Luma is a series of toys designed by a pair of students from National University of Singapore in 2012.
This group of toys consist of 6 miniature vehicles which will shine and glow when exposed to light.
It pushes ordinary night time story telling to a more exciting dimension.

"Swing" is one of the projects presented for a design platform titled WOOD, led by Hans Tan.

"Swing" is a reminder of how people brought life to the National Stadium, and the happiness it resonated amongst the people. Wood from the Stadium brings association to the swing as it uses the same wood, and emphasises on the importance of human participation. The Stadium and its participants are represented by the swing and the people that set the swing in play. This play triggers happiness and embeds a connection to people. As the play subsides, the swinging dissipates. Thus, the existence of the Stadium diminishes along with its declining participants.

Chew Jia Ying, Albert Lee, Corina Tan

STITX is a sitck-on organizer for your belongings and gadgets necessary for work on-the-go, bringing you convenience by sitting snugly at the back of your laptop, reducing the clutter of things on the already-tiny workspaces. Made so slim, you can leave STITX on your laptop and still pop it into your bag effortlessly.

Jesse Nicholas Chan, Jin Zhuoyan

PotatoPlay is an exploration of potatoes resulting in a series of potato-creations that challenge a potato's typical outcomes. Each creation offers a uniquely playful experience through its form, taste, and way of eating.

Student: Cheng Siew Ming

Individual Honor's Thesis Project
2011, 8 months


Life Rescue - Water Rescue Equipment

A conventional lifebuoy weighs up to 2.5kg. Rescuers have trouble running with the buoy and it is tough to aim and throw a conventional lifebuoy accurately to a drowning victim. The rescue is only efficient at approximately 10 meters.

Life Rescue, a compacted and lightweight water rescue equipment enables a more efficient and effective water rescue up to 20 meters. Upon landing on water, the dissolving pill within the mechanism triggers the firing of pin towards the gas cylinder; which in turns inflates the compacted inflatable buoy that is wrapped around the handle.

It is suitable to be used by both the experienced lifeguards and inexperienced passersby.

Designers: Alfred Lim, Chen Zhuo and Wang Ying Hsuan

Be Watched is a project that serves no tangible function.
However, It gives one FUN and ENGAGEMENT while he/she feels bored at waiting.

Student: Lionel Lum, Alfred Lim

A collection of doors with a blackboard attached at the back, on which imagination takes place.

Inspired by the concept of "Door to Another World", we want to design a space behind the DOORS for kids to create their own wonderland.

To make these doors more magical, they can be pasted and detached from anywhere, just where kids feel magic is gonna happen.

Mateen Jumli, Low Jue Ming

A Modular System for Cosmetic Display and Road Show.
NUSDID in collaboration with Scental, L'Oreal Luxury Products Division.

Wong Shue Ting Rachel

The task on hand was to design a final product that was also able to convey a story to the audience. In this case, we were given the wood from the Kallang National Stadium benches to work with. The challenge for us was to be able to balance between the narrative and the process of making the final object and to ensure that it effectively told our individual stories.

Kenneth Ang, May Lee

A retail concept done in collaboration with the L'Oreal Scental Group. The concept must be collapsible to an area of 3m² and be able to be transported and set up in several places.

Tracking and finding baggages easily upon arriving with RFID technology, streamlining traveler's journey through the domestic terminal

Raymond Hon
Marshall Leong

Based on the exploration of how Dieter Rams' 10 Design Principles can be applied to current, real industrial design, our project began by identifying a need to move personal belongings on bicycles.

Drawing on the two key insights of adaptability and sense of assurance, gained from research and interviews, our final design outcome is a rear-mounted bicycle rack that caters to young adults commuting to school or work via bicycles; needing a secure and adaptive carrier system to move their personal belongings.

The wear of ages past has bestowed upon the wooden planks a grain whose magnificence is downplayed by its disintegrating and deteriorating physical boundary. The gesture of a clear cast literally frames said boundary in another, eliciting the very value of a plank, as is. By inviting visual ingestion and disconnecting it from physical contact, the original form of each plank now harmonises with the precious patterns of the grain.

Sometimes, we gain more considering what we can give the material rather than what it can give us.

Yeo Ker Siang, Raymond Hon Sui Ming, Syed Atif Husain

Based on a theme of designing for context, market and trend studies form the basis for the project direction that caters for a specific set of users in the current climate.

