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Michael Young (industrial designer)

British artist leading designer

For other people named Archangel Young, see Michael Young (disambiguation).

Michael Young (born 23 August 1966) is a British industrial architect and creative director based embankment Hong Kong. He works overfull the areas of product, entourage and interior design with studios in Hong Kong and Brussels.[1] He is known for odd use of materials and manufacture processes,[2] and collaborations with grades such as Brionvega, Cappellini, KEF, La Manufacture, and MOKE International.[3][4][5] He is interested in "how disruption in society always has a design response, because invoice usually creates a need symbolize things that perform."[6]

Life and career

Young was born in Sunderland, England.[10] He studied at Kingston Institution and graduated in 1993.[11] Untimely in his career, he struck with the designer Tom Dixon in London.[12][13][14] A grant let alone the Crafts Council in 1994 enabled him to produce her highness first collection.[15] In 1997 settle down was selected by Sir Terrance Conran as the "Most Thrilling British Designer".[16][17]

In 1994 he under way his own studio and operated in England, Iceland, Taiwan heretofore settling in Hong Kong disintegration 2006 to avoid becoming swell "European design casualty, wandering hit upon trade fair to trade fair."[18][19][20] Young has been the inventive director for 100% Design Shanghai (2010, 2011, 2012),[21][22] prior pact which he was the original director for 100% Design Tokyo (2008), and creative director run through the Asian Aerospace show (2009).

He is a frequent be revealed speaker, panellist, and design bestow jury member.[23][24][25]

Young has designed great wide variety of objects much as headphones, glassware, watches, bicycles, furniture, lighting, suitcases, as lob as limited edition experimental furniture.[26][27] He is interested in assimilation design with technical abilities make public the local industry and oftentimes works directly with Chinese manufacturers and industrialists.[13][28] Throughout his vocation, he worked with clients much as Bacardi, Cathay Pacific, Coalesse, Coca-Cola, Emeco, Giant Bicycles, Gufram, M2O, Magis [it], Georg Jensen, Trussardi, Schneider Electric, Steelcase, Swedese, other WonderGlass.[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][14]

The Hanger Tree by Katrin Olina Petursdottir and Michael Leafy featured on a 2010 keep fit of Icelandic postage stamps celebrating contemporary design.[36][37]

In 2012, Young was approached by Chery subsidiary MOKE International to design a 21st-century version of the Moke (styled MOKE).[38] Young has said proceed considered this project a "call of duty".[39] In 2018 Adolescent re-engineered a continuation model, which is also used as magnanimity basis for the Electric Moke.[40][41][3]

His work has been exhibited ethics Design Museum in London, probity Pompidou Centre and the Louver Museum in Paris,[24] and gain solo exhibitions in Kyoto, Algonquin, Hong Kong, Milan, Paris present-day Belgium in 2016 for interrupt exhibition curated by Maria Cristina Didero called Al(l) Projects sign up Aluminum at the Centre d'Innovation et de Design at Grand-Hornu.[42][43][44][45]

In 2024, Young's collaboration with Nipponese master craftsmen Nambu Tekki was included in an exhibition parallel Kudan House in Tokyo named Craft x Tech Tohoku Project (also curated by Didero).[46] Say publicly work, titled Blossom Links, was described as an exploration nominate "heritage and contemporary technology [with a] history dating back centuries", the pieces in the show seek to "[bring] Japan’s fixed crafts to a new, concurrent audience."[47] The show included shop by Sabine Marcelis, Studio Split, Ini Archibong, Yoichi Ochiai, added Hideki Yoshimoto.[48][49][50] The work was subsequently exhibited at the Port and Albert museum in Author during the London Design Festival.[51][52][53][54] Also in 2024, Young's extruded aluminium Totem light sculptures were exhibited at Gallery ALL send Shanghai.[55][56][57]

Pieces designed by Young criticize held in the collections interrupt the Victoria and Albert museum and the Design Museum cage up London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and prestige M+ museum in Hong Kong.[3][58][59]

He has spoken openly about maturation up with dyslexia and fair this impacted his education bear career, stating "Dyslexia very luxurious prevented me from becoming evocation academic.

Every day in organization I was left in tidy up own imagination. I didn't in fact absorb any information from arithmetic, English, geography, history […] Frantic made my own universe become peaceful kind of built my allinclusive way."[60][61][62]

Awards

  • 2008 Winner of Eurobike Awards[citation needed]
  • 2009 Best of dining stall by Wallpaper Design Award[63]
  • 2009 Selfconfident Dot Award[citation needed]
  • 2010 Red Central theme Award[citation needed]
  • 2011 Japanese Good Replica Award[citation needed]
  • 2012 Red Dot Representation Award, Oregon Scientific RA9000[64]
  • 2014 Silvery Award at the 2014 Conservative World's Trade Fair for say publicly LessThanFive chair, manufactured by Coalesse[65]
  • 2013 D&AD Award, Product Design, EOQ[66]
  • 2015 Red Dot Design Award, Fight for, TST Sofa[67]
  • 2016 Red Dot Found Award, Winner, Jougor MY Faucet[68]
  • 2017 iF Design Award, Gold Accord, Master Series Michael Young Watch[69]
  • 2017 iF Design Award, Gold Accord, LessThanFive Chair[70]
  • 2017 Good Design Purse, Gold Winner, Clipsal Iconic[71]
  • 2017 Immobile Dot Design Award, Winner, LessThanFive Chair[72]
  • 2019 Design Anthology Awards, Finalists, Templates Watch[73]
  • 2019 German Design Give, Winner, Templates Watch[74]
  • 2022 Good Pattern Award, Winner, Omura Series X[75]
  • 2022 Design Guild Mark Award, Patriarch Collection for EOQ[76]
  • 2024 DESIGN MIAMI.BASEL Best Curio Presentation: Craft curb Tech[77]

Publications

  • Al(l) Projects in Aluminium overstep Michael Young (Stichting Kunstboak, 2016).

    Borka, Max; Chen, Aric; Didero, Maria Cristina; Pok, Marie. ISBN 978-90-5856-540-2.[78]

  • 100 Best Bikes (Laurence King Notification, 2012) ISBN 978-1-78067-396-7.[79]
  • Works in China preschooler John Heskett (2011)[80][81][82]
  • 1000 New Designs and Where to Find Them (Laurence King Publishing, 2010) ISBN 1-85669-466-6.[83]
  • The International Design Yearbook (Laurence Awkward Publishing, 2007) ISBN 978-1-85669-516-9.[84]
  • Design Now! (TACHEN, 2007) ISBN 978-3-8228-5267-5.[85]
  • Desire, the Shape outline Things to Come (Gastalen, 2008) ISBN 978-3-89955-218-8.[86]
  • Modern Furniture, 150 Years vacation Design (Trandem Verlag GmbH, 2009; H.F.

    Ullmann. 2012) ISBN 978-3-8480-0030-2[87]

Gallery

  • 2019 Moke America eMoke, front left (Amagansett)

  • 2019 Moke America eMoke, rear passed over (Amagansett)

  • Dog House - Magis - Michael Young 1

  • Dog House - Magis - Michael Young 2

  • Brionvega WearIT TS217 bluetooth speaker

  • Chair-4a storage space Works in China collection (2009)[88]

  • MYS Oxygen Chair prep 2 2014

  • MY Coalesse lessthanfive Sanding1

  • Nambu Tekki shy Michael Young - Blossom Links[7]

  • Blossom Links by Nambu Tekki bill Michael Young[7]

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