Presentation My Works and Observation Timo Salli Product Design Prof. University of Art and Design Helsinki Welcome to the symposium "Designing the Quietness." My name is Timo Salli. I have been active as a designer in Helsinki and also teaching at University of Art and Design Helsinki as a professor. Now I would like to explain about my thoughts, current and perspective design works through introducing my works in screen projection. This is one of my works titled as "Jack in the Box." These days our houses are filled with so many electronic gadgets and even we donﾕt notice it. Our houses almost have become an ﾒEntertainment Electronic Center, and the gadgets are mostly centered by the television set. I made the television set as if it is a "Jack in the Box." Not only the shape of the set, while the set is not in use, the monitor is retracted into the box. Literally it is gone out of sight. We often unconsciously turn on the set by manipulating the remote control device. "Jack in the Box" makes us realize what we are going to do by interrupting our behavior before we can turn it on. This particular work is my confident one. The flat piece can transfer a 2 dimensional impression into 3 dimensional one through optical effects. A light comes to gain a new meaning. This is an inexpensive lighting fixture. This is just covered only by a plastic part, however, the part has many layers including mirroring surface that reflects a light toward odd directions. This is titled as "Power Ranger," and intended for a material test. Though this is a kind of a rocking chair made out of metal. Contrary to the popular notion that metal is heavy and hard, lightness can be experienced through this product. This is a folding chair but very heavy and sturdy. The work provokes our conventional views as this is really a chair to sit on or only a piece of something to be folded. The same thought was applied on this work titled as "Tranp-easy Chair" shorten for a transparent chair. A metal frame is wrapped with nylon mesh by utilizing a zipper. Therefore, only by wrapping the frame by the nylon part, the frame turns into a chair in a second. What I tried to provoke in the work was the quality of design. What is interesting and what is not, what should be left and what should be not. This is a light and small chair for studio use with a bit peculiar intention, and looks like made out of glass. This has been worked on for rather long period. The issue I have tried to present here is that if we can replace a traditional fireplace with something else. In Finland, where the use of an open fire long gone, but almost every person has a memory of gazing at the open fire in the fireplace sometime ago. Instead of an open fire, this work uses gas. Now the object here is titled as "Lamp, Lamp, Mirror, Lamp that is a combination of a mirror and a lamp." Two meanings are bundled in one object, that is. One of them can be used as a reflector of the sunlight and the other can emit a light. This also has social means of being looked at and looks at people whom using the product. The object also works for a vanity mirror for its carved and slant installation. The bag you are seeing here is for a business travel designed for the association of Finnish leather industries. You can pull the bag at your flank. Nobody can talk about Finland without a sauna. This is a tool for a sauna. A sauna bucket has a traditional formative style without using any metal. The bucket comes with a scoop to pour water for raising steam and both the scoop and bucket can be held all together with a single hand. I have experimented the tool for the last one year and found no problem at all. This exhibition design was done for our design museum. By installing reflective materials for utilizing the white night light. Thus we tried to make the venue looking wider for visitorsﾕ direct feeling. This is an exterior view and at night it looks like this. This was a full moon shot just last night for this particular exhibition. The other thing shown here is an artificial and squarish moon, mimicking visionary image of the moon, to be compared with the real moon. Just like a light at night, so to speak. This is the picture I have taken in urban area in Japan this time. Since I have been interested in things to be seated on, and I have shot several shots of chairs. I got started to work on this for an exhibition in Finland. Made out of wood. I painted it in Black. You are now seeing the detail of the object. The detail has a very strong hinge to mean "Silence is gold." The followings are just what I observed. There is rather no message here. I shot them in many islands of Finland. Beyond these islands, we reach the Red Sea. I just tried to observe what one's behavior influences one's sensibility. 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