YDMD is a design studio offering unique evocative products. From the departure point explore material, technique, function and meaning into university education, exhibition curating, experiment exploration, contemporary craft. As a designer team both based in Beijing and London, we play the role as a bridge between two different cultures. it provides the chance to understand both commonalities and differences in culture and techniques.
Interdisciplinary backgrounds endow YDMD with creative and surprising approaches to making. We solve problems in the meantime of making new ones. We are interested in both highly experimental artistic explorations while. But we also enjoy turning museum exhibits into private evocative objects that belong to the consumer, trying to help the owner express unspeakable feelings and intangible thoughts, we help you show a 'joking' attitude towards the world.
No matter in Eastern or Western cultures, it has turned the role of contemporary craft from presenting the beauty of materials and craftsmanship into intellectual productions. However, they always encounter prejudices from the arena of fine arts when in the spotlight. YDMD does not aim to give contemporary crafts a clear identity in visual cultures but presents audiences with a series of extraordinary domestic objects strolling between art and ordinary daily life.
2019 Best Silver Design, Theo Fennell x RCA
2015 shortlist, Graduate Craft Awards, The Inches Carr Trust
2014 shortlist, International Talent Support, collaborated with Alexander Benekritis
2013 Silver Award, the Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Award
2012 Commendation Award, the Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Award
Selected Teaching Activities
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Cass School of Art London, London, UK
Edinburgh University College of Art, Edinburgh, UK London
Goldsmiths' Centre, London, UK
British Embassy Cultural Services Annual Conference, Beijing, Shanghai
Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan
Awards & Recognitions
Clients
Gemdale Group
Style Magazine
Dazed China Magazine
FORHIM Magazine
An+ Art and Design Center
Beijing Design Week
AS USUAL
Wills Lane Gallery (UK)
Royal College of Art (UK)
Boloni Home (Beijing)
Shanghai Linjie Textile Co. (Shanghai)
Gemdale Group (Beijing)
Commissions from
Meet the Team
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Monet Goode
Min Zhong
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Chong Shi
Co-founder & Artistic Director
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Ke Bao
Co-founder & Operations Director