About me
Chang Hee Lee is a designer whose work mostly revolves around industrial design. Using different products as mediums, he pursues a variety of design experimentations with the desire to broaden possible future design channels. Of particular importance in his work is the relationship between design and consumer culture, a theme he investigates to understand what types of design we find acceptable. As such, Lee attempts to challenge our concept of what ‘design’ is. To achieve these aims, his current designs focus on synaesthetic experience in relation to designed artifacts. His experiments in this field have led him to investigate a variety of sources such as fictional gadgetry, immateriality, mental images, neuroscience and so on. Most of his works are self-funded, but he also positively engages with relevant industry subsidized projects.
He is a graduate of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, and obtained his Master’s in Design Critical Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) under the supervision of Dr John Stevens and Dr Dan Lockton at the Royal College of Art (RCA).
Chang Hee Lee is one of the Design Council’s Ones to Watch: this list of the 70 most talented emerging designers in the UK was recently announced as part of the Design Council’s 70th anniversary celebrations.
Projects
- PortalThis design experimentation intends to create a relationship between touch and vision by contemplating the concept of heat as a form of touch. More specifically, the design concept is to use the hazing effect created by warm air at a store entrance in cold weather. The hazing effect is created when the warm air, produced by four custom heating pipes near the entrance, makes contact with the cold air. The haze, the invisible property of heat turned into a visual dimension, allows the heating effect of the inside to be seen from the outside.
- NovaNova is a radiator-heating unit, mostly built by titanium and aluminum. It is a design that intends to manifest an essential aspect and identity of heat in a synaesthetic and typological expression. The surface of the heater would constantly interact with the growing heat from the bottom, and it would dramatically accumulate and record itself with the natural pattern of the expanding heat on the outer surface of the heater. The exquisite marriage between the functional element and its material feature creates a complete synaesthetic juxtaposition of the object, almost creating an ‘aura’ to the object identity.
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Work history
Designer
PhD candidate in Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art.
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Skills
- Furniture
- Product
- Design Strategy
- Prototyping
- Creative Direction
- Design Research
- Design Thinking
- Innovation
- Making
Awards
70 Ones to Watch: Design Council
Meet 70 rising design stars that we think represent the future of British design.
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Today's Figure: major social media, DAUM, South Korea
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