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 UB's Industrial
Design Students Do It Again!
Hyun Chul Kim, a
senior in Industrial Design, took the first place
prize of $10,000 for his camera design at
Samsung's national camera competition earlier
this month.  Finishing
in third place with a $5,000 prize was his fellow
UB student and award-winning designer Manuel
Saez.
"The design department at UB is fun and
progressive. I got a lot of attention and help
from the professors," said the 23-year-old
Kim, a native of South Korea.
Indeed, the design students have been on a roll,
taking seven out of eight awards at the New York
Auto show and taking first place and honorable
mention in the National Housewares Competition.
Kim's winning camera design, aimed at the youth
market, was a unique and fun camera with
interchangeable lenses. "I want to be a teen
forever," said the ever-smiling designer.
His camera, called E Z Clik, shoots 35mm film and
comes with a rotating, snap-on lens wheel which
adds 12 color filters and various borders to the
pictures.
Kim said he invested virtually every working
moment during the past two months on the project.
Profs. Roy Watson and Jim Lesko were advisors for
both students.
Saez's camera design was a compact single lens
35mm that is waterproof. Kim plans to go to
graduate school next year to study product design
but has not yet chosen a school. He is currently
an intern at Mark Steiner Designs in Stamford.
Saez is a part-time employee with Anderson Design
in Plainville.
In addition to the prize money and a $2,000 gift
to the school of Engineering and Design, Kim and
Saez receive a free one-week trip to South Korea
where they will visit the Samsung Camera
headquarters and meet and work with the Samsung
industrial design team.
Ten other schools competed in the contest,
including Parsons School of Design in New York
City, Brigham Young University in Utah and Purdue
University in Indiana.
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