Kao_YaunLung @ Portfolio

YUAN LUNG KAO PORTFOLIO

YUAN LUNG KAO

PORTFOLIO

Birthdate 19 August, 1988

Education

2010 - 2013 | Shin-Chien University | Taipei, Taiwan ( R.O.C. )

Fashion and Communications Design ( Division of Fashion Design )

Mater of Design

2007 - 2010 | Fu-Jan Catholic University | Taipei, Taiwan ( R.O.C. )

Textiles and Clothing ( Textile Design Section )

Bachelor of Science

2010 | University of the Arts London | London, UK

Fashion Design Term Course

Work Experience

2009.6 - 2009.8 | Shiuh-Huei Knitting Co., Ltd / Intern

2010.10 - 2010.06 | Johan Ku Design Ltd. / Design Assistant

2010.6 - 2010.12 | Fashion Institute of Taipei / Project Designer

2011.1 - 2011.6 | Wintex Knitwear Corp. / Knitwear Designer

2011.6 - 2011.9 | 361° ( China ) Co., Ltd. / Project Adviser

2010 - | Apu Jan Design Ltd. / Designer

Honors

2008 | The Scarf-Knitter Course Exhibition / Head of Advertisement Section

2008 | TSIA ( Taiwan Sweater Industry Association ) Knitwear Workshop

2009 | Misty Forest | The Project Of Interdisciplinary Art Exhibition / Exhibitor

2009 | Taipei Fashion Design Award / Prize of Good Design

2009 | Taipei Fashion Week

2010 | Being Fashion | Fu-Jan Catholic University Graduate Exhibition

/ Exhibitor, Head of Sweater Section, Team of Advertisement Section.

2010 | Being Fashion | Fu-Jan Catholic University Graduate Exhibition / First Prize

2010 | Misktaken, My Sadness | Exhibition of Creativity / Curator, Exhibitor.


2010 | Sweater Design Award / Quality Award

2011 | Fang-Yi Sheu & Costume | Interdisciplinary Art Exhibition / Curatorial Team, Exhibitor.

2011 | Sweater Design Award / First Prize

2012 | The Park Project by Dai Fujiwara | Exhibition / Exhibitor

2012 | Sweater Design Award / First Prize

2013 | Remodeling | Solo Exhibition

2013 | Ultra Bio | International Design Conference

2014 | Praxes | Design Journal

Yuan Lung Kao

ARCHAIC WARRIOR

5

ENVIRONMENTAL SYMBIOSIS

39

REMODELLING

57

MEDEA

85

ATLANTIS TRIBES

101

IN FILMS

121

OTHERS

137

NIKE x O’logy Magazine Commercial Project

Ultra Bio International Design Conference

Praxes Design Journal

CONTENTS

ARCHAIC

WARRIOR

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Archaic Warrior is a collection of works on my exhibition series. This series also won the Prize of Good Desing in

2009 Taipei Fashion Design Award, simultaneously issued on 2009 Taipei Fashion Week. The main concept came from

ancient Japanese warrior. Taiwan had become Japan’s colony for almost 50 years, and was influenced greatly by Japan

culture. This season is developed from the great sympathy and impact of Japan culture.

The main concept of Archaic Warrior came from samurai in traditional Japanese culture, a kind of soldier taking

combat as a career. I had not only researched samurai’s features, clothes silhouette and shape, and Zen of Japanese

architecture, but also discovered and explored the aesthetics of traditional Japanese culture. Then I use knitting skills to

re-interpret the clothes of ancient warriors.

Clothes are like sculptures. I recognized that knitting is one of Soft Sculpture skills, that includes carving the work of

clothes through stitch and yarn. In order to finish a sculpture, research, exploration and experiment are necessary. For

me, this kind of sculpture - clothes - not only transfer creative graphics, but also delivers the whole concept through

fabric, and ready-to-wear.

Archaic Warrior2009 | Taipei Fashion Design Award / Prize of Good Design


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Archaic Warrior | 2009 | Fashion Show in Taipei Fashion Week

Archaic Warrior | 2009 | Fashion Show in Taipei Fashion Week

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Archaic Warrior | 2010 | Misktaken, My Sadness Exhibition of Creativity

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ENVIRONMENTAL

SYMBIOSIS

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Conformity to the natural.

Accept natural.

Adapted to the natural.

