A well designed ankle brace needs to do 3 things: provide support, protection, and be comfortable to wear. With existing ankle braces, there’s a tradeoff between flexibility and support.
So my project is to create a tunable brace that allows people to have less mobility when they are healing and more mobility later so that they can fortify the surrounding muscles. Shown through research process, ideation sketches, sketch models, renderings, prototypes, and manufacturing costs.
Focus: Minimize material and maximize support for manufacturing cost and increase effectiveness of standard healing protocol. Increase comfort to enable early mobility for retraining muscles for proper healing. Design to be well ventilated and agile to change the connotation of current medical boots in the market. Fix all limitations found in current ankle braces that exists in the market, creating one ideal brace for every step of the injury till recovery.
Created sketch ideations, renderings, housing designs through CAD plus video cinematography for Pacific Image Electronic’s existing and latest products.
Bath accessories designed for clients such as Bed Bath and Beyond, Target, Walmart, DKNY etc.
From ideation sketches with an iPad, rapid prototyping with wood and functioning buttons, renderings with Solidworks and Keyshot, revising, to final prototype of the Hibo Plasma Lighter with high density foam, resin, and silicone cast.
Crafted completely by hand, the Three Legged Stool has an Ash Wood sculpted seat with a industrial felt overlay and three lathed legs from Walnut Wood.
Using the Solar Still as an inspiration, I have designed a container for emergency water supply. By putting leaves or other organic material in the container, the condensation will collect onto the top of the container, and drip down to the base where fresh water will be collected. After twisting off the cap, the user can pour unfiltered water (lake or rain if comes across) and pour it over the filter, which will then be dripped into the base.
The Collapsable Rocking stool consists of 4 different parts. CNC-ed Baltic Birch Ply, a Nylon Canvas sown together with Industrial Felt in the interior for additional support, hand lathed Walnut Wood with machine nuts for disassembly and Brass grommets as support for the fabric.
The Light Decor was CNC Plasma cut from 16 gauge sheet metal, bent with a Hossfeld Bender, mig welded together to create a modern decorative light piece.
A Lamborghini inspired Whiskey Bar Set created in Solidworks. The surfaces of the container represents the hood of a Lamborghini with its sharp angular facets while maintaining a sleek curvature.
Cut out of a single piece of bristol paper with a blade for each shape, the Geometry Cutout was a study of shadow and shape with a size around 6cm x 6cm x 6cm.
