After graduating from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2004, she continued her studies getting a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Communication Design at the College of Fine Arts in Toulouse, France. Between 2006 to 2007, she attended the University of Bauhaus (option art) within the Erasmus European exchange program.

Navigating between Eastern and Western cultural education and living environments, Qian Jing continually seeks visual languages that convey her individuality. She focuses particularly on unexpected, incidental, and humorous visual expressions rooted in daily life, alongside an endless exploration of color. While creating graphic designs for numerous brands and art institutions, Qian Jing began extending her graphic design practice to textile in 2017. That same year, she founded the MEW Handmade Rugs brand, now rebranded as SHAPE OF SHAPES.

SHAPE OF SHAPES is an integrated design service and product development studio. We try to convey “the richest emotions in the most minimal shapes”. The relentless creation of graphic combinations, divisions, transformations, and reconfigure, along with the continuous exploration and experimentation of the relationship between graphics and color, form the driving force behind all our creative endeavors.

Since 2018, SHAPE OF SHAPES has developed a series of handmade rugs, aiming to connect traditional craftsmanship, diverse material exploration, and environmental concerns through a contemporary visual language—using a more humorous, unexpected, and boundary-less experimental approach.

Material：Pure New Zealand Wool

Size（cm）：1700 x 2555 mm

Waterfalls, formed by water, mountains, air and the gravity, are supposed to be one of the most stunning natural sights on the planet. You can certainly look up at a waterfall for a long time, watching the water falling fast from the heights, crashing down to the foot of the mountain, splashing up countless drops of water, and this force of nature going round and round again…

“Falls No.1” originates from a photograph taken at Cangshan Mountain in Dali. The dramatic pile height variations, meticulously trimmed using hand-cut pile techniques, create a three-dimensional relief effect for the hand-drawn waterfall lines, visually separating them from the distant mountain backdrop. Crafted with an exceptionally high 9.5-ounce weight, the entire rug possesses a pronounced sculptural quality and delivers a remarkably resilient, springy feel underfoot. I hope to capture this extraordinary energy of nature and bring it into living spaces, allowing it to permeate the entire environment.