Minwook Paeng

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Texture Palette is a texture simulating solution for creating the physical experience of VR content. Hardware and software innovations of Texture Palette provide tactile interaction beyond the screen. We can feel the texture of digital objects in VR content, such as roughness, hardness, temperature and pattern. This is the next paradigm shift in VR interaction and allows us to interact with immersive and realistic VR experiences.

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Challenge the standard

Minwook Paeng is a transdisciplinary industrial designer based in the highly inspirational city of London, UK and also in Seoul, South Korea. Before his master’s degree, he worked with Samsung, LG, and Hyundai to develop his capabilities by working as a designer. He is interested in the convergence of design and emerging technologies and aims to change the world based on future innovative solutions.

During the IDE course, his projects have been featured on various platforms including Reuters, Dezeen, WIRED, Fastcompany, Dazed and made headlines around the world. In the London Design Festival exhibition set by OPPO X RCA, his project was the final winner of the year. Also, recently, he was selected as a scholar by the Pokémon Company International.


Accomplishment

Mayor's Entrepreneur Semi-Finalist, 2022

Venture Catalyst Challenge(VCC) Finalist, 2022

Winner, 'Design the new extraordinary' by OPPO, 2021

19th London Design Festival, 2021

15th Seoul Design Festival, 2016

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Minwook's other projects

Shellter — “Pollution to Solution." Shellter is a project to create biomaterials using discarded oyster shells and make them into artificial shells for hermit crabs.
Third Eye: Evolution to the Phono Sapiense — "Phono Sapiens is a new human species born from smartphones." Third Eye is a speculative design project to deliver a social message about smartphone addiction.

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