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Yusen Hu™


Works
  1. Side Table
  2. Jean Cap
  3. Decks Chair
  4. CYLINDERS
  5. Hang for Fun lamp
  6. Emotion Breaker stool
  7. Reverse Grind table


Blog
  1. Ceramic ashtray
  2. Shoes Rack
  3. Jean Wallet

  4. The Emotional Utilitarian

  5. Design Museum

  6. Christo early works Exhibition

  7. Numeric Skate Demo

  8. The British Museum

  9. Pitt rivers Museum

  10. Flax craft central
  11. Kate lecture
  12. LCC stiching tutorial

  13. BOX by Max Lamb

  14. Sheila Hicks: infinite potential

  15. Instagram viewing 1
  16. V&A Museum
  17. CCW MA graduation exhibition
  18. Scarf knitting
  19. Natural History Museum
  20. Tate Morden Museum
  21. The British Museum 2
  22. The Egyptian Museum
  23. Banksy Exhibition
  24. Tea table
  25. Cap making
  26. Unit 1 exhibition
  27. Remake shoes
  28. Antony Gormley Exhibition
  29. Tate Britain
  30. Newspaper Ceramic
  31. Aromatherapy tray
  32. Kettle’s Yard
  33. Paper samples for unit 2
  34. The Fitzwilliam Museum
  35. How to analyze the case
  36. Woodcuts
  37. Collect 2024
  38. Ceramic extrusion
  39. Tony’s cardboard space
  40. Tony’s tour London
  41. Ceramic London 2024
  42. Wheel-throw learning
  43. CSM shows 2024
  44. Tony’s tour East London
  45. Portland Carving tour
  46. FUMI Casa al mare
  47. Silicone Molding in summer break
  48. London Transportation Museum
  49. Dongyang Chinese furniture market
  50. Prototype redoing for previous work
  51. Jingdezhen visiting
  52. London Design Festival 2024
  53. Hang for Fun lamp
  54. Emotion Breaker stool
  55. Reverse Grind table


Yusen
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Previous works by Yusen have delved deeply into themes of functionality, sustainability, and humanization. Yusen’s practice highlights a curiosity about cultural influences and their potential to inform modern design approaches, blending cultural resonance with innovative environmental solutions.


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44. Tony’s tour East London
26/06/2024


Judy Chicago
The various patterns derived from the vagina make a shy subject become obscure and beautiful. This reminds me that many things in life may have other abstract expressions.




And such abstract expressions can be applied to different materials and objects, making them more emotional.


Coffee shop designed by Zaha Hadid
Zaha naturally introduced the sunlight into the interior space. The overall organic and smooth style is very representative.

Japan House
I like this audio because it is very brilliant, natural combination of cone and spiral just like the wood was peeled.

To be honest, the whole feeling of this object is ugly, but the artificial pit texture with natural wood texture is very interesting. It remind me of the previous CSM students rattan dye work. The overlap of artificial and natural texture is charming.

Enzo Mari
Affordability was a very important objective for Mari. He always aimed at creating design objects that were intuitive, elegant, functional, low cost and that would make a personal connection with their users. During his design process, Mari would become intimately involved with the artisans and manufacturers to ensure that his objectives of functionality, quality, and cost of his designs were met.

In 1974, Mari and Simon (Dino) Gavina collaborated in the project Metamobile, which focused on producing a small number of tables, chairs and beds using the Autoprogettazione designs at Simon Gavina’s plant in Calcinelli di Fano. These Autoprogettazione designs made through the Metamobile project were also made using simple pine wood boards, but were to be assembled with screws, washers and nuts–as opposed to using nails as was prescribed in the do-it-your-self instructions published in the Autoprogettazione

This reminds me of Pallet Furniture serie designed by studiomama. The simplity, functional, affordable really attracts me. It help me rethink of why studiomama’s work is successful. Because they choose the easy to capture and sometimes useless after transportation material to reuse. Are there any materials that I can use for my work? I noticed there is so much construction rubbish near my home and school.

After changing its material to metal, the furniture becomes much more mordern and expensive. What if I change materials for my designed work. This time I used scrapped wood to make the chair, what if next time I use the scrapped cloth, leather, metal? What kind of texture it will be? 

Three glass tubes becomes a vase. Their different colors and transparent characteristic makes this unique visual experience. 

Use the mould as the mould for glass, it is interesting and unexpectedly functional.



In 1958, Enzo Mari designed for Danese the celebrated Putrella trays, produced by using an industrial semi-finished product as raw material to be modified by skilled craftsmanship, through the welds were made by workers who had nothing to do with traditional artisan crafts. Other important Enzo Mari product designs for Danese were the Arran trays (1960), Formosa wall calendar (1963), Trinidad, Atoll fruit bowls (1965), melamine Java container (1965 and 1968), Pago-Pago reversible vase (1969), Tongareva bowl (1969), carafes (1969), Salt shaker and pepper grinders (1972), and Paro and Ovio glasses (1983).

The industrial beauty is also an important part. It shows the possibility of normal things with unexpected functions. I am really interested in this work because I think my topic is quite similar to this feeling.

Enzo’s drawings were very rough and simple, but this did not stop him being a great designer.

Other designers’ works echo to Enzo Mari
Jaclyn Pappalardo
Her first prototype is simple and then becomes more like a real one. The unit concept is good for sustainability and more customizable.

Andu Masebo
I remember this designer had the speech on Chelsea campus. He changed the color and finishing to make the chair look different.

Studiomama
Studiomama is a design studio I knew when I researched. These toys are interesting. They were assembled entirely from offcuts of wood left behind by other projects.

Other classical works
Wiggle Chair by Frank Gehry
The Wiggle Side Chair is part of Frank Gehry's 1972 furniture series 'Easy Edges', in which he succeeded in bringing a new aesthetic dimension to such an everyday material as cardboard. The sculptural chair is not only very comfortable, it is also strong and robust.


Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Charles Trevelyan

I like his way of designing and making. He usually did not make the one to one final pieces but real material scaled models. This process helps designer to know the manufacture process, saves time, and a lot easier and more direct to communicate with client. His website only shows some work pictures and contact ways. It inspires me that I should use my works pictures to catch the eye of people at the first page.
For the light, I do appreciate he can finish the detail so well like he even do the light bulb shell with the same material.
I like combination of the hard shape bronze and soft shape wood. Although these two materials are stiff but wood is visually soft.From his interview, I also learnt that the gallery not only has the function of displaying your work but also many resources of manufacturing or other thinkgs. So choosing a good gallery is a key thing.



Ingrid Donat



This designer’s work is mainly about bronze. Her unique style and integration of mechanical is very interesting. Sometimes I think integrating some movable parts in furniture is a hit point.

Michèle Lamy

This is Michèle Lamy‘s work. She is the producer of RO furniture collection.
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