JIMMY ZHONG


COMMERCIAL ACADEMIC





OSA MEDICAL FUTURE


A near-future, at-home medical service for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) patients with a focus on accessibility, convenience and comfort, and supported by designs of contactless diagnosis device and fabric-based CPAP mask.

Mini Thesis Project, at Rhode Island School of Design




PASSIVE CONNECTIONS



Smart experiences of remotely “sharing a wall” with who we love: family, close friends, lovers... By exchanging sensories between distant locations, we establish indirect interactions as new ways to stay connected.

Self-Directed Research Project




GREEN CAMPUS INITIATIVE

A student collective that brings together colleges and local communities for initiating an urgently-needed cultural shift on how we approach sustainable design, artmaking and practices in daily life.

Self-directed Community Engagement Project, at Rhode Island School of Design



THE BOWL LAMP

Project Description

Course Project, at Rhode Island School of Design




BREAKING INTO PUBLIC


Interactive costumes that extend the sensorial relations between the audience and dancers in the context of Breaking.

Course Project, at Rhode Island School of Design




AUTO DRIVE FUTURE

An interior space design of future fully autonomous vehicle for improving our commute experience and work-life balance.

Course Project, at Rhode Island School of Design




METAL COMPOSITION



Interactive metal 

Course Project, at Rhode Island School of Design







QTL QUOVA PERFORMANCE



As the lead designer, developed QTL’s roadmap project of 3 interior used, linear LED cove lighting products, including main housings to be installed as architectual details, and a rotatable internal light module to be intuitively installed and adjusted to desired performance.

Engineered product Family launched at QTL
Images referenced from company website: https://www.qtl.lighting/products/knife-edge/




QTL ACCESSORIES

Developed and launched accessories of glare control louvers, drop lenses, wall mount brackets, etc as additions to QTL’s existing product lines. 

Engineered products launched at QTL
Images referenced from company website: 
https://www.qtl.lighting/products/vers-nano-louver-11/




HEMP PARTITION



A commercial partition wall made only from hemp products - heat-compressed panels, textiles, and nonwovens - for simplifying the disassembly and compost process and a sustainable use of planet resources.

Freelance Project for Ecoforge (https://ecoforge.io/), a Startup in Boston with an eco-conscious mission to develop high-strength hemp panels as alternatives to architectural construction materials




SPACIAL DESIGN RENDERING


3D modeling and rendering work during my internship at QUASQ