MOBILE ART COMPETITION

HAPPENINGText: Yurie Hatano

Naoya Yoko (Japan)
Graphic designer. Born in Yamagata, Japan in 1976. Currently working as “agasuke”.

Work title: “gradation and border”
I wanted to make it like a carving, which changes its shape as the time goes. The borderline between start-point and end-point of color gradation is the clock-hands indicating the current time.

Predrag Stakic (Serbia)
Born in 1978 and still alive. Laughing and suffering in Belgrade.

Passionate but harmonious,
smart but emotional,
sexy but spiritual,
friendly but individual,
nice but not naive,
dreamer but rational,
creative but lazy,
charming but honest,
unusual young man
looking for a soul mate,
or at least cooperation for the common sake.

Work title: “Just…WATCH! ok?”
Witty, backhanded warning “BETTER WATCH”

Naohiko Furuya (Japan)
Graphic designer. Experienced the greatness and the possibility of design in London. Returned home country Japan after that. Looking for how to see things to enjoy in everyday life.

Work title: “Pyramids and The Sun”
When I pause to think of time, I realize that it’s the thousands of years of human living, and relationship between the earth and the sun.

Pakpoom Lamoonpan (Thailand)
Was Born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1979. Graduated from Faculty of Visual Communication Arts, Silpakorn University in 2001.Have been working as Graphic Designer since then.At 2004 established a design group with friends,Good Citizen. Now living in Tokyo for furthur study and still working as Graphic Designer together with an Illustrator as a team in the name of Sorry-sorry.

Work title: “tik-talk”
I saw these balloons in japanese manga and I love these symbols.I don’t know who is the first one created them but i think these are very good design.You can say this work tribute to its greatness. Maybe it represent myself living with Japanese environment, that everyone talking and I don’t understand any of them.

Jan Roth (UK)
Age 36. Grown up in Berlin. Diverse background from different design industries. Currently based in London and working on retail projects.

Work title: “WorldClock2 * the global companion”
Inspired by airport flight displays- World Clock2’s primary design components are: the local time display and a global location list. Its rational for development is based on offering a time device for mobile users in international environments.

HENG WhooKiat (Singapore)
An alumni of Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, Kiat is an experimental architect/designer currently based in Singapore. A founding member of Po.D, his architectural research with Po.D has travelled to major European museums and events such as the Vitra Museum, Museu de les Arts Decoratives of Barcelona and Archilab. More recently, Po.D’s work on mobile architecture – Nomambule, iNSTANT eGO and NOLO – were exhibited at the Hangaram Design Museum in Seoul. Together with Cheryl HENG, Kiat is also part of beanbagbeanpaste – an artistic duet. beanbagbeanpaste blends music to choreography to design and even philosophy. Past works include experiments and research on dynamic spaces and sensorial perception. On his own, Kiat also writes in thinktankthinktank – a tankful of ideas charging forward. Thoughts and ideas on thinktankthinktank originate from his research ranging from architecture, design, urbanism to cultural-socio-economic analysis. Besides the above, Kiat works, for subsistence, in public policy for arts & heritage development …

Work title: “Lark”
Clocks have evolved from measuring time to being fashion statements. Today, mobile phones have the luxury of multiple-interfaced clocks. In a mobile phone, one can usually choose between interfaces such as analog, digital, calendar, stopwatch, countdown timer, etc. “Lark” was inspired by recent published research on our bodyclock. Some people are Morning Larks (rise early, rest early), whilst others are Night Owls (rise late, rest late). Each of them has respectively different peak levels at different times of the day. “Lark” attempts to give the mobile phone a main clockface with secretarial interface in helping time management as many of us experience less and less time to do more and more things. Important points of the day where our body may peak or face fatique/difficulty in performing certain tasks are emphasized with bolder and brighter numbers and hands. For example, a Morning Lark better performs creative and analytical tasks from 0600 – 1300hrs and from1500 – 1700hrs. Since someome at rest is not likely to look at the clock in detail, if at all, the clockface then fades out from 1700hrs onwards when the body slips into rejuvenation and resting modes. A similar clockface can be imagined for a Night Owl, with other variations in colours and fonts.

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Text: Yurie Hatano

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