Silver Jewelry Design · 2022
The Power of Pastry Interactive Jewellery Kit
by Fenghua Ye
- A' Design Award 2022 Silver Winner in Jewelry Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 27,953
- Verification code 31D2739495 · Verify this award
About The Power of Pastry Interactive Jewellery Kit
The Power of Pastry is a collection of interactive paper jewelry kits. