Shawn Du
Mechanism-led industrial designer shaping physical products through research, fabrication, and interaction.
LIGHTING · FURNITURE · TOYS · OBJECTS / METAL · WOOD · PRINTED POLYMERSelected Works精选作品
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Profile简介
I'm Shawn — a maker first, designer always. My work lives where craft meets circuitry: draw-filed metal edges, steam-bent wood, kinetic lamps, and parts that hum off a 3D printer at 2 a.m. 审美 — the sense of what is beautiful — is my second language; Mandarin is my first.
Rising junior in Industrial Design at RISD. TA experience in the studio, a product design internship in Manhattan, and a workshop habit that spans the metal shop, the wood shop, and a small farm of Bambu Lab printers in my room.
I model in Rhino, prototype fast, and finish slow — because the last 5% of an object is where the feeling lives.
Process工艺
Metalworking
Draw filing, brazing, cold forming. Flat means flat — checked against the surface plate, not the eye.
Rhino + CAD
Surface modeling, unrolled sheet-metal blueprints for laser cutting, and files a shop can actually build from.
3D Printing
A three-printer Bambu Lab fleet (H2S · P1S · A1 mini). Tuned profiles, multi-material AMS, parts that fit first try.
Electronics
ESP32, sensors, and light. Objects that respond — kinetic lamps and IoT prototypes that do more than sit there.
Woodcraft
From xylophones to hammers. Grain-matched, hand-finished, and built to be held for a long time.
Photo / Video
Documentation is part of the design. Studio-lit process shots and product films, shot and cut in-house.
DEVELOPED IN THE RISD METAL SHOP, WOOD SHOP, AND ONE VERY BUSY DORM ROOM · 蓝图为证
Contact联系
Drawing ends here.
The work doesn't.
RESEARCH → MODEL → MAKE → TEST → REPEAT