We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Ellen Zhu about their original and creative Accessory design work. Ellen Zhu is an award-winning fashion designer, that makes our world a better place with their original accessory works.
Ellen Zhu ("EZ") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Heart Ring Accessory. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
EZ : This design is a set of stackable rings inspired by Chinese Characters that contain the word "heart" as its radical. Rings have always been provided with symbolic meanings since ancient time. There's an old say in Chinese "Men's ten fingers are linked to the heart", this shows the intimate connection between the fingers and "heart".
EZ : Designed a set of stackable rings inspired by Chinese Characters that contain the word “heart” as its radical. The rings can be combined into different Chinese characters according to the wearer's mood and feelings. So no matter where people are from, what language they speak can all enjoy the beauty of Chinese Character.
EZ : I would like to further develop it, because I think the work has a great malleability, can be extension into a range of interesting design.
EZ : This project starts in June 2016 and finished in August 2016.
EZ : I want to invite more people to enjoy the beauty of Chinese character.
EZ : Experience an interactive method for people to play with Chinese characters.
EZ : people who are interested in Chinese culture.
EZ : The biggest challenge of this project was how to design Chinese character into a much more interesting form, as it is one of the most difficult but beautiful characters, I wish more people can have the chance to come into contact with it. Therefore I thought to integrate it with everyday object will be a simple and effective way, ultimately I decide to use ring as the main body, because ring is one of the most common accessory in everyone‘s daily life and have really close physical connection with human. To let the final work become more interesting and functional, I designed a range of stackable rings, to allow people to interact with the design.
