WIO, a novel flower display

NUS Industrial Design Assignment - Making Links

Industrial/ Product

The brief

My project

As designer-makers, each team of two/three designers will select a context: space or body, to design for. They will be exploring ways to connect different materials and forms, and discover novel ways of joining. After a series of studies, they will use their own system of connections to make small objects for their context. These objects may be home accessories, wearable objects, or something more conceptual.

Under the guidance of Tiffany Loy.

(Ler Shan Tan, Chew Tong Yun, Wee Kai Bin)

WIO is a series of three novel vessels — consisting of a table top, a wall-mounted, and a wearable vessel — that challenges the conventional, by empowering its users to experience an expressive, flexible, and captivating lifestyle.

Respectively made out of their own unique interlinkable units, each product is constructed using steel wires that delicately frame glass spheres, emulating the essence of how dew is found alongside the living nature.

WIOwear - the wearable

Tasteful, lavish, and elegant, your custom flora arrangement sits on your wrists and the back of your hands, make a delicate yet powerful statement anywhere you go.

WIOdesk -the centrepiece

Grounded, bountiful, and captivating, it tessellates into structures, with its delicate stability commanding attention in any room.

WIOwall - the wall-mounted

Flexible, directional and subdued, the flowers would weave along the walls, adapting to every nook and cranny.

Unique Connections,
No Adhesives

Interconnectable units, using just tension of the wires and the curvature of the spheres.

My process

Holder Exploration

Exploring the usage of the ball and socket joint as a holder.

Design around the link for the purpose of hosting the delicate flowers

Bending wires around clear acrylic spheres

Prototyped with styrofoam spheres, while the 30+ acrylic spheres were molded, and polished.

The brief

My project

Designers will select a context: space or body, to design for. They will be exploring ways to connect different materials and forms, and discover novel ways of joining. After a series of studies, they will use their own system of connections to make small objects for their context. These objects may be home accessories, wearable objects, or something more conceptual.

Under the guidance of Tiffany Loy.

(Ler Shan Tan, Chew Tong Yun, Wee Kai Bin)

WIO, a novel flower display

WIO, a novel flower display

The brief

My project

WIOwear - the wearable

WIOwear - the wearable

WIOdesk -the centrepiece

WIOdesk -the centrepiece

WIOwall - the wall-mounted

WIOwall - the wall-mounted

Unique Connections, No Adhesives

Unique Connections, No Adhesives

My process

My process

Holder Exploration

Holder Exploration

Design around the link for the purpose of hosting the delicate flowers

Design around the link for the purpose of hosting the delicate flowers

Bending wires around clear acrylic spheres

Bending wires around clear acrylic spheres

Prototyped with styrofoam spheres, while the 30+ acrylic spheres were molded, and polished.

Prototyped with styrofoam spheres, while the 30+ acrylic spheres were molded, and polished.

The brief

My project

Unique Connections,
No Adhesives

Unique Connections,
No Adhesives