Sun Chan Hwang, got an award in the red dot design award: product design 2012.

  • 12.12.07 / 최규찬



Metal craft artist Sun Chan Hwang (major in Sculpture in the College of Art‘98, Metalwork&Jewelry Graduate School ‘05) got an award in thereddot design award: product 2012, which is a very famous contest exhibition in the world.

The reddotdesignaward is a high authority contest exhibition among theIF(International Forum Design Award)and the IDEA (Industrial Design Excellent Awards). It has been giving artists awards in 3 areas, such as product design, communication design and design concepts since 1995. Mr. Hwang got an award in product design in2009 and 2012 as well.
This Prize-winning work is called ‘Gagay’. This is adesign of a model like cutting paper with scissors by giving astylishand modernimage because of the use of a material called titanium in an interesting paper glasses form. Mr. Hwang directed the visualimage of paper glasses thatlooked like thick paper byusing theadvantage of titanium, alightweightand strongmaterial. Specifically the hinges which appearedsimplewere more impressive and showed us aunique style of origami. The Gagay is apparently simple but he has put his own his technique into it. For the joints, instead of using soldering orwelding he used a special kind ofbending.The glasses form was light, special and comfortable more than any other ones.

 

His list of awards or exhibitions
-2012 REDDOT AWARD: product design winner/ Germany
-2009 22nd INTERNATIONAL OPTICAL FAIR TOKYO (IOFT)/Japan
-2009 REDDOT AWARD: product design honorablemention/ Germany
-2008~2010 Studiosoonopen studio named:‘draw a line on a face’ / Seoul
-2007 ‘2007 AutumnSpecial Exhibition’ Craft Dream 2007 / Seoul, ChilwooCraft Museum
-2007 Alchemists (table ware) /Seoul, Jang Restaurant
-2007 500 Metal Vessels published work / New York, Lark Books
-2006 15th Sliver Triennial international silver triennial / Germany, traveling exhibition
-2006 Art Jewelry Exhibition for Men /Seoul, Lock Museum
-2005 CheongjuBiennale International Exhibition / Cheongju
-2005 Alchemists (Box) / Seoul InsaartCenter
-2003 15th German Young Talent Competition for Gemstone and Jewelry Design / Germany
-2003 ModernArt Jewelry Exhibition / Seoul, Korea Craft, Design Foundation

Sun Chan Hwang, got an award in the red dot design award: product design 2012.



Metal craft artist Sun Chan Hwang (major in Sculpture in the College of Art‘98, Metalwork&Jewelry Graduate School ‘05) got an award in thereddot design award: product 2012, which is a very famous contest exhibition in the world.

The reddotdesignaward is a high authority contest exhibition among theIF(International Forum Design Award)and the IDEA (Industrial Design Excellent Awards). It has been giving artists awards in 3 areas, such as product design, communication design and design concepts since 1995. Mr. Hwang got an award in product design in2009 and 2012 as well.
This Prize-winning work is called ‘Gagay’. This is adesign of a model like cutting paper with scissors by giving astylishand modernimage because of the use of a material called titanium in an interesting paper glasses form. Mr. Hwang directed the visualimage of paper glasses thatlooked like thick paper byusing theadvantage of titanium, alightweightand strongmaterial. Specifically the hinges which appearedsimplewere more impressive and showed us aunique style of origami. The Gagay is apparently simple but he has put his own his technique into it. For the joints, instead of using soldering orwelding he used a special kind ofbending.The glasses form was light, special and comfortable more than any other ones.

 

His list of awards or exhibitions
-2012 REDDOT AWARD: product design winner/ Germany
-2009 22nd INTERNATIONAL OPTICAL FAIR TOKYO (IOFT)/Japan
-2009 REDDOT AWARD: product design honorablemention/ Germany
-2008~2010 Studiosoonopen studio named:‘draw a line on a face’ / Seoul
-2007 ‘2007 AutumnSpecial Exhibition’ Craft Dream 2007 / Seoul, ChilwooCraft Museum
-2007 Alchemists (table ware) /Seoul, Jang Restaurant
-2007 500 Metal Vessels published work / New York, Lark Books
-2006 15th Sliver Triennial international silver triennial / Germany, traveling exhibition
-2006 Art Jewelry Exhibition for Men /Seoul, Lock Museum
-2005 CheongjuBiennale International Exhibition / Cheongju
-2005 Alchemists (Box) / Seoul InsaartCenter
-2003 15th German Young Talent Competition for Gemstone and Jewelry Design / Germany
-2003 ModernArt Jewelry Exhibition / Seoul, Korea Craft, Design Foundation

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