Shinto, the natural indigenous religion of japan, thoughts about environment and nature.

Environmental Symbiosis is a series work of graduation exhibition. While environment is destructed, we’re seeking

an sustainable way to live with the environment, and it also prompts us to pay more attention to protect nature. The

thoughts on nature, Zen, of Shinto, Japanese religion, reminded me the symbiosis of surrounding environment.

This time I started with the material, researching the felting effect of wool jersey. The inspiration came from a pullover

that my grandma left, which was found in the closet after my grandma passed away. I researched the felted ratio of

wool jersey, washed the fabric again and again to make it felted then then recorded the results. I spent lots of time on

researching the process, to make the pure wool jersey felting in a perfect status under the condition of temperature,

rubbing fastness, and time. I expect that in the experiment process, the felted-wool jersey wore on human body could

be like a second skin. By the above process and experiments, I present the concept of environmental symbiosis.

Knitting, for me, is not merely a single skill. With the combination of various clothes technology, knitting can present

3D effect of different aspects. Many words are covered into knitting. Knitting, the turning point of industrial society,

contains the period feel and lots of emotion and feelings. If you give me some yarn, and I can give you a wonderland.

In this series, except for researching felted-wool jersey, also tried many draping and changes of structure. In the design,

from fabric design to cut, completely and comprehensively present the concept of this series, continue to examine the

design process, and entirely use fully fashioned knitting skill of knitting skills. The technique reduces the consumption

to the lowest, perfectly present the concept of environmental protection and environmental symbiosis.

Environmental Symbiosis 2011 | Being Fashion Fu-Jan Catholic University Graduation Exhibition / First Prize

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Environmental Symbiosis | 2011 | Fashion Show in Graduation Exhibition

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REMODELLlNG

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Remodelling is an art creation talking about relation of self and society, which is also part of my thesis. Remodelling

is a behavior, existing between ego and super-ego in psychology. We’re playing different roles in a society, building

different masks for different roles. According to different situation, we change the masks. The appearance of masks is

a process to socialization, and a setting of character as well as the personality. I defined the process as remodelling, the

second skin created by self and society.

Remodelling is an anxious emotion created by transitional object under the outer pressure and self-oppression. It’s an

abstract and conceptual creation that interprets anxious emotion in the inside and super-ego individuals built outside.

In research process, I studied a special fiber, called low-temperature formed yarn, which is often used in accessory

modelling. I present this series of clothes creation via the form of fiber art, and show depression and anxious emotion

in the remodelling process.

The research and creation of Remodelling cost lots of time in reading and analyzing, and fiber experimenting and

testing. In the experiment, the temperature-sensitive response and control cost lots of efforts. To start the creation, it

is a must to understand the factors like feature and material restrictions of low-temperature formed yarn. This time’s

creative method is different from the past, using an abstract and philosophizing way to create not via graphics and

creative thinkings, a completely different way of creative logic. Unlike the works using graphs and creative thoughts in

the past, this work was created with an abstract and philosophic way, which is a completely different logic of creation.

In the end, what is most important is to find the balance between creative clothes and practical clothes, which is also a

critical point of this creation. I take fiber art as a producing process to extend the issue to wearing possibility of clothes.

I think that good clothes can not merely transmit the creative concept but also break the established framework in order

to give clothes the possibility of wearable.

Remodelling2013 | Remodeling Solo Exhibition

2013 | Ultra Bio International Design Conference

2014 | Praxes Design Journal

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Remodelling | 2013 | Remodeling Solo Exhibition

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Shadow | 2011 | Film

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MEDEA

85

Medea is an interdisciplinary art exhibition of cloth creation coordinate with the modern dance choreographer Fang-Yi

Sheu. The motif of the exhibition is around the dramatic character of Greek mythology — Medea. In Greek mythology,

Medea was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife

to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king

of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce. The play tells of Medea avenging her husband's betrayal by slaying their

children.

Medea’s love and hatred, is so strong for the emotion of love. For me, Medea was a person who eager to be loved. She

had fame and wealth are the thing she had, but she was longing for love, like modern people hide in cities. If there were

no love how did we know about the hatred? Because Medea loved Jason too much, she revenged on him even killed

their children.

