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Heart Ring Accessory by Ellen Zhu |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
EZ: This design is a set of stackable rings inspired by Chinese Characters that contain the word "heart" as its radical. Rings have always been provided with symbolic meanings since ancient time. There's an old say in Chinese "Men's ten fingers are linked to the heart", this shows the intimate connection between the fingers and "heart".
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
EZ: Designed a set of stackable rings inspired by Chinese Characters that contain the word “heart” as its radical. The rings can be combined into different Chinese characters according to the wearer's mood and feelings. So no matter where people are from, what language they speak can all enjoy the beauty of Chinese Character.
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
EZ: I would like to further develop it, because I think the work has a great malleability, can be extension into a range of interesting design.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
EZ: This project starts in June 2016 and finished in August 2016.
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
EZ: I want to invite more people to enjoy the beauty of Chinese character.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
EZ: Experience an interactive method for people to play with Chinese characters.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
EZ: no
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
EZ: people who are interested in Chinese culture.
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
EZ: The biggest challenge of this project was how to design Chinese character into a much more interesting form, as it is one of the most difficult but beautiful characters, I wish more people can have the chance to come into contact with it. Therefore I thought to integrate it with everyday object will be a simple and effective way, ultimately I decide to use ring as the main body, because ring is one of the most common accessory in everyone‘s daily life and have really close physical connection with human. To let the final work become more interesting and functional, I designed a range of stackable rings, to allow people to interact with the design.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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