Weiky Chin

NeoForm bridges the critical gap between a designer’s desk and the workshop. It addresses a common frustration that design students, designers and creative practitioners face: the loss of creative momentum when their formal workspaces are inaccessible.

It sits just an arm’s reach away on the user’s desk, providing an organised system for rapid, low-fidelity modelling at home. Using magnetically-connected components, users can quickly assemble 2D & 3D forms to test their feasibility, turning downtime into productive iteration. The magnetic elements encourage bolder, hands-on exploration of forms by making the process intuitive and cost of failure low.

Just an arm's reach away

NeoForm sits conveniently on your desk. Grab pieces off the metal band and use them alongside magnets to build different shapes. Once done, just pop them back onto the band for organised, easy storage.

Easy set-up, easy stow-away

NeoForm is compartmentalised in a way that allows you to set them up quickly when you need them. Putting them away also doesn’t take much time at all!

Inspiring imagination and exploration

Use the pieces to build different 2D and 3D forms. Let your imagination run wild! Observe how different shapes interact with light and shadows.

Extra storage, extra materials

The storage compartments could be used to keep CMF samples. You could hold them up to a flashlight and observe how your design looks under different lighting conditions and different coloured lights.

Sketches that lift off the page

Use the pieces and magnetic tape to build quick, low-fi organic forms to visualise spatial depth and ratios! The above is a physical sketch on a rock-shaped animal shelter for a park.

NeoForm: Inspiring imagination, reforming ideation

NeoForm is a tool to help designers and creative practitioners bridge their creative flow. Its features a modular design and allows users to customise it to fit their preferences. It encourages seamless transition through different mediums and empowers interdisciplinary collaboration.

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