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Kelvin (Sung-Ching) Chang just completed his MA in Product Design at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, and he chose to address the “boredom and pressure” of your average white-collar desk jockey with “REconstruction,” a “concrete interactive accessory for office.”

REconstruction can transform the workers’ emotion to more pleasant with some feedbacks from products. There are four products stapler, calculator, tape dispenser and pen holder which are designed like building in a kit. Therefore, workers could organise whole products of kit what they prefer on the base like people build their own city. Concrete is a perfect material to present architecture and urban feeling. In this project, it is contrast thinking between concrete products and users. They will feel cold and unexciting at first sight with concrete accessories and then after use, they would understand how interesting inside the products with interaction.

In other words, the uninviting material belies a different interactive twist behind each item. It’s something like a quasi-brutalist subversion of Michael Roopenian’s “Engrain” keyboard… or, alternately, a playful counterpart to Shmuel Linski’s concrete speakers.

Where Philip de Los Reyes’ “Drafting Tools” are still in the glossy render phase, the office supplies of “REconstruction” practically beg to be used. Details after the jump…

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