Akane Yasuda 🎓

How would you define making it big?

Transcending the medium from its conventional boundaries.

What's a big move that has shaped you?

Graduating CalArts.

What's your next big move?

Going through a huge design mental breakdown again and recovering from it.

BFA4

Dream job?

Cafe/bar owner.

Who is your favorite GD faculty member?

Mr. Keedy

Name an important lesson you've learned so far in your academic career.

There are always alternatives. Make more, choose after.

Three words that describe your current work?

Sensory, sympathetic, smooth.

How have current (big) circumstances affected your perspective on design?

It has widened my visual language, and process methods.

What are 3 must-haves/must-dos that put you in a working mood?

Music, lights, comfy chair.

miir

Miir is a nomadic experience and interface that projects your personalized perennial plant based on your water balance in your body and mood through the help of advanced technology of an hydro tracker. It is nothing more or nothing less than a reflection of yourself. You can not customize the way your plant looks; its form and transformation are purely the reflection of your water balance and mood, as well as general physical information like age, weight, location, and gender. Miir is a virtual oasis for your plant that grows old with you that will assist mental and physical well being without imposing or forcing the user what the correct way of living is.

Technical Collaborator: David Yoo

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