Sung Jang to participate in Chicago Design Exchange: Critical Pitch
Chicago Design Exchange hosts the inaugural Critical Pitch -— a confab of top creative and entrepreneurial talent from design, business, art, engineering, architecture, and technology programs across Chicago.
Wednesday, March 5, 6:30p
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, IL 60610
MOBI: Sung Jang + Zach Pino
Modular design systems offer tremendous advantages to the designer and user: flexibility, easy manufacturing, and structural strength. These advantages, however, come with a cost: modular systems rely on mechanical attachment and predictable geometry to construct forms that are visually noisy, dense, and inelegant. Inspired by work done on several modular toy designs, Mobi is a modular design system created to address these deficiencies. Mobi units stack in three-dimensions flexibly with non-obvious joints, flowing lines, and a natural form reminiscent of Melville's whale's tail. Mobi aims to embody the extravagant elegance of a truly beautiful module, without mechanical interference. The current Mobi unit has been refined through rounds of 3D-printed prototypes into a flowing form that is aesthetically pleasing, volume-generating, and structurally promising. Mobi clusters are envisioned for applications at object-scale, to produce furniture and lighting, as well as architectural-scale, to serve as support and facing for built structures.
SUNG JANG
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Design
Sung Jang Laboratory
ZACH PINO
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Design
Sung Jang Laboratory
ZACH PINO
School of the Art Institute of Chicago