In response to smaller living spaces and an increasing penchant for modest luxury, the iron is reinterpreted to its essentials with an extension for an additional affordance of hanging in the wardrobe.

Student: Chan Min Yun

Although being able to afford medication means that one is well taken care of, the notion of medication has always been dreaded.

Three common medicines, amoxicillin (antibiotic for children), acetaminophen (menstrual relief) and paracetamol (pain relief and fever) are repackaged to bloom in water while releasing the medicine before it is consumed.

The experience of watching the blooming medicine serves as a form of emotional relief in addition to physical relief from the medication; by slowing down our pace, creating a moment to take a breather, and reflect on what we are blessed with.

Luxury is feeling blessed in the face of adversity.

Student: Bill Maher

This single-seater concept car aims to address issues of fuel efficiency and environmental impact. Hence, this single rear-wheel drive car is designed to be lighter and runs on Gas-to-Liquid fuel, an alternative energy source. In addition, it is developed with a low rolling resistance allowing it to freewheel without consuming any fuel upon reaching a certain speed.

Student: Bob Jordan

Working within the constraint and possibilities offer by the process of laser cutting and the material of sheet metal, students are asked to develop a project that is of value and worth making within the context of today’s domestic environment. Elements are highly structural but concurrently highly sensual and fluid when pieced together one more line of text.

Nicolette Tan, Lew Yun Tong

A retail concept done in collaboration with L'Oreal Scental. The concept must be collapsible to an area of 3m² and able to be transported and set up in several places.

"Pillars of support" provides a sense of space with just the essentials. The pillars are the fundamental support system of interdependence - The attraction point from afar, the anchoring strength and also the source of light.

Afzal Imram, Carolyn Phuar

Focusing on motivating diabetic patients to maintain a healthy diet, we have developed a concept for a mobile application that, with the help of visual pattern recognition technology, targets the three aspects of healthy eating; deciding what ingredients to use/buy, how to cook these ingredients and to monitor daily intake of food.

Designers: Tan Boon Han,Yew Jing Yuan

A new food concept that encourages mindful and conscious dieting.

Designer: Joanne Low

A Patterned Lighting done in collaboration with RISIS.

Desingers: Eason Chow, Hwang Jie Wei

A new photography experience for tourist to leave their memorable mark on various tourist attractions!

Designers: Lee Hui Yi May, Ng Xu Yuan

N'QUE SYSTEM
Powered by RFID technology, N’QUE system aims to maximise busy gym-goers, particularly the working adults’ workout time. This is done by allowing them to better manage their time spent in the gym, which is often compromised by waiting for equipment.

Designers: Ivan Tan, Loke Ying Zhen

As obesity in younger generation is on the rise and the link with diabetes is firmly established. This project aims for a holistic approach to tackle the problems in people's diet which is closely linked to their health.

Designers: Lionel Lum, Yang Tzu-Hsuan

Glucoshare is a social dietary management application for diabetic patients to store their blood glucose test data for eat-outs. It also share the data of blood glucose level data tested by users into a central network, in which the users can tap on to estimate the food's reaction to body, to formulate a community and bond people of similar backgrounds, and leveraging on overseas data for travelling purposes.

Haikal Aziz

The Kallang Wave is perhaps the most iconic creation borne out from the National Stadium. Singaporeans of all ages and strata in society have been involved in the conception of it, while attending football matches or National Day performances.

All that was required to activate the Kallang Wave was the initiation of a few people and in some cases, by just one individual. Once triggered, the Kallang Wave spreads rapidly, sparking off a rush of anticipation, excitement and desire in all present to participate in it and keep the wave in continuous motion.

The exhilaration generated by this collective involvement of everyone present connected everyone from all parts of the stadium, be it the Grandstand or the gallery, and unified all that participated in it together in harmony. This concept of a singular trigger, translated into a cumulative visual display is similarly seen in this work, taken from the benches of the National Stadium itself, which can be triggered to replicate this truly Singaporean experience.

Raymond Hon

Instead of just using the wood as a material to tell a story about the National Stadium, this project aims to be true to the material by respecting the wood as it is in its weathered condition. A tribute to the National Stadium to celebrate its 37 years of history, preserving the traces left behind from the 37 years of weather for future generations to touch and feel.