Beginning with a shared studio
Gewu brought people from different disciplines into one working space. He Fa mainly handled market and communication work while bringing a photographer’s perspective into daily discussions.
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Gewu Studio | Twelve Water Lamps
A studio chapter from 2012
2012–2013
- Year
- 2012–2013
- Medium
- Studio collaboration, 3D printing and product design
- Role
- Co-founding member; market work and design feedback
In 2012, He Fa participated in co-founding Gewu Studio, working on the market side and contributing to design discussions. Twelve Water Lamps was created by Song Bowen.
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Project statement
Gewu Studio was founded in 2012. As a co-founding member, He Fa mainly worked on the market side and also contributed to design discussions. Photography, product design, 3D printing and communication unfolded in the same studio.
Twelve Water Lamps was Song Bowen’s 2012 graduation project at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Referring to Ma Yuan’s Twelve Views of Water, it used parametric modelling and 3D printing to turn water patterns into lighting forms, and was exhibited at Beijing’s LiangDian Design Center from December 2012 to January 2013.
PROJECT NOTES
In 2012, Gewu Studio brought photography, design, 3D printing and product communication onto the same worktable.
He Fa participated in co-founding Gewu Studio, working on the market side and contributing to design discussions. During the same period, Song Bowen completed Twelve Water Lamps, translating water patterns from Ma Yuan’s Twelve Views of Water into 3D-printed lighting forms.
Twelve Water Lamps by Song Bowen
Song Bowen developed the work through a study of Ma Yuan’s Twelve Views of Water. Twelve water patterns were modelled into lighting forms with different folds, relief and ways of transmitting light.
Water patterns enter 3D printing
Digital models turn two-dimensional water patterns into continuous surfaces. 3D printing retains the fine layered texture and allows light to pass from within the form.
WORKING PROCESS
Co-found
Take part in establishing Gewu Studio and its early work in 2012.
Market work
Work on product communication, market outreach and external connections.
Design discussion
Contribute to studio discussions from a photographic and visual perspective.
Exhibition communication
Twelve Water Lamps was exhibited at Beijing’s LiangDian Design Center from December 2012 to January 2013.
PROJECT DETAILS
A line through the work
This period brought photography, product design, 3D printing and market work into one studio, and became an early step in He Fa’s movement from images toward space and live situations.
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