February 28, 2020 |
Hankook’s Model Solution Opens ‘CMF LAB’ to Demonstrate Industrial Design Trends
- Lab introduces latest trends in Colour, Materials, and Finish (CMF) with Model Solution’s own insight and interpretation
- Launches 'CMF Package Box' in collaboration with the global design studio 'Chris Lefteri Design'
Hankook Technology Group's state-of-the-art prototype and production solution company Model Solution (CEO Woo Byungil) announced that it has opened its ‘CMF LAB,’ which introduces the latest industrial design trends and demonstrates the applications of various materials in different products.
The CMF LAB, located at the headquarters of Model Solution, is a space that introduces trends in society and industry across three key elements of design: colour, material and finish. The lab has been built to provide inspiration for product development with Model Solution’s unique and leading insights and interpretation.
The CMF LAB consists of six different sections, including ‘Mega Trend,’ ‘Model Solution Insight,’ ‘General CMF and Unique CMF,’ ‘Colour District,’ and ‘Discovery’. Each section displays a variety of design elements related to CMF, from the latest design trends, Pantone colour trends, insights and ideas from Model Solutions, to leading projects. Model Solution plans to utilise the CMF LAB as a strategic stepping stone for new business expansion.
In addition to the opening of CMF LAB, the company will work with world-renowned British design studio, ‘Chris Lefteri Design’ to produce a ‘CMF Package Box’, featuring colours, materials and finishes based on the latest trends.
The CMF Package Box will showcase the two companies' expertise across a wide range of design processes, ranging from predicting future design trends, to choosing colours, materials and finishes, to making packages, and will be used to present insights and inspiration for future trends to designers and companies.
Chris Lefteri Design is a material expert design studio, run by the renowned material designer Chris Lefteri, supporting designers who are considering colours, materials and finishes at the centre of the design process and are using materials creatively. The studio provides material consulting services to the world's leading multinational companies in various fields, including the automobile, electronics and sports industries.
Hankook Technology Group acquired Model Solution in May 2018 to expand the group's business model and is looking to it to strengthen its competitiveness as an innovative company, and thus secure the group's inorganic growth and future growth engines. The opening of the CMF Lab is part of Model Solution’s expansion in both product development and mass production, as it grows into a total solutions company, through its cutting-edge technology and one-stop solution platform, to play a key role in securing future growth engines.
Source: Hankoook
