Kim Yeo-Rin, from the department of industrial design at KIU, made a contract with ‘Ucanfunding’, which is a funding company which has the number 1 access rate in Korea. As a crowd funding company or social funding company, ‘Ucanfunding’ opens writer’s own creative projects on the Internet and gets investment from numerous people.
The design that Kim Yeo-Rin made was a ring which has a word ballon plate with a size of 5*0.8cm so we can carve a message to ourselves or to the person one would give it to.
“Even though we wear a ring without special meaning, people would understand it differently, so I designed this ring and also when we give a ring as a present, I designed for it to go with the message which is matching with that person.” She said, and “It is still very unfamiliar to get funding like this, but I think this will be a great experience whatever the outcome.”
Kim Dae-Sung who bridged this project said, “This would be a new teaching method which uses SNS quite freely, while we don't follow the traditional dependent design education system.”
After Kim, Yeo-Rin’s funding, a tissue case bringing up the image of a ship which was made by Kim Eun-Soo, from the department of industrial design is waiting for the next stage of funding as well, so students will have many chances to experience designing, producing, and investing together. |