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More Pu-Erh Dragonball Chromatography
While cleaning up for the Lunar New Year, I ran across more pu-erh dragonball chromatograms.
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Love, Land, and Chromatography
Last year, I learned how to do chromatography. You may be familiar with science class experiments where you apply a ground up plant or a marker to a piece of filter paper and watch as the colors in your sample separate out as capillary action carries them across the paper. In photography, chromatography is based…
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Shiitake Mushrooms
At the end of last year, I started growing my own oyster and shiitake mushrooms. Watching the shiitakes grow beyond the stage where you would normally pick them has showed me that I really didn’t know shiitakes like I thought. Their shapes can encompass so many frills and scallops that I don’t normally see in…
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The Cai Modeling Materials, MDes Thesis pt. 1
For my industrial design masters thesis at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I developed plastic-free modeling materials. Cai Board can serve as a replacement for extruded polystyrene foam. Cai Clay is an air-drying clay that is an alternative to plastic-based clays.
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FR Shields
Facial recognition software is becoming more and more ubiquitous.What if people started messing with CCTV cameras?Tricking them into thinking they’re an everyday person/celebrity hybrid?What if people showed up to government protests wearing a dictator’s face? This project was created in 2019. Thank you to Bansri Thakkar for modeling.
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Eating Myself
Chinese women and Chinese cuisine are fetishized and made palatable for the consumption of Westerners. I have a number of food allergies and intolerances that have cut me off from eating my grandmother’s food, my Chinese heritage. Experimenting with allergen-friendly versions of the dishes I grew up with is a way to reclaim my heritage.…
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Paper House
If we cannot raise manufacturing costs to ensure quality home goods and we cannot teach millions of people to suddenly take care of what they have, what if we instead filled our homes with paper? Unlike in the past, when families would live together their whole lives or gift newlyweds with heritage furniture, many people…
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The Bentwood Bedroom Collection
How can 19th c design relate to modern lives? Many chairs from 19th c Western countries look uncomfortable by today’s standards because people sat differently then. Letting their backs touch the backs of chairs was an example of very poor breeding. Today, everyone tends to lounge in chairs. But chairs in bedrooms are more often…
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Grocery Backpack
What if we brought all our own packaging to grocery stores? The grocery backpack, created in 2020, doubles as a grocery basket. Extend one strap and wear the bag messenger style. Most cloth produce bags are rectangular, which lets food particles build up in the corners. The grocery backpack comes with rounded corners so as…
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Textural Translations
In some ways, we live in a more texturally diverse world than we did pre-Industrial Revolution, considering advances in technology combined with novel materials. But our textures tend to have a more shallow relief than they used to.
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