane due to spinal

problems or injured joint. Those that do

suffer find it is difficult and painful to walk

especially going up and down stairs. A

normal walking stick or cane is suitable for

use on flat ground but not very suits for

stairs, which could be very dangerous. One

can lose their balance and fall due to fatigue

or the stick slipping on the step.

The Easy sticks lower shape makes it

easier and safer than before for those need

assistance going up and down stairs. After

investigating the average height of one

step (10cm~20cm), we confirm this unique

design meets the most situations. It not only

decreases the strength used by elevated

arm, but also ensures correct posture that

will greatly reduce the risk of falling.

Patent No. ZL 2012 2 0472898.9

Min. 10cm

Min. 90cm

2013

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Dual-Pump Bathing Kit 2013

Due to a co-design work with students from medical devices department, we needed

to observe severe patients who cannot take care themselves independently in sickroom,

and we found these persons bodies were confronting poor condition of hygiene. Their

nurses had to use hot towel for cleaning them for relieving this problem caused by whose

standing ability are disabled. Thus, our idea to solve this problem is associated with the

concept of inflatable pool, which can not only help nurses completely cleaning patients

bodies, but for patients, it is unnecessary to act a large range of motion.

There are two parts of DPBK (Dual-Pump Bathing Kit): quick-dry airbed and float

controller. When the water flows into the designed runner system in the inflatable airbed,

it will immediately converge and drain off. The second part, controller, can float in the

hot water. It has three functions: inflating, deflating and heating. The turbine blades

inside operate as a pump that can force air and water out or into three different ports. For

example, if the controller is switched to heating position, the hot water will be pumped

up and flow into airbeds interlayer. It will form a heating circulation in order to maintain

some weak patients body temperature.

This kit can suit various nursing environments. Those who cannot afford to purchase costly

multifunctional cleaning machine, only need a bucket of hot water and DPBK to return

fresh skin back to the patients and to comfort what they are suffering.

Step 1. Inflating

Step 2. Heating

Step 3. Deflating

Air Vent

Siphon

2012

Neoplasticism Loudspeaker 2012As the artistic style shift, Neoplasticism, this work became my turning

point. I was fortunately for choosing a concise-looking style to handle

this maiden work, because a mass of acoustic knowledge I never heard

before was waiting for me; meanwhile, this choice left me enough

room to calculate volume inside and modify the structural size.

The reason why I raise the chamber up and leave a room under bottom

is that I set the sound vent under box and try to imitate the principle

that sound is transported in the valley can be strengthened. This is

a process of both learning acoustic knowledge and compromising

aesthetics and functions. Then, I find it is so attractive to design and

make a loudspeaker. This process also paves the way for my next

loudspeaker design.

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All Begin From Character

In Chinese word, Houhei means a complicated and ambivilent character. Those who hide real purpose and

ambition. In fact, this obscure culture attempts to build a strong self-protection awareness to isolate individual

from the vulgarization; to preserve the "high degree" and "low profile." However this belief, as a parasitical

relationship with vanity, is always the idealists' Utopian. In order to gather the more accurate product position,

I focus and observe this unique character, studing their manner. This is a distinct method from the original

market survey.

Admittedly, to analyze characters is not enough for determining product position, so it is necessary to

categorize personal factors as the gender, age and how much burdge people can accept. The loudspeakers

attributes is connecting tightly human characters with the music through both tone an aesthetic tendency.

Thus I start to build a list to connect matirals and shapes with human perception in terms of different linguistic

describtion, and then match them for the attributes one personality has. Enventully, I obtian clear design

principle aims at one pertiqular personality.

When a Houhei individual, who is 25~39 years old male and has a decent income, faces to so many sorts of

loudspeaker, which aspects will be the decisive factors?

In the first place, the visual sense, material and volume cannot be displayed ostentatiously for differing from

the vulgarization. Moreover, the young adults market generally emphasizes in vivacity and individuation, but

when I deal with a particular definition of market, namely Houhei group, these two focuses should be given

way for low profile, meaningful and organic product. These linguistic features also can connect to manmade

shape, functionalism and appropriate materphor emploing.

How old am I?

How much can I accept?

The loudspeaker that I love...

(Who am I?)

Function

and

size?

What kind of hearing do I like?

Material?

Style?

