teawith kettle

We are a diverse team; our members all come from different design backgrounds. As a team member, my major role is art director. I majored in Crafts Graphic Design at the Central Academy of Arts and Design (Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University) and in Visual Communication at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London). I also have 20 years of comprehensive design experience and continuous learning across various design projects, such as packaging, form, materials, products, and more.

I am most interested designing utensils that is related to the aesthetics of oriental life, and can be applied to our daily life.

Great design needs a favorable climate, including geographical and human conditions. With a suitable background, a designer’s talent can be discovered, create trends, or even change people's lives. Some of the greatest designs are so quietly impactful that they influence the shapes of lives, cultures, and countries as time passes, eventually becoming classics. In my opinion, great design should last a long time, produce continuous value in people's lives and will never go out of style.

The overall development of society influences and forms people's artistic pursuits and lifestyles, creating trends. Keeping up with trends will produce many designs that conform to the trends. In the evolution of trend, it is only good design that can stand the test of time and become everlasting.

Good design is a beam of light which will illuminate a corner of life. Through good design, people will unexpectedly encounter the beauty of life, and experience the "beauty in the ordinary”.

With a well-defined product, there is half a chance that the product will succeed. A well-defined product comes from the insights of life, the synergy of comprehensive skills, and the long-term pursuit of excellence.

Fortunately, we have a close friend and mentor — the world-class, outstanding Chinese designer, Chi Wing Lo. He is passionate about the Teawith Kettle and provided a lot of guidance. At the Milan Design Week in 2016, the Teawith Kettle was fortunate to be released at Chi Wing Lo’s Living Museum. His control and precision of the details were impressive. I went to Milan to see his exhibition and discovered to my delight that the Teawith Kettle also had the honor of participating in this exhibition. I also went to his studio to see how the workers produced the furniture and learned a lot about the long history of hand-crafted furniture in the West.

The Teawith Kettle is my most satisfying design so far. It’s not just because of the award and success that make me feel great, but when I take myself out of the designer's identity to use and look at it from an average customer’s perspective, I can really feel the vitality it exudes. That makes me very proud.

I may have become an archaeologist； I enjoy the sense of surprise and discovery.

Design is a part of my life; it became a habit and shaped the way I think. Design can make everyone's life more enjoyable.

I am grateful to all the teachers, colleagues, and friends who have guided, helped, and supported me during my academic career. Under the influence of my grandfather, who loves calligraphy, and my father, who is accomplished at painting and advertising, I developed the original awareness of design and embarked on my design path.