Rene Chen Portfolio

A simple product, a simple function. When was the last time anyone questioned why do we use pillows and why they are what they are today? Are you happy with yours?

PRODUCT DESIGN MASTER DEGREE THESIS

Rethinking Task Seating

We are addicted to chairs!!! Our bodies are not designed to sit the way we do today. MOVEMENT brings back the natural way of resting with the element of fun.

Movement Task Chair

reNature Pillow

product : commercial

thesis

Designing for a Healthier Spine

Thesis Research

thesis : research

SPart

Fitness should be more accessible, more affordable, more sustainable.

BUSINESS / SERVICE DESIGN

Designing the Future of RIMOSA

This studio group project gave us the chance to work with a real client with a pressing schedule. Project management and communication skills are being tested.

SPart

business design : fitness

Museum of Science and Art

org identity : non-profit

PRODUCT DESIGN

ExSpiron

Meet the first generation non-invasive minute ventilation respiratory monitor - the ExSpiron 1xi by Respiratory Motion Inc.

Heatsource Textiles

One Earth Designs 2009-2010 Designer & Manufacturing Engineer

ExSpiron

product : medical

Heatsource Textiles

product : social entrepreneurship

REcollection

This upscale wine & food accessary collection is made from recycled wine bottles and scrap wood sourced in Providence, RI.

REcollection

product : material exploration

Glass

Glass material and glassworking process driven explorations

Glass works

product : material exploration

Object-centered Design

This is an experimentation of an experimental design method. "...[new design method] is not another way of doing design, it's a way of doing what designers don't do at all." - John Chris Jones

design method : experimental

Object-centered Design