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Jiani Zeng (zh:曾佳旎) is a Chinese designer, engineer, inventor, researcher, and businesswoman. She is known for being the co-founder of the San Francisco-based technology company Butlr Technologies.[1][2]She is also known for inventing the 3D printing technology known as Illusory Material, which was named one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2021.[3][4][5][6]
As a researcher, she has worked on projects for the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[7][8] She has published research on topics such as multi-material 3D printing and thermal data applications.[9]
Early life and education
[edit]Zeng grew up in Hangzhou, China.[10] Zeng graduated from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) with a bachelor’s degree in Product Design and Manufacture.[11] She also received a master’s degree from MIT.[7] For her master’s thesis, she wrote on voxel-based multi-material printing as a way to design objects.[12]
Career
[edit]After graduating from college, Zeng worked briefly as a product development engineer.[7]After studying at MIT, Zeng founded Butlr with Hongdao Deng as a startup in 2019.[1]The company was a spinoff of MIT Media Lab. It develops products such as body heat sensors and occupancy data that gives buildings the ability to detect human presence and activity.[1]
In 2020, Zeng and Deng unveiled Illusory Material, a 3D printing technology that combines lenticular lenses with colors or patterns to create a variety of 3D lenticular designs.[5][6][13] This is done through 3D voxel printing and volumetric design, which can include shifting patterns, written content, and touch-sensitive visual effects.[14][15] Zeng and Deng created several test items using the technology, including a perfume bottle (Nseen), a lollipop mold proptype (Loopop), and a sculptural lamp (Unream).[5][15]Illusory Material went on to be named one of 2021’s best inventions by Time and won the “Experimental” category at Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Awards.[3][4]
Zeng was also interviewed as part of the festivities at the Design Shanghai event in 2020.[16]
Zeng was featured on the cover of the Summer 2023 issue of Innovation Magazine and also served as a guest contributor for the issue.[17] Alongside Deng, she published an article about the aging population crisis for the World Economic Forum in 2023.[18]
Zeng has also been featured in publications such as Financial Times,[15]Dezeen,[19] and Marie Claire Hungary.[20]
Awards
[edit]- 2015 - Red Dot Best of the Best award for her entry “Optical Textiles” in the 3D Printed category[10][21][22]
- 2020 - IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) Award[23]
- 2020 - Core77 Design Award[24]
- 2020 - Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Awards[4]
- 2020 - Platinum A’ Design Awards[25]
- 2021 - “Next Generation 2021” designer by Wallpaper Magazine
- 2021 - Illusory Material named one of 2021’s best inventions by Time Magazine[3]
- 2022 - Forbes 30 Under 30 (North America) List for 2022[14][26]
Selected publications
[edit]- Zeng, J., Deng, H., Zhu, Y., Wessely, M., Kilian, A., & Mueller, S. (2021, October). Lenticular objects: 3D printed objects with lenticular lens surfaces that can change their appearance depending on the viewpoint. In The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 1184-1196)
- Zhang, X., Shtarbanov, A., Zeng, J., Chen, V. K., Bove, V. M., Maes, P., & Rekimoto, J. (2019, May). Bubble: Wearable assistive grasping augmentation based on soft inflatables. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6).
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Whittaker, Zack (2020-07-23). "This startup reworked its privacy-friendly sensors to help battle COVID-19". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ "These sensors know when your office is underutilized—and when your grandma takes a fall". fastcompany.com. December 8, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Illusory Material: The 100 Best Inventions of 2021". Time. 2021-11-10. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ a b c "This incredible 3D printing technique generates impossible objects". fastcompany.com. September 30, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng Unveil 'Illusory Material'". www.dexigner.com. 2020-08-24. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ a b "A 3D printing framework to design illusory objects". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ a b c "Team creates 3D objects that change their appearance from different viewpoints". techxplore.com. February 1, 2022.
- ^ Competition, A' Design Award and (2020-03-31). "Unream Voxel Printed Lamp by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng". A' Design Award and Competition. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ "Jiani Zeng". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ a b "The Chinese design student accepted by seven top US universities". South China Morning Post. 2017-06-15. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ "Jiani Zeng - MIT IDM - Integrated Design & Management". 2024-03-03. Archived from the original on 2024-03-03. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ Zeng, Jiani (2020). Expand material presence to material experience with volumetric thinking : voxel based multi-material printing in designing objects (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/129844.
- ^ Boissonneault, Tess (2020-08-14). "Illusory Material: reimagining product design with multi-material 3D printing". VoxelMatters - The heart of additive manufacturing. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ a b "Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng: Wallpaper* Next Generation 2021". wallpaper.com. 2020-12-29. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ a b c Wustemann, Louis (2020-10-02). "Bowls, vases and lamps: how 3D printing came home". Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ "Aesthetica Magazine - Setting a Precedent: Design Shanghai". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ "Summer 2023 - Design Entrepreneurship". idsa.org.
- ^ "Can we solve the world's ageing population crisis by 2035?". weforum.org. June 19, 2023.
- ^ "Nseen is a see-through perfume bottle covered in invisible writing". Dezeen. 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ "Radikális minimalista parfümüveget terveztek | Marie Claire" (in Hungarian). 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ "Red Dot Design Award: Optical Textiles". www.red-dot.org. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "Red Dot Design Award: Loopop". www.red-dot.org. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "Illusory Material: transform material experience in everyday products". idsa.org. 2020.
- ^ "Illusory Material: Expand Material Presence to Experience - by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng / Core77 Design Awards". Core77. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "Unream Voxel Printed Lamp by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng - BEST DESIGN AMERICA". bestdesignamerica.com. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ Schiel, Jamie. "Congratulations to the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 2024-12-08.