Personal factors

Loudspeaker's attributes

"Houhei"

Male

25-39

Manmade characteristic

Heavy affordance

Sci-Fi

Glossy surface

Frosted surface

Plain color

Natural elements

Strengthened low frequency

High dynamic

Point-and-shoot

Semi-profession

Obvious size

Style

Material

Hearing

Income

Age

Character

Function&

Size

Flight Wireless Loudspeaker 2013

Now I have reasonable design guidelines and have drafted some

sketchs fullfill requirements. The final programme is decided as

a white sci-fi aircraft. I link the space sci-fi elements to satisfy

with the linguistic features I just mentioned. The "Houhei" group

will not immediately accept a thing designed within inaccessible

abstract and extremely cold expression, so the streamlined

feature with a little warm white color. Furthermore, according

to reasearch, the egg-shape sound box provides more smooth

frequency response curve so that there will be more leeway to

adjust final hearing.

2013

20 30 5.25 6.5

5.25 3.5 2.1

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CNC ABS

In the sets of function, I emphasize the convenient, smart connection method, instead of pursuing multifunction audio

system. When a tired workaholic comes back home, and fall into sofa, his only need is opening the Bluetooth and

Media Library in the smart device. The Flight will connect automatically closest music device and play it.

Three egg-shape chamber provide loudspeaker units sufficient volume of chamber to adjust. In terms of

speaker choice, an average space of living room in China is 20-30 square meters. (for an apartment around 100

square meters) Thus we need at least two 5.25-6.5 inch full frequency units to provide appropriate power. The

Flight have set one 5.25 inch and two 3.5 inch full frequency units.

I also improved vertical directivity to suit these typical living rooms. To set 15 degrees elevation angle, an adult

who sits opposite about 5 meters away (the typical length of living room) can hear straighter audio-frequency

transferred from Flight. To present the energy of music by the take-off posture, and for corresponding with

abundant low-frequency of Pop/Electronic music to meet young mans taste, I slightly compact the resonant chamber.

The CNC prototype was machined for 6 weeks in the factory after determined the final design. Upon each part of it

completed, I pre-assembled them for checking and adjusting structure and connected circuits. I must admit that although I

had the experience of making Neoplasticism project, the limited space inside Flight and wireless module assembling did

worry me for a while. Fortunately, in spite of little regret on low SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio), the end product is satisfied at all.

Power+

Pairing

4~6 Meters

SERVICE

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1199c

1199c

1199c Training and Upgrade Fund Project 2014

The 1199c training and upgrade fund is an institution where trains 1199c union members to higher educational level.

Most of union members are the employees from public health service system. However, the 1199c doesnt satisfy with

the recent training scale, and they are tempting to seek out more possibilities to attract union members enrolling. Thus,

they have entrusted this task to the Visibility Committee, a group of faculty are organized spontaneously. In terms of

our studios object, to collaborate with Visibility Committee and design a series of system for enhancing the training

quality as well as attracting more potential students are the priority.

After ice breaking with the Visibility Committee members and some managements, our preliminary framework is in

the embryonic stage. There are two forces we should involve in. One is coming from the training form of 1199c faculties

and managements; the other is coming from the motivation and reaction of students.

Therefore, we set up first workshop and invite the faculty who

focuse on creative training form and method. Before we ask these

participants to provide ideas for improvements, we need to evoke

their empathy as being a student, and ask them to reconsider the

goal and barrier students might have. Therefore, the participants

are required to create some student personas, inculding the

personal background, study goals and concern. Brainstorming the

reasons why students choose to study here makes participants

an overall consensus. Then, a deeper brainstorm is for seeking

out which part of concern the 1199c still doesnt have solution to

solve. Since the missing parts are narrowed down, in the finial

phase, we provide them some word prompts for freely composing

to prototype new training forms and methods.

CURRICULUM DESIGN

Does the shoe fit?

UNION MEMBER AWARENESS

Do people know it exists?

INCREASE UTILIZATION

If yes...

Visibility Committee Design for Social Impact

Through prototyping these disorder prompts, the Fish Fishbowl

created by participants is a class excise to provide a chance for students

learning each others experience.

Sorting students goals also is a path to empathize what they need and

what can be improved.

Sorting students goals also is a path to empathize what they need and

what can be improved.

1199c

Expect for researching the faculty aspect in the first workshop,

we start to engage in learning the authentic thoughts from

students aspect. The primary question is to find out what blocks

union members to enroll on 1199c training institution. Thus,

we coordinate Visibility Committee with some teachers, and

get permission to directly take short-time interviews with the

students sitting in the classroom.

