Ruifeng Tang

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About

I am a product & furniture designer based in London and China. I am currently studying the MA program at the Royal College of Art.

I am interested in working in many different areas of design. I also hope to learn as many techniques and processes as possible. I like to observe the interaction between objects and people or the interaction between objects. This allows me to rethink and explore more possibilities of the design.

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Statement

Repetitive, inefficiency, chaotic, exhaustion

People are forced to work from home during the lockdown, and the attitude toward WFH goes from novelty to exhaustion. Repeated life and work day after day in a limited space.

The living space can neither be filled by life nor work. There has to be a balance between work&life.

Therefore I hope to make the audience realize that we can't live out of balance. And rethink, exploring living in a limited space, and try hard to have a clear boundary between work and life.

Inflatable Space

Film — Repetitive, inefficiency, chaotic, exhaustion People are forced to work from home during the lockdown, and the attitude toward WFH goes from novelty to exhaustion. The living space can neither be filled by life nor work. There has to be a balance between work&life. Therefore I hope to make the audience realize that we can't live out of balance. And rethink, exploring living in a limited space, and try hard to have a clear boundary between work and life.
Room Display
Room Display
Work Area
Work Area — Alarm/Inflating controller
Work Area
Work Area — Keyboard&Touchpad
Relax Area
Relax Area — Inflatable Bean Bag

This project is called inflatable space, and it is about finding boundaries between work & life in limited space.

The pandemic has blended our work lives and home lives. The novelty of jumping into a different pace of life turns over time into a state of slackness, distraction, and unplanned. The line between working time and personal time becomes blurred.

Medium: PVC, Silicon, PLA

Technical Drawing

Room Plan
Room Plan
How it works
How it works — After you have planned your day, set the alarm. The air pump has been activated, and the keyboard and trackpad in the work area will slowly shrink. At this point, the rest area represented by Bean Bag starts to inflate slowly and becomes an inflated sphere. Bean Bag no longer comfortable to sit on it. When your working time is up, the keyboard will begin to inflated and your hands will begin to move away from the keyboard. That's the
IKEA Floor Plan
IKEA Floor Plan — The ideal place to display my work is a place like IKEA. It allows people to closely experience “inflatable space”. The moving furniture and working devices interact with the audience, can bring a new living experience to the audience.
Details of Prototype
Details of Prototype

Interactive Packaging

ASMR Unboxing — ASMR, the phenomenon of inducing sensory tingles from sounds.
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Matched
Matched
Expanding
Expanding

In this Interactive Package Project, I would like to enhance the interaction between people and packages. It aims to design a good unpacking experience and bring a better image to the brand. 

During the lockdown, purchases through the internet were made more frequently than usual. I realized that how a brand's products are packaged is crucial to the brand. Because we shop online, we lose the service that we should have enjoyed in stores. In its place is our unpacking experience.

Medium: Paper, Greyboard