Seongyong Lee
designlsy@gmail.com


03.2008
7th New Generation Design Leader (Korea Institute of Design Promotion)


EXHIBITIONS

09.2008
Designers Block (London, UK)
09.2008
100% Design (London, UK)
05.2008
'I Am A Designer', Doosan Gallery (Seoul, Korea)
15.12.2007~26.12.2007
'Design Now-Trivial Reforms', Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum (Seoul, Korea)
18.04.2007~23.04.2007
Milan Fuori Salone 'Seoul Design Festival 2007 in Milan' (Milan, Italy)
10.2006~11.2006
Manifesto for Annual Design Exhibition 2006, Design Incubator, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Design Museum (Seoul, Korea)
10.2006
Seoul Design Festival 2006 'Young Designers Self-Promotion', COEX (Seoul, Korea)
12.2005
Design Korea 2005 Design Future Zone 'MOVIE ERA' LG Electronics, COEX (Seoul, Korea)
05.2002~07.2002
Seoul Museum of Art (SMOA) opening exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea)


WORKS

03.2008~06.2008
Studio Dror intern, New York
01.2005~05.2006
LG electronics design research center, Seoul
01.2004~ 02.2004
M.I DESIGN Intern, Seoul
09.2003~12.2003
Hyundai Motors, Industrial-academic cooperation project
06.2003~09.2003
Samsung Electronics Industrial-academic cooperation project


EDUCATION

Sep 2008 ~ Present (London, UK)
MA in Design Products, Royal College of Art
July 2008 (Barcelona, Spain)
Introduction of Exhibition Design summer course, Istituto Europeo di Design
March 1998~February 2005 (Seoul, Korea)
BFA, product design & space design, Seoul National University


 
 
 
7.5 Color Space
Bookshelf
Creation year: 2008
Material: ABS, aluminum

Some size of color is needed to provide vitality and a character into a space. I have found the appropriate angle 7.5 of a leaning object neither disturbing people moving nor being unstable itself.
 
 
Floater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiPAyU-2wOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QotI3Q4w4w

Ladle
Creation year: 2008 (initial: 2004)
Material: ABS

This unique ladle does not sink under water because of the empty ball and handle part. You do not even need to lean the ladle on a pot as well.
 
 
Light and Sound
Lighting and Speaker
Creation year: 2008
Material: ABS, speaker units

Harmony between light and sound.
 
 
ONIV
Candlestand, Vase, Oil Lamp
Creation year: 2008 (initial: 2006)
Material: ceramics

Sometimes, observing objects in new angles aesthetically and functionally gives unexpected joy. ONIV is a candlestand, vase and oil lamp inspired from the shape of a wine glass upside down. If you read ONIV from backwards, you would soon realize where this word originated from.
 
 
Apartment

Stackable Dishes
Creation year: 2007
Material: ABS

There are a lot of apartments in cities owing to the limited space reasons. I compared cities as tables, accommodations as dishes and people as food. As the food on a table is getting more, the dishes are needed to be stacked like apartment.
 
Tournament
Forks
Creation year: 2007
Material: stainless steel

Forks look like the graph for a tournament competition system. Sponserd by Nike

 
ONIV
Candlestand
Creation year: 2006
Material: glass

Sometimes observing objects in a new angle gives an unexpected joy of the discovery in beauty or function. ONIV is a work inspired from the shape of a wineglass upside down. In this way, the wineglass newly obtained both beauty and function.

The upside down bottom is suitably shaped to put something on. Romantic union is intended by combining a wineglass and a candlestand. If you read ONIV from backwards, you would soon realize where this word originated from.
 
 
Static Table Set
Tables, chairs
Creation year: 2006
Material: mortar, connected tempered glass, iron bar

Chairs and a table are interpreted as one part of a building in this work. I intended to create sharp image of this table set by using exposed concrete and tempered glass which are raw construction materials. The heaviness of concrete and clearness of glass are accentuated with static image of weightlessness.
 
 
Invisible Speaker
Speaker
Creation year: 2006
Material: super mirror, stainless steel, speaker units, wood

This is a proposal for harmony between a product and a space. The mirror surface of this speaker reflects surroundings as if it doesn¡¯t exist. Things attached to the mirror have an angle of 90 degree, forms of things therefore reversed and reflected, and the mirror surface is as if it disappears.

Sound is reflected to walls, and the sound nondirectionally spreads. Hence, the existence of the speaker will be minimized.
 
 
Floater
Cutlery
Creation year: 2004
Material: new ceramics

This product started from two main purposes. First, whenever you wash your dishes, you might have difficulties to find spoon as cutlery sinks deep down into water. Second, it is based on the idea of easy holding. Through making inside empty, it becomes rising to the surface of water like a float. Meanwhile, the spherical shape in the center acts as a supporter to help you when you cut and chop food with less effort.
 
 
Life to Dead Space
Lighting
Creation year: 2004
Material: acrylic

Light, as a power supplier.
 
 
Circular Printer
Portable Printer
Creation year: 2003
Material: ABS, acrylic, bronze

New printing system based on the circulating movement of the ink head.
Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), GOLD AWARD (2004 USA)
 
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