Excited for FBTSTBTC Chair to be part of @ngvmelbourne MDW event 100 chairs by @friends.associates !
See it at South Magdalen Laundry, Abbotsford convent!
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DUALIA • Material and Colour Palette
Colour combination explorations and Material selection, presenting fulfillment and stability through weight and generous forms, inviting through soft curves and translucency.
#productdesign #startup #industrialdesign #colourpalette #cad #renderoftheday #designinspiration
DUALIA • Innovative magnetic phone case compact
Concept design and Modeling to Manufacture for niche cosmetics start up, DUALIA. Blending oriental symbols and values into a daily makeup compact.
#productdesign #startup #industrialdesign #colourpalette #cad #renderoftheday #designinspiration
Interact and feel through touch and movement.
Framed by the Square, transformed by the Circle.
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Pressed Memory, Instant Meal.
Lukas, 2025.
Pressed Memory, Instant Meal explores the tension between authenticity and imitation, using cyanotype prints on disposable food packaging to reflect on cultural identity and the shifting idea of home. Drawing from the blue-and-white symbolism of traditional Chinese porcelain and the intimate meals my mother prepared in Macau, I recreated these dishes on flattened cardboard boxes, once holding instant meals that promise a “flavour of home.”
The work becomes a quiet act of performance. Some images blur, some fade, and others resist entirely. Gluing these warped, fragile pieces together, despite their refusal to align, mirrors the emotional difficulty of assembling a sense of belonging in a foreign place.
What emerges is a fragmented table setting: part memory, part mimicry. It holds both tenderness and tension. This is not a faithful reconstruction of home, but a personal archive, and a subtle rebellion against the tidy, polished ways culture is often expected to present itself.
*a window （窗） where creativity traverses across practices.*
#紅豆沙 #葡撻 #葡式辣魚 #蒸水蛋 #青花瓷 #藥膳雞湯米 #cyanotype
Industrial Design Honours Project: Gesture and Transformation
This physical transformation is not about adaptability in a practical sense, it is about proposing a new kind of relationship between people and objects. One that values ritual, memory, and interaction over convenience. In doing so, the work asks: Could emotional longevity become a design tool? Could cultural nuance and physical gesture restore meaning to the everyday objects we live with?
#gesture #ritual #design #emotionaldurabledesign #furniture #slowdesign #furnituredesign #industrialdesigner #designerfurniture #midcenturymodernfurniture #jeanprouvé #rmitdesign
Industrial Design Honours Project: Intention
What I’ve set out to do is more than just make furniture. It’s about creating pieces that carry meaning, that speak quietly but clearly to the hands and hearts that touch them. I’ve always felt a kind of romance toward objects—their ability to hold memory, to age with us, to be more than just useful. They’re not just things. They’re companions, mirrors, holders of care.
If designers stop acting from that human place, I fear that something essential will slip away. This project is my way of holding onto that—of showing that design can be intimate, poetic, and still grounded. It’s my invitation for others to feel that same connection, to cross the boundary where an object becomes something more than just a thing.
Credits to @deliboy.d for helping with the shoot.
#woodwork #furniture #woodfurniture #conceptdesign #storytelling #macaudesign
Industrial Design Honours Project: Materiality and craft
At the heart of this collection lies a deep respect for material and craftsmanship. Made from Australian Blackwood, Elm, and Jarrah, the timbers reflect where my practice is currently rooted. Subtle brass accents run through the collection, offering a warm, inviting contrast that quietly catches the eye.
This was a first full scale furniture that I made, different from anything I have done in the past, it has almost no digital software assistance at all. Everything was carefully measured, cut, chiseled, and sanded by hand. The joineries follows the traditional mortis and tenon, symbolising a transformation based on traditional techniques. Rather than hiding imperfections, I chose to highlight the knots, grains, and irregularities of the wood. These natural marks became a visual reminder of care, time, and humanness. Joineries utilised circular forms and circular gestures to further amplify the metaphor of the name itself. Each mortise was intentionally colour-matched to its tenon, allowing users to slowly discover how the parts connect, slowly finding their way through the transformation, inviting more care, and more observation when interacting with the object.
If I would describe the individual pieces, the chair represents adaptability in stillness, and the stool represents intimacy in transition.
Together, they are the tangible outcome of a design approach framed by emotional durability, and transformed by the quiet rituals of Macau.
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Industrial Design Honours Project: introduction
In a world constantly chasing the next trend, where even furniture is built to expire, I found myself returning to a question that felt both simple and impossible: What do we keep, and why?
This question became the foundation of my honours project, not just as a designer, but as someone trying to understand how objects become part of who we are. The issue wasn’t only about waste or materials; it was about a mindset. We’ve grown used to letting go too easily, favouring speed, convenience, and surface over care, longevity, and meaning.
Back home in Macau, things move differently. It’s a place layered with both Chinese and Portuguese heritage, where eastern and western influences coexist in quiet harmony. A city of movement and stillness, transformation and tradition. Space is scarce, but memory is dense. In the rituals of daily life, lifting a stool, pouring tea, sitting by a window—I learned that meaning often arrives quietly. It’s carried in gestures, in use, and across time. Inspired by these small but lasting moments, I began handcrafting a furniture collection grounded in cultural rootedness and shaped by transformation.
This project began as a response to that memory. I didn’t want to design for efficiency. I wanted to design for value, something that grows with you. Through emotional design theory, cultural research, and personal reflection, I developed a framework that asks how furniture could be kept, not discarded. Loved, not replaced.
The final piece isn’t just a chair or a modular form. It’s a proposition: that objects can transform not only in their function but in the meaning they hold. It’s a design philosophy that moves with life. framed by tradition, transformed by rhythm.
This is the introduction of a chair that changes shape, and of a mindset that invites us to look more closely at the things we choose to keep.
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