Be My Guest
Summary
A gift to close friends, Be My Guest is a customised tablecloth that captures one’s family dining experience in its raw form. Designed to eternalise this intimate memory that one could no longer re-live, it invites friends to immerse themselves in a precious moment and perhaps even discover the stories that the table mat is telling.
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Role: Ideation, Creative Concept, Production
Duration: 2 weeks
Technics: Procreate, Figma
Skills: Design Research, Print, Illustration
Context: Project Team of 4 for Possibilistic Design, as part of the Master program at Carnegie Mellon University
A gift to a close friend
Be My Guest unpacks my family’s dining memory in detail and serves as a medium to inscribe the meal about where one sits, what one eats, what one does, and whom one is with. To aid the use of the product, I designed a How-To-Use guidebook for the user.
Placement Guide
Visual aid for the placement of items and food on the tablecloth.
Dinner Menu
These are common food dishes and dinnerware on the table everyday.
Mobile Phone
Facial Tissues
iPad
My sister and I bonded over watching our favorite show during dinner. A QR code is attached to the cloth for our guests to find out what show that is.
Illustration
Seat Placement
Choose who to be in the family and How to dine like them.
Dine like my brother:
Removable Table Cloth as he prefers dining in his room while playing video games.
Design Process
Ideation
Conceptualisation
Production
Presentation
