Familiar and Unfamiliar
Familiar and Unfamiliar Moving objects with clockwork mechanism by Yang Song is a winner of the 2015 Bronze A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design.
Familiar and Unfamiliar is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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I believe that objects have souls. We give identities and personalities to objects, and they are also reflections of ourselves. This project is a discussion from objects’ perspective. It is a dramatic and humorous furniture design collection. All of the objects have clockwork equipments which makes them familiar but unfamiliar; impossible in daily lives but lifelike in a fairytale dream or memory. According to Heidegger’s ontology on object, the difference between an object and a thing is probably related to people. Lacan also indicates in “Mirror Stage” that the recognition and ident
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Familiar and Unfamiliar by Yang Song
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Moving objects with clockwork mechanism
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Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award Winner in 2015.
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Familiar and Unfamiliar Moving objects with clockwork mechanism
Familiar and Unfamiliar is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Familiar and Unfamiliar is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Familiar and Unfamiliar splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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Yang Song
Yang Song, industrial designer, MA graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has four years working experiences on both theoretical and practical realms of design before attending the MA program.
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Studio SOONG
Studio SOONG is a personal design studio in China running by industrial designer Yang Song mainly working on experimental furniture design and product research. The works designed by Yang have a particular style, which come from his unique design philosophy on memories of daily objects. As an independent designer as well as a maker, he makes nearly each piece of the design works by hand.
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