Update: Yong Joo Kim’s jewelry design

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设计师yong joo kim今年又有新作推出，并有了更多的产品上线，
如果大家喜欢，可以到这里去购买。

像豆子，吸管，别针，钉子，按扣，魔术贴，扎带，电雷管等物件被通常认为不美丽，并且没有价值。

设计师yong joo kim将这些平凡物件的价值挖掘出来，通过重新的组合装配展现出其隐藏的美丽。就拿魔术贴来说，广泛出现在鞋子，箱包，手表以及日用各种物件之中。设计师用新的视点将它分解组合，创造出与我们身体有联系的新形式。通过收集，分组，集合，归纳，把简单的元素变得不简单，并产生超乎想象的结果。佩戴在身上，这些首饰可以因视角不同而呈现出更多的魅力。

设计师yong joo kim专注于创新和转化物件的价值定义，并将在这一无限的领域创作下去。

Sublime Experiment
Photography by Seung Chan Lim

 

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Reconfiguring the Ordinary: Twist Looped and Linked
Materials ： Veclro Hook and loop fasteners
Modeled by Olivia Culpo / Photography by Daniel Gagnon

Providence, Rhode Island—Friday July 20, 2012—Niche award winning jewlery artist Yong Joo Kim today launched a Kickstarter project to introduce a new line of jewelry made primarily of hand-cut, hand-assembled, and hand-sewn Velcro hook-and-loop fasteners.

Yong Joo describes the design of her new line consisting of earrings, rings, brooches, and bracelets as having emerged from a deep sense of trust in the hidden potential of a seemingly ordinary material. She compares this process as being similar to that of the kind of trust she was endowed with by her parents.

The line is being introduced as part of a larger project titled Sublime Experiment, a small business platform designed to explore how artists can more proactively engage with the public in order to provoke meaningful questions around conventional notions of beauty and value.

The project will live on the Kickstarter website until Sep 18, 2012 with the goal of raising $10,000 to cover the production of custom eco-friendly packaging for the objects as well as custom tooling for the silver earring posts. For Further information about the project, please visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yongjookim/sublime-experiment

Reconfiguring the Ordinary : Twist Looped and Attached
Materials: Veclro Hook and loop fasteners, Thread
Modeled by Olivia Culpo / Photography by Daniel Gagnon

Think of beans, straws, pins, nails, velcro, snaps, cable ties, and electric caps. Theseobjects are not normally considered beautiful or valuable. I explore the value of such mundaneobjects, and discover their hidden beauty through a process of reconfiguration. Think of thevelcro: a long strip of rough, bland, and industrial object, seen on shoes, bags, watches, and atthe grocery store. As I pay close attention to it and its system of organization in myenvironment, I find new ways of looking, new ways of decomposing and composing them, andnew ways of creating a relationship between it and our body. My work introducesunconventional use of familiar artifacts into a world full of conventions.

Reconfiguring the Ordinary: Twist Looped, Pressed and Attached
Materials: Veclro Hook and loop fasteners, Thread
Modeled by Olivia Culpo / Photography by Daniel Gagnon

By assembling, grouping, clustering, and piling, the simple elements become complex, and give rise to the unexpected. As the wearer approaches my work, the experience of perspective shifts and sudden realizations spark wonder, discovery, tension, joy and play.

My investigation of creation, innovation, and transformation questions the definition of value, and provides a never-ending field for invention.

In Light of Space: Overlapped and Twice Spiraled (Left)/ In Light of Space: Overlapped and Once Spiraled (Right)
Materials: Veclro Hook and loop fasteners, Thread
Modeled by Olivia Culpo / Photography by Daniel Gagnon

In Light of Space: Overlapped and Raised by Four (Left)/ In Light of Space: Overlapped and Raised by Six (Right)
Materials: Veclro Hook and loop fasteners, Thread
Modeled by Olivia Culpo / Photography by Daniel Gagnon

In Light of Space: Overlapped and Raised by Six (Left)/ In Light of Space: Overlapped and Twice Spiraled (Right)
Materials: Veclro Hook and loop fasteners, Thread
Modeled by Olivia Culpo / Photography by Daniel Gagnon

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