I tried to make a piece of fitted and coated high neck long dress with chiffon to present the inner emotion that Medea

wanted to be understood but she built a wall between her and people. While designing, I thought of the paintings of

Gustav Klimt(1862-1918) in Art Nouveau. Most of Klimt’s paintings are about women, including sex, love, birth and

death, which is common to the story and emotion of Medea. I added a covering cardigan coat for Medea’s clothes,

which Klimt’s painting and totem is on, as a piece of work representing the image sign of Medea’s appearance. I use

jacquard to present Klimt’s wooden-like totem and to symbolize Medea’s appearance, with shiny golden lining to

convey(express) Medea’s royal extravagance.

The project used the character of Greek mythology as the theme. In the exhibition, 7 designers are gathered to work

with Fang-Yi Sheu. With the same story background, they all express the way they see the story of Medea on clothes

designing, and discover different opinion and conversion of feelings. It was my first t ime designed costume to

connect with a play, which added more possibility of clothes. Also, this time I tried to use image with dance costume

performance to exhibit. With the combination of image, this exhibition shows the other possibility of clothes. Clothes

are not only the combination of the fabrics and material, but the significance of emotion that the creator gave.

Medea2011 | Fang-Yi Sheu & Costume Interdisciplinary Art Exhibition

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Medea | 2011 | Film

ATLANTIS

TRIBES

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The idea of Atlantis Tries came from Taiwan’s aborigines. Taiwan is an island, located on the border between the

Eurasian plate and the Philippine sea plate. Taiwan is surrounded by Pacific Ocean, just as Atlantis is. The story of

Atlantis comes to us from Timaeus, a Socratic dialogue, written in about 360 B.C. by Plat. Atlantis, also called Utopia, a

fantastic dream-like kingdom, blends diverse cultures and tolerates different races of different complexion. My research

focuses on Taiwanese aboriginal traditional clothes, in which includes the traditional clothes of Kayan ( also called

The Long Neck Tribe ) in North Thailand and minority in South Africa. I spent lots of time to researching features of

traditional clothes and totems.

Traditional folk costume contains lots of culture sign. Paiwan, one of aborigines in Taiwan, puts geometric figures on

clothes and tattoos a special pattern called chevron Tattoo on face to celebrate adulthood. Kayan people continuously

put iron rings on neck annually to keep the beautiful tradition. Ndebelet people in South Africa put arc-shaped

headwear on neck to celebrate victory on festival. In this series, I used the diverse ethnic symbols, patterns and clothes

outlined from the research to present the fantastic and diversity of Atlantis.

The process of creation is interesting. Developing not only clothes but metal craft, digital printings and other items,

even creating an original fantasy to go with this concept.

Atlantis Tribes2011 | Sweater Design Award / First Prize


Atlantis Tries | 2011 | Display in Taipei Fashion Week & Press

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IN

FILMS

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In Films was the work to participating in the Sweater Design Award in 2010. I was born in Taiwan in 1980s. In my

memory, whenever there was religious carnival, people would always set up the white screen to play the movie in front

of the temple. What was the most unforgettable to me was dancer’s body movement in the movie projected by the film

through light.

Nowadays, films give give people a retro image. Taking out rolls of films, I researched the 30’s fashion and dancing

style of tango to be closed to the time of memory the film gave us through the mottled old pictures. I tried to use film-

liked stripe knitted structure and brown and black crossover knitted weave to present retro features. The Clothes of

Tango, in 30's, decorating with many tassels. While the dancers danced, their movement with the swinging tassels on

the clothes would produce strong visual effects. Using the film to deliver the emotion of memory is like using the film

record ing the past — the good old days.

In the advertisements and magazines, patterns are compressed into a flat form to be presented. The structure and line

of clothes couldn’t be transferred by graphs. For me, clothes, like films, should be a presence to give the implication of

memory. The memory which the clothes contain include times, creativity and influence. Good creative clothes should

not only be good looking, but also need to contain images and long-lasting emotional memories.

In Films 2010 | Sweater Design Award / Quality Award


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In Films | 2010 | Fashion Show in Taipei Fashion Week

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OTHERS

137

NIKE O’logy Magazine Commercial Project2012 | O'logy Boozine 09

Praxes Design Journal2014 | Praxes Design Journal No.8

Ultra BioInternational Design Conference2014 | Ultra Bio International Design Conference in Shin-Chien University

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. . g ive me s ome yar n , and

I can g ive you a wonder land.

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