Industrial Design

Athabasca

Recalling the glaciers of Northern Canada, Athabasca is a piece meant to remind one of nature’s beauty, and signify the importance of its preservation. Modular and multifunctional, the fins emulate the melting process so quickly degrading these... More

Industrial Design

Komorebi

Komorebi is a Japanese-inspired low coffee/tea table that looks to inspire a more meaningful, interactive relationship between user and object. The "second skin", an angular facade of aluminum, encourages the owner of the piece to be creative in... More

Sculpture

Material Decay: The Impermanence of Man

Material Decay: The Impermanence of Man is a sculptural work exploring the impact of human intervention on nature, as well as nature's resilience, through materiality and form. Humanity's efforts to build and establish physical legacies can be... More

Industrial Design

RemX - A Speculative System for Sustainable Futures

RemX is a speculative systems design project looking to re-imagine the extraction of technology-critical elements (TCEs). These vital minerals are necessary materials for products involved in "green tech", renewable energy, and other electronic... More

Digital Media

RemX Map Demo - Araxa Niobium Mine

Interactive demo map of a RemX mine conversion. Taking Araxa mine, the world's leading produce of niobium (80% of global output) and imagining its complete conversion from conventional open pit mine to phytomine operation.

Video

RemX Promo Video - "Extracting a Better Future"

RemX is a speculative systems design looking to re-imagine the extraction of technology-critical elements (TCEs). These vital minerals are necessary materials for products involved in "green tech", renewable energy, and other electronic... More

Installation

Trading Floor 1.0

A flexible, evolving, guilt-free space for young artists and creatives, Trading Floor 1.0 is the prototype for contemporary urban gathering and creative knowledge exchange. As part of my internship at SHEEEP, we worked with New Currency to... More

Work by

Daniel Cui aka. Dan Cui

Industrial Design

“ANTIDISCIPLINARY, adjectiveGoing against the accepted wisdom of a discipline. Not fitting within a traditional discipline or outside the boundaries of traditional disciplines.”