When we have gathered a mass of data from the class, we

realize although these employees have taken 1199c course, some

problems and barriers are yet to be solved. For example, the time

arrangement after work is still a high concern for these people.

Hence, we decide to leave that question to those who still have

not taken the course, or who even have not noticed the existence

of 1199c training institution. This manner not only enhances the

identity of 1199c training and upgrade fund, but also can collect

critical feedbacks from union members to faculty.

According to this concept, we design a new communication tool that

transmits information from site to site. There are two different color tiles

that can attach to surface of cube by magnets on the four corners, and

these plastic tiles are available for using erasable mark pen. Each surface

can hold several pieces of tile so that it provides different levels and

directions to contain the information written on it.

We facilitate the third workshop for displaying it in 1199c. In this

workshop, we try to maximize the potential value for this new tool,

so we ask participants to brainstorm how to utilize it. However, an

unexpected thing happens in the end of workshop. One of participant

suggests we should use this new tool to name itself. After all the people

write down the proposals on the tiles, and pass the cube with these tiles

to us. We display them on the whiteboard for voting. Finally, we make an

agreement that it should be called Smart Cube.

Middle age union members desire enhancing their basic technology skills

to meet higher-level job requirement.

What made union members go through the door?

Take 1199c curriculumUnion members who know

training service exists

Visibility Committee

Pass to their students

Provides it to teachers

Write down responses

Return back to Visibility Committee

Sites visiting

1199c

1199c

During the three workshops, the enthusiastic contribution from Visibility Committee is

crucial. We feel 1199c contains high tolerance for accepting creative thinking, which is often

missed in certain large-scale firms. Nevertheless, the complex union system and policy

constrains are the most reasons 1199c doesnt have enough implementation to utilize new

design well. On the other hand, if a co-designer finally produces a radical, or even too much

incontrollable product, the desire level from the clinet would lower dramatically.

Host

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Host

Guest Guest

Guest

Infinite Board Co-Design App 2014

As the way of co-design, a closer connection with designer, researcher and users appears

during design process. They generally sit together and use some recording tools, such as

a whiteboard or stickers, to collect and refine information. Following the experience from

workshops, I gradually find the tools co-designer normally use have many constrains. For

example, the information on the whiteboard is not able to be transmitted to other media

directly; the note written down on stickers do not has capability to connect with each other in

the third dimension, which means these data do not have advance hierarchical relationship.

Thus, a strong intuition prompts me to create a digital co-design application to capture a

potentially professional demand.

I have realized that a basic platform to load information is necessary while studying the

co-design process, and a platform without boundary provides infinite space to save the

information. In addition, the role of users, researcher and designer in this environment also

are clear. Researcher guides and organizes what users react to the sets of questions, and co-

designer extracts values from this activity. The interaction with three roles can be analogized

to three forces from different levels, and these forces manners all can be converted to

different digital tools.

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To use Cloud technology creates an infinite platform in the touchable

display terminal; like Google drive, this platform can be shared with

anyone who want to involve and edit.

In terms of operation administration, each participant has some editing

functions that match for the administration given by the platform creator,

and the creator also is a participant. Typically, there are two models to

initial the system. The first one is Master-Slave model; the other one is

Freestyle model. In the Master-Slave model, the host can edit all the levels

belong to guests while all guests will be restricted to edit their own level.

In the Freestyle model, all participants can freely edit each other.

Master-Slave edit administration

Freestyle edit administration To sort out a mass of information on the stickers and under lines becomes

diffcult when they are overlapping or have hierarchical relationship.

Feeling unfamiliar with the form of co-design tool usually results in

misunderstanding takeways.

Color choices for the Pen tool

Lasso Pen tool can select

information from the platform

and extracts it for move.

Linking Pen tool can connect

extracted information and

objects on the platform

By attaching Label tool to the information that is

selected by Lasso tool, a hierarchical outline has

been generated in the Outline option providing user

to check. If the information or objects have been

connected by Linking Pen tool, the relationship of them

also can be indicated in the outline interface.

Capture tool can record the panorama of the platform

as a picture, and automatically save it into the timeline.

The timeline can be exported to Cloud server for review.

Since the infinite platform doesnt have boundary, it

captures the size as big as content included.

Can import images, audios and

videos from local files

Can export captured pictures

and outlines to the cloud

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SEPTA Users Experience Enhancement Project 2015

Our client, The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is trying to renovate whole transportation

system covering Philadelphia and suburb area in order to increase utilization. Therefore, they are eager to let the public

change driving habit to using public transportations as a general travel mode by enhancing experience of whole system.

During the three times workshops, I worked with MBA students who came from Temple University. At first time, we took a

roundtable meeting. The SEPTA representatives took turns to introduce their critical functions and recent enhancement plans.

At second workshop, each of group members observed different part of SEPTA system, such as subway control room, shuttle

bus terminal center and customer service, and then provided thoughts based on the SEPTA representatives feedbacks. In the

finial one, we narrowed down these thoughts through corresponding to typical personas needs that we had synthesized.

When we developed these ideas, one of them drew SEPTA high interest. We found that people couldnt judge the capacities

of train cars before it came. Chaotic crowd blocked some cars doors but another few cars still had capacity to stand more

people. This situation occurred frequently, especially in the rush hour. Sometimes, passengers have to wait several runs for

arriving destinations. It definitely damaged their experience of taking public transportation.

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The insight process that provides mass of ideas previously

paves the way of selecting appropriate persona, and

quickly formulating design framework. Design emphasizes

on eliminating issues that obstruct access of the train.

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Hence, if we can provide a solution that indicates capacity information

to people in advance, the crowd would be distributed in each car

organically. By using counting devices on each cars door, the computers

will upgrade capacity status of each car to a data hub, and this hub can

transmit the live data to some different interface, such as indicators in the

station and smart phone application. The capacity indicators are hung

on station ceiling align to the position where each cars door opens, so

that passengers can previously stand in the right position for getting on

the train. For the people who can use smart phone, it is more convenient

to receive this information by accessing in SEPTA application. The

train status report helps them to adjust their travel plan. Moreover, this

mechanism also allows SEPTA to monitor the status of whole operating

system, and modify the running strategy promptly. As a win-win value,

it would be a good reference to research and enhance utilization.

Different reading terminals that display capacity information remind passengers

in multiple ways.

These data will also be monitored by SEPTA through the hub.

The hub can be integrated into part of Communication-based Train Control system.

The design of indicator ensures affordance when people choose the line.

RESUME

EDUCATION

2014

University of the Arts

Master Degree of Design for Social Impact

2009-2013

University of Shanghai for Science & Technology

Bachelor Degree of Industrial Design

HONOR2015 Fox Design Challenge

2012 Red Dot Concept

2012 College Scholarship

2011 Rain Shower Design Competition

National Patent (ZL 201220472898.9)

National Patent (ZL 201220252250.0)

EXPERIENCE

Co-Creative Designer

1199c Training and Upgrading Fund Project

Collaborate with Visibility Committee members in 1199c training

institute, and facilitate several workshops to enhance the connection

between this training institute and the union members.

Germantown Town Hall Community Workshop

A project to facilitate one-day co-creative workshop for a north

Philadelphia community; help them consider an abandon historical

construction. Through employing participatory activities, the potential

values of this building are simultaneously conveyed to communities.

2015 Fox Design Challenge

Annual design project collaborating with MBA students in the

Temple University aims to address issues of SPETA (The Southeastern

Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) about their entire running

system. The workshops activities include several insight phases and

an opportunity to provide corresponding solutions. One of our team's

solutions obtained first prize for this challenge.

Designer Assistant

Shanghai A-line Automatic System Co., Ltd.

Assist structure engineers to design support system for robotic arm,

and participate in upgrading scheme for local manufacture to operate

imported system.

Wedding Photographer

Shanghai Love Jam Wedding Co., Ltd.

Undertake the role of one-year wedding photographer and provide

post-production for wedding celebration.

Shop Assistant

Cold Stone Creamery Co., Ltd.

Yum! Brands Inc.

SKILL

VisualizationGraphic design

Photography

3-D Modeling and Rendering

HandworkSpray Painting

Clay Modeling

Machine Tool and 3-D Printer Operation

Loudspeaker Design

Co-DesignCollaborative Tool Creation

Workshop Facilitation

Metadata and Information Analysis

KENT

WANG

Address: 145 S, 13th Street, Apt. 401

Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA

Phone: (215)-490-3866

Email: kentwangdesign@gmail.com