Journey Through Local Industry

As a candidate of Master of Arts, Taehun Ko pursued the manufacturing process to understand and be inspired by actual industry in the United Kingdom. He is always interested in communication with manufacturers in order to design products since he was in South Korea. In work-in-progress show 2014, Royal College of Art, he presented a seating object made out of 1mm mild steel looks like a saddle. This object is pressed and rolled to the shape for three-dimensional structure that people can sit on it. With several experiments and indirect research, he remind his own interests on delight of designing objects, and decided to visit the manufacturers around London. Series of his thesis project – A.P.B, E.M.S, L.S.F.C- are the results of this research that make him back to his original delightful moments of interaction with makers.