John Leung. Design.

The Magic Carp-pet, Live.

Administrator — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:10:56 +0000

Finally, a live video of the Magic Carp-pet Rug! Taken at the Red Dot Design Awards 2011. The video has received 100000+ hits in three days!

Press Release

Administrator — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:37:44 +0000

The Press Release page has just been updated with many magazine and newspaper articles on John Leung and his design works. Check them out!

John Leung @ RedDot Design Award 2011

Administrator — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:57:17 +0000

John Leung received the RedDot : Best of the Best award for his “Magic Carp-pet” Rug in Singapore on the weekend. Please head to his Facebook Fan Page to see all the videos & photos from the event!

RedDot Winner : Best of the Best

Administrator — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:35:02 +0000

John Leung’s “Magic Carp-pet. Rug.” has just been awarded the world prestigious RedDot Design Award : Best of the Best 2011. Click here to see the magical rug again! Only a few of Hong Kong designers have ever got this award. John Leung will be attending the awards ceremony in Singapore on 25 November 2011. Meet him there.

About Red Dot design award : The red dot design award is an international product design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners being presented in an annual ceremony. Winning products are presented in the red dot design museum on the premises of the historical Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen. The “red dot design award” has more than 11,000 submissions from 61 countries.

Fujitsu – Flying PC. (2011)

Administrator — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:50:54 +0000

Flying PC was amongst the top 100 shortlisted designs in the 2011 Fujitsu design competition - “a life with future computing: life-design category” which attracted 3354 entries from around the world.

In 2020, even the hardware is a PUSH service! This Flying PC follows you like an autonomous robot – so you can forget all about carrying and charging. It’s light enough to fly using multi-rotor technology because the PC doesn’t have CPU or HDD! These are stored in the Cloud Server Farms then outputs are transmitted to this PC terminal via 5G. The “Hardware PUSH service” is the next revolution beyond Cloud Computing – here, the PC literally delivers itself to you.

Essentially, you carry 0.0kg and don’t need to care about charging. It’s a PC with unlimited HD size & CPU power because they are all in the Cloud. It’s an A.I. personal assistant and a friend, with a mind of its own, that delivers itself to you. Your everyday activity & imagination will no longer be restricted by external & internal limitations of the hardware. It’s called… the Flying PC.

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Bill Gates. & John Leung. Design.

Administrator — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:08:04 +0000

The official announcement of MADE in China PC by Bill Gates in WinHEC 2007. To celebrate the launch of John Leung. Design. we have uploaded the original video press release! Revisit the revolutionary PC design here.

Deception of Reflection. Mirror. (2011)

Administrator — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:39:32 +0000

Reflection is deceptive. How you see yourself in the mirror is somehow different to how people see you or how you appear in photos and portrayals – both physically and perceptually. Your frame of mind is one of the many factors that determine the intensity of the deception.

As an analogy of this phenomenon, the “Deception of Reflection” Mirror is designed – an ordinary mirror with an extraordinary mirror frame. The frame’s reflection is somehow different to itself!!

No, it’s not a trick mirror or a funny mirror. This effect, which works with any mirror, is created by a special honeycomb surface on the frame, manufactured using coloured 3D printing. Two different colours are embedded into each of the concaved honeycomb cell walls so that at most viewing angles, our eyes see one colour and the mirror reflects another. The optical illusion serves as a reminder that, whenever one reviews oneself, bias exists depending on your frame of mind and point of view.

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Deception of Reflection. “Diversity”
This design is a portrayal of those organizations which see themselves as embracing diversity while still operating in a homogeneous culture.

Deception of Reflection. “Green”
This design is a portrayal of those organizations which see themselves as a green organization while they continue to pollute.

Deception of Reflection. “Youth”
This design is a portrayal of those organizations which have long histories but only see their glorious and beautiful past and ignored their immediate and corroded conditions. This is represented with a rusted surface that has a clean and crisp reflection in the mirror.

The special honeycomb surface, created by colour 3D printer, enables the optical illusion. It will be extremely difficult to use hand-colouring to achieve the precision required.

John Leung. Design. has launched!

Administrator — Mon, 16 May 2011 07:22:54 +0000

John Leung. Design. has finally launched! Add us on Twitter, Weibo or become a fan on Facebook to get the latest updates about our new illusive designs! Many new designs are on their way!

Pre-Launch Preview. Welcome.

Administrator — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:20:26 +0000

Welcome to the pre-launched preview of our website. “John Leung. Design.” is a new brand established by the AARIVE Designers Collective, featuring the illusive works of John Leung. Enjoy the designs and don’t forget to add us on Facebook, Twitter & Weibo.

Bias of Thoughts. Bookshelf. (2011)

Administrator — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:40:35 +0000

The “Bias of Thoughts” Bookshelf has become an internet viral sensation, exceeding 50,000 views in one month on Youtube alone. It was featured in major online media including Designboom, Asylum, Neatorama, Walyou, CubeMe & Trend Hunter.

Thoughts are biased. When ideas are passed from one person to another, due to the transfiguration of the communication process and the frame of mind of the receiver, they are always perceived with bias.

Inspired by the famous 2D drawing of the optical illusive bookshelf, a 3D structure is translated and the “Bias of Thoughts” bookshelf is formed. It can be used for shelving books and iPads as well as hanging magazines. Visually, the optical illusion serves as a reminder that, whenever one picks up a medium, ideas can be misinterpreted when passed from one end to the other.

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Four shelves on the left.

Three shelves on the right.

There are really just two shelves.