Echo Yuan is a product and industrial designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in taking something we already know and challenging our preconceived notions of the subject. Through observing, learning, and thinking, this process refreshes our  ways of perceiving the surroundings. While her work focuses heavily on tangible products, she also enjoys exploring and working with different mediums, and she is always excited to play with new tools.


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Echo Yuan is an interdisciplinary designer and artist based in New York City. She believes in the meaingfulness that different objects convey, and they are mediums that change our conventional thinking. While her work focuses heavily on tangible products, she also enjoys exploring with different mediums to communicate her thoughts.


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01 Off the Clock
May 2022
Wall sconce
Stainles steel, MDF











Time is mostly communicated through digital numbers on screens to us these days.
As important as the invention of digital clocks are, our mundane yet busy lives revolve around these numbers.


Off the Clock is an investigation of rethinking our relationship with time through lighting. This representation is the outcome of exploring abstract ways of time-telling for those who wants to turn off their digital devices while unwinding, allowing the light to immerse while it also acts as a vague indicator of time.







Ideations with time-telling
















After exploring different mediums through ideation phase, I decided to use lighting as the medium to represent time. Not only it is closely connected with my project from the past, lighting itself also creates an immersive experience that allows us to sense the passing of time within the space.






























Ideating with lighting affect













Prototyping
© 2022 Echo Yuan