3-WAY FAN

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3-Way Fan

mark&draw
Manufactured Product

2018

Designer

MARK CHOI (TAEK-JIN CHOI)

One of the essential appliances, the fan, is a product with a long history.
Even in an air-conditioned house, there are still several fans together
Various sizes and uses are subdivided, and various new products are poured out of the market every year.

Mark & Draw's 3-Way Fan is five years old. This product is a handy fan.
It's a product that you carry out when you go out. These products have no choice but to be designed with many restrictions when developing them.

It should be light, small, and long-lasting. It should also, of course, reflect consumers' tastes in design trends. That's why new designs of handy fans are always released every year.

Mark & Draw's 3-Way Fan tried to reflect some comparable usability from the early stages of design along with these concerns.
First, we observed the inconvenience of user usability in various environments and tried to solve this problem in terms of form and organization.

Use a handy fan when you go out. However, when using public transportation, people who cannot sit in their seats should grab their belongings, bus or subway handles. Or I manipulate my cell phone or read books. Then you can use a 3-way Fan around your neck.
You can use both hands freely.

Also, when seated in a chair and the table is in front of you, the 3-Way Fan can be stably placed on the table without a separate stand. This is because the fan was mechanically modified for the table and designed to switch to a stable form.

Since then, many subsequent brand products of manufacturers have developed similar mechanical characteristics to make products.

In addition, the fan head part (propeller) can be adjusted to the angle you want to use. This is a usability rarely seen with a handy fan.

These users' inconveniences were observed, solutions were found, and reflected in the design.
The design is a minimal element and is intended not to react sensitively to trends over time.
Mark&draw's 3-Way Fan has been a bestseller for five years and has been supplied to other brands through collaboration with several companies.

While carrying a fan, you are in an uncomfortable situation where you can't use one hand. It is designed to connect a strap to the neck to allow users to experience the coolness more comfortably outside on hot summer days of summer.

If you sit in a chair and place the table in front of you, you can stably place the 3-way pan on the table without a separate stand. This is because it is designed to convert the fan into a stable form by mechanically modifying it for tables.