M.A. in Industrial Design Faculty of Architecture, School of Design Zagreb

Hana Ciliga

challenge the material into a playful object&nbsp;

Donut & Peanut

Hikoko Ito

「乐」installation 、「余」table、「幸」paper divider

Mirei Monticelli is a Milan-based Filipina designer. Working from her roots has exposed her to the world of traditional manufacturing and production of furniture, where everything is made by hand. This environment exposed her to the beautiful world of artisan crafts, but then gave her the yearning to explore state-of-the-art techniques that come from the western world – which led her to study at Politecnico di Milano with a Masters degree in Design and Engineering in 2017. In 2019, she founded Studiomirei. On the same year, her Nebula lamp was awarded during Milan Design Week’s Salone Satellite at Rho Fiera Milano.

Mirei Monticelli

Glow This is a table lamp made out of two parts. The main component is a sculptural copper piece that reflects the glow of the light that emanates from a bamboo base.Fragments This lamp evokes memories of fragments of dragon wings collected after it has passed its lifetime. It is made by metal wire woven together and baked in different colors of enamel to vitrify and preserve the memory of the fragment.

Glow & Fragments

Used to work in Shanghai Institute of Arts and Crafts, taught in Donghua University and Yunan University.Started his own series art works in 2004, with the theme of “Heart Sutra”. His work includes “Heart Sutra of Grapes”, “Heart Sutra of Silkworm”, “Heart Sutra of Sheep’s Drooping”.Founded Shuanglang Farmers’ Painting Club in 2011, where he teaches the locals how to paint. He also holds exhibitions for the club in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu......

Shen Jianhua

Tongtian Buddha made of metal wire weaving mesh structure, with fine thread and big holes. The material and technique match well to each other, helps to express the transparent and insightful of Buddha.

Metal Wire Weaving Buddha

DEO Design Lead. 20 years working in the intersection of brand, art, architecture, urban design, interior design, and design strategy.&nbsp;

Maggie Peng

In the design of the picnic basket, we appropriate the form and the use of bamboo weaving to create a new everyday object that brings bowls and plates of food for family gatherings.

The picnic basket

Founded the accessories label ZO-EE in 2011, and created a diverse range of innovative, knot-inspired jewelry collections.

Zoe Siu

This capsule bamboo furniture collection includes one lamp, one coffee table and one chandelier. Lamp shade taking the same technique of connecting bamboo and paper pasting in traditional kite-making. The style combines knot form as designer usually use.

Rotation rattan coffee table & Tangled bamboo chandelier & Dancing bamboo lamp

Danish Architect and Designer (MAA, MDd). Design Awards winner “Designer of The Year” 2018. Founder of Design Studio Lars Vejen. He specialises in creative development, interdisciplinary collaborations, and design of high quality products.

Lars Vejen-Jensen

Stack The concept is to create an asymmetric designed plate—a merge of both flat and deep—and to make the stacked plates look “random/messy” as you would imagine a stack of dirty dishes in the kitchen.Center Copper is a long time used and valued material molded in various techniques and for basically unlimited type of products.Ring The concept is to make a basic lamp structure in a simple ring shape from bamboo and in this insert different shade materials to make the lamp with potential to change in both material, structure and size, depending on where to use and for which purpose.Blend This design explores how various colors interacts when combined in different structures. The author wish to see the effect and tactility of a textile products when combined of two layers in a two-way “random” structure. &nbsp;

Stack & Center & Ring & Blend

Teaching assistant in the Master Media Design department at HEAD-Geneva. Co-founder of Degital Alchemy design studio. She is passionate about creating a strong symbiosis between design, science, and technology. Inspired by fundamental and applied physics, she designs hybrid devices that reveal beauty and poetry where one does not expect it.

Laura Couto Rosado

Room Dividers – Folk Future These room dividers are at the crossroads of craftsmanship, folk culture and digital technologies. The motifs of the embroidery are inspired by the Chinese tradition of tiger cloth.Cosmic Lacquer Display The lacquers show landscapes of nebulas and of the Mars captured by telescopes and probes in orbit.

Room Dividers - Folk Future & Cosmic Lacquer Display

Winner of 2010 ELLE DECOR International Design Awards. Since 2009, she has been working independently and within different design collectives on various projects ranging from industrial, interior, event and sustainable design.

Nuša Jelenec

Bamboo weaving and porcelain tables Winner of 2010 ELLE DECOR International Design Awards. Since 2009, she has been working independently and within different design collectives on various projects ranging from industrial, interior, event and sustanable design.Metal weaving and glass vase It is an experiment of blowing glass into a metal mesh. The shapes were inspired by the Chinese traditional glass instrument “gaben”

Bamboo weaving and porcelain tables & Metal weaving and glass vase

Studied Leather Goods and Costume Design at School of Applied Arts. Since 2013, she has lunched women’s shoe line MAGDALENA KLAŠNJA and MAGDALENA K.

Magdalena Klašnja

This collection includes five kinds of shoes: Bamboo Heel, Magpie Shoes, Thousand Layer Slipper, Straw Shoes, and Thousand Layer Sandal (whose heel can be took apart). Designer tried to apply traditional crafts and materials, like embroidery, thousand-layer sole, and straw shoe knitting, into fashion footwear design.

Shoes

Artist from Spain. Her work takes fabric as main materials and the form of spiral.

Mercedes Vicente

The author is interested in spiral form, which is built from inside to outside. She wants to imitate the sort of growth in nature. According to the material’s qualities and properties, the bamboo skin can make the shape and the material has a clear and translucent features.

Hermit

Anaide Davoudlarian

Material：chrysophoron, 925 silver, pearl Size：950*460*450mm&nbsp;The original aspiration of the design is “Recycling bring out best of nature”. Wheat is one of the three major grain crops in the world. As we get ear from the wheat every year there were quite a lot of “useless” straw left in the nature. We use the recycled wheat straw as our raw material, fill them in the aligned mold and get desired shape with steel plate moulding, a straw chair comes into shape after these processing. What’s particularly interesting is the special treatment to the cross sections of the chair. For one side of the chair, the cross section was cut neatly and carefully polished, showing rootstock in the profile. For the other side of the chair, the growth texture was reserved to demonstrate great vitality of the wheat.&nbsp;As a young design firm in China, Roarc Renew would like to contribute the recycling of nature with interesting and pragmatic designs that not only environment friendly, but also have its unique logic and implications.

"Róng" means deconstructing the traditional craft and applying them in contemporary design. Based on material and craft research of weaving, knitting, crochet, embroidery and knotting in traditional Chinese handicrafts, 27 designers and artists from 10 different fields have created 24 pieces of work to appy traditional weaving crafts in contemporary design.

Shanghai

weaving

Vision 

Anna Sofia Pozzato

   TRACCE INTERIORI

Josefina Muñoz

Svenja Specht & Célia eSTEVES

     

Vered Zaykovsky

      

Sonja Schaub

The Bam and Boo lights are inspired by the material bamboo and the craft of traditional Chinese paper umbrella making.What I love most about the material bamboo is that it grows so fast, that we can practically never run out of it. Some kind of bamboo can grow a cm per hour. You can nearly watch the bamboo growing. With the shapes of the two lamps I´m visualizing this growth in my way by showing a movement. For me the real beauty of this material is in its fast growth, its strength, elegance and humbleness.Another inspiration was the traditional paper umbrella craft in Yuhang, which is threatened to die out as there is no bigger request anymore today for paper umbrellas. They mainly serve as souvenirs today.So another aim was to design something these craftsmen could build instead with the capacities and tools they have. So my lights are constructed in a similar way as the umbrellas, held together by a string and stabilized by bamboo paper.I really like the humbleness and simplicity of this construction.And again are the shapes of the two lights in this sense also a reinterpretation of the opening and closing of an umbrella, one of the aspects I love most about umbrellas in general for its playfulness.

The Bam and Boo lights

Tadeáš Podracky

I&nbsp;did&nbsp;several&nbsp;different&nbsp;vase&nbsp;shapes&nbsp;made&nbsp;out&nbsp;of&nbsp;one&nbsp;bamboo&nbsp; tree.&nbsp;I&nbsp;was&nbsp;focused&nbsp;on&nbsp;how&nbsp;to&nbsp;build&nbsp;vase&nbsp;shape&nbsp;the&nbsp;most&nbsp; natural&nbsp;way&nbsp;and&nbsp;express&nbsp;feeling&nbsp;what&nbsp;I&nbsp;have&nbsp;from&nbsp;bamboo&nbsp; forest.&nbsp;The&nbsp;inspiration&nbsp;came&nbsp;from&nbsp;bamboo&nbsp;flute,&nbsp;where&nbsp;I&nbsp;liked&nbsp; the&nbsp;treatment&nbsp;of&nbsp;surface&nbsp;which&nbsp;I&nbsp;tried&nbsp;to&nbsp;reuse&nbsp;on&nbsp;vases.

Bamboo vases

Jian Ming Huang

Destroy the sign and objecthood of traditional peper umberlla, redefine it as abstract surface to generate fluid and dynamic space.

PAPER UMBRELLA REINVENTION

Markéta Kratochvílová

This&nbsp;serie&nbsp;colect&nbsp;stories&nbsp;across&nbsp;the&nbsp;time&nbsp;and&nbsp; places&nbsp;where&nbsp;China&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;main&nbsp;topic.&nbsp;

Travelers diary

Jean-Philippe Bonzon is a Swiss designer. He actually lives and works between Switzerland and Shanghai. He studied in Switzerland, where he obtained his degree in Product and Industrial Design at “éc a l” the École Cantonal d'Art de Lausanne (University of Art and design in Lausanne) in 2007. One year later, he won the prestigious Swiss Design Award Prize. After some work experience in New York, he moved to Shanghai in 2009. His design range includes homeware, accessories, furniture, lighting, packaging and interior design.

Jean-Philippe Bonzon

Enamel Working with an enamel factory, I decide to focus my research on the weldings and more specifically on the handles. After some experiment, I decide to mix this industry with some art and craft work. I find the contrast between these know-how interesting, so I mix them in one simple object. The final products are trays made in enamel and the feet are made with natural elements, like bamboo and wood. I use the bamboo flute workshop to create some supports.Oil-paper Umbrella I always dream to have a giant paper lamp, so I went to the paper umbrella workshop with this idea in mind. This is the result, a foldable lamp of 2100mm wide and 880mm high.

Dreaming Factory in Hangzhou

Luigi Boselli & Jingyi Lu

This table decoration set is mainly made with enamel coating on iron base, got inspired by western/Chinese dinning habits, is designed for fusion kitchen, for satisfy people just like us, who lives without border.

her COFFEE his TEA & his RICE her PASTA

Annide Gregory Studio

Capsule is a modular lamp that combine different materials from factory and craftsmen we visited during the month at design library. Our wish was to try to create a simple object at an affordable price. The first day we arrived at design Library we realized that their neighbor was a bulb factory, so we decide then to create lamp. Then from a visit to another we add techniques and components in order to make as much tries as we can. The result of this month in Hangzhou is a serie of tries and experimentations made in order to find the right components to create a small scaled production of lamps that could eventually grows to a bigger scaled production in the future.

Capsule

Photography, graphic design &amp; installation &nbsp;

Mina Piscevic

Two is silk screen print on enamel plate (20 pieces series). The work is intended both as an applied art piece for everyday use or as a fine art object. It synthetizes my prior experience with silk screen printing with the experience from the visit and work in the Bolu Enamel factory.Enamel drawings &nbsp;are sketches for the “Scaled” installation. In the creation of these sketches I have experienced the entire work process on the Bolu Enamel factory and learned of the enamel coloring technique from the factory workers. The whole process has been filmed and represents an interesting document to the whole effort.Scaled is an installation playing with the notion of scale in an art work. The sketches made in the “Enaml drawings” are scaled to fit the waste space of the gallery hall and thus the specific ambient and experience of art work is created. One feels almost inside the artwork, almost a part of it. The process of assembling the pieces is filmed and represents not only a document on the making of the work but also an interesting prospective on the whole issue.&nbsp;Bamboo weaving fashion accessories it is a series of accessories including: Basket Bag, Ball Bag, Papier Tube and a Picnic Basket. All items are simple geometrical shapes made out of bamboo treads in traditional weaving and natural finish and simple red lace. This bring forward the simple elegance of the traditional domestic crafts.Bamboo Lamp is a very simple design inspired solely on the beauty of the material itself. The technical aspects of the design are also very simple and recall the elegant simplicity of the traditional household craft.

Two & Enamel drawings & Scaled & Bamboo weaving fashion accessories & Bamboo Lamp

Zhang Fei

The crutch The design of crutch, we adopt a back to nature attitude, use the most simple and minimalist forms to complete a lightweight, simple, elderly care crutches design.Fish Pen Trying to combine the smooth and nature line of fish with natural texture of wood, I hope bring user a free casual writing experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The crutch & Fish Pen

          

“One tea one Incense” is made of bamboo and copper , builting a high quality accessories of tea and&nbsp;incense for people in travel with elegant structure .

One Tea one Incense（For Travel）

Ceramic designer, independent ceramist&nbsp; In 2011, a graduated undergraduate of ceramic major from the China Academy of Fine Arts;&nbsp; In 2016, a graduated postgraduate of ceramic major from the China Academy of Fine Arts;&nbsp; In 2015, on-site creation at Pottery Forest in Shiga Prefecture, Japan;&nbsp; In 2016, on-site creation at Clayworks Pottery Center in Baltimore, US.

Zhang Yiyang 

Ding Zhigang master told us a story.In fact, lots of people bought the flute not for play at the early age. &nbsp;It is the same as the truth longquan sword and encyclopedias at home is for elegant.It is a very unique phenomenon about living Chinese home cultural.Based on this,I want to let bamboo flute become a decoration with function at home. This kind of bamboo lamp retained the appearance of the bamboo flute basically through simple support which likes a sculpture on display, In order to retain an breath of decorations,at the same time it is also convenient to extract and put at any time. In addition, all bamboo lamp can be end to end because of the master’s skilled craftsmanship ,and them can transform the combination of light through the component &nbsp;in the future.Material : Bitter bamboo，copper，sponge tents，led lamp panel，polymer battery

《Zhong Tai》 Variable LED Leuchtstabe

Liu Weixue Head designer in charge of the Yuhang paper umbrella, responsible for research and application of traditional culture in contemporary art.&nbsp;Tang Wei Designer, responsible for research and application of traditional culture in contemporary art.

Liu Weixue & Tang Wei

Oiled paper umbrella and old house inspired us to make a paper umbrella home .It is happy&nbsp; to transform the home of paper umbrella with family , friends&nbsp; and veteran artists&nbsp; .

Pape Umbrella Home

Sofie Holm Larsen

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Founded by PINWU Design Studio in 2015, Róng Design Library is the first library in China focusing on traditional handcrafts and materials and a non-profit organization.
The core mission is to preserve the knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts and related materials. Furthermore, it offers a platform to deconstruct crafts, analyze materials and creating contemporary designs.

róng design library

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融设计图书馆自2015年发起 「驻场设计师」 项目，旨在邀请来自不同国家（地区）和领域的设计师、艺术家，用传统工艺和材料连接不同的文化，共同创造当代艺术和设计作品，我们称之为“文化之间分子级的碰撞”。「驻厨计划」 是 「驻场设计师」 项目的分支，以融设计图书馆的概念厨房为空间载体，邀请食物设计师，结合图书馆的传统手工艺材料进行食物创作，食物与传统手工艺的碰撞，最后以一场食物发布和设计分享会来呈现创作成果。

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culinary residency

Designers from different countries and regions meet craftmen from different villages in China. Through Chinese traditional materials, we build connections among different cultures, and also between designers and craftmen from different fields.&nbsp;

design residency

Hana Ciliga

Hikoko Ito

Mirei Monticelli

Shen Jianhua

Maggie Peng

Zoe Siu

Lars Vejen-Jensen

Laura Couto Rosado

Nuša Jelenec

Magdalena Klašnja

Mercedes Vicente

Anaide Davoudlarian

Anaide Davoudlarian

Anna Sofia Pozzato

Josefina Muñoz

Svenja Specht & Célia eSTEVES

Vered Zaykovsky

Sonja Schaub

Tadeáš Podracky

Jian Ming Huang

Markéta Kratochvílová

Jean-Philippe Bonzon

Luigi Boselli & Jingyi Lu

Annide Gregory Studio

Mina Piscevic

Zhang Fei

Zhang Yiyang

Liu Weixue & Tang Wei

Sofie Holm Larsen