Spotted! Fung Kwok Pan

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Product designer Fung Kwok Pan is one of the pioneering batches set to graduate from the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University in 2010.

Kwok Pan’s work explores forms in various degrees, relating to user interactions.  As such, his design processes range from building and experimenting with actual materials to careful observation of human behavior.  It is by treading on these fields with failures in between that his designs come into useful and meaningful existence.

About his UFO design: “Should we stand on a table?  Should we jump on a seat?  Taking inspiration from the undefined, UFO challenges the typology of furniture by inviting us to use it as we please – as a seat, a table, a pedestal or a stage, with the assurance of strength and structural integrity. The irony of modern products is a readiness to erase marks left by the making process, as though anything short of perfect smoothness is flawed.  By using the oxyacetylene torch to burn the edges, the piece is given a patina of survival as its finishing, accentuating the use of energy in its fabrication.”

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