nawon
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nawon.9.work@gmail.com / @nawonxxx+ Had some career experience as a in-house designer.
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2021 - 2023 : Social Design
Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), The Netherlands
2016 - 2019 : Product Design
Samsung Art and Design Institute (SADI), South Korea
2010 - 2016 : Visual Art
School Of The Arts, Singapore (SOTA), Singapore
구나원, A designer, researcher and craftsmaker.
Practices explore the idea of craft-making with a social system that is not often noticed. She tried to combine two opposite characteristic of materiality to create the newness value to the public, to the society.
Nawon was born in South Korea in 1996. She spent her teenage period in Singapore, experiencing a multi-cultural society. After graduation, she went back to South Korea, Seoul, to receive a professional education in product design. After a few years of studying electronic consumer products design and working as a brand in-house designer in lifestyle brands of South Korea, she decided to move to the Netherlands to explore more about the relationship between products and societal consumer behaviour.