2025 OwnKind Design Studio / Industrial Design 

• Role: Co-founder, Principal Designer / Project Duration: 3 weeks

• Product Definition. Art Direction: Sasha Tseng

• ID & CMF Design: Sasha Tseng, Chiawei Lin

• Rendering & Animation: Chiawei Lin

Screens are everywhere — and getting families outside, truly curious and present, is harder than ever. EXPLO started with a personal moment: a late-night beach walk with my son, flashlight in one hand, questions in the other. That experience became the brief — a single tool that could light the dark and reveal the invisible, without feeling like another screen.

The challenge was to make something that worked for small hands and big curiosity — appealing to parents, carrying two functions in one form: campsite light and 30x magnifier. Drawing from nature, we landed on a smooth pebble-like silhouette with a self-standing base, finished in matte soft-touch ABS across a palette of forest green, sandy dune, and dusk navy. Nothing about it says "equipment." Everything about it says go outside.

EXPLO is currently at concept stage — but the idea at its heart is clear. Sometimes the most meaningful design doesn't come from market research. Sometimes it starts with a walk on the beach with your kid.