YDMD Studio is a creative studio with locations in both Shanghai and London, founded by Chong Shi, Min Zhong, Meng Yang, and Ming Zhao in 2019. In 2021, Ke Bao and Yanan He joined the team as a new co-founder. Cultivating an ongoing exploration of materiality, technique, function and meaning, we investigate these notions through university education, curation and contemporary craft. Our practice focuses on experimental problem-solving intertwined with shaping new challenges. Our creative practice - always in dialogue with objects, is built on the admiration of all the whimsy and thoughtfulness that goes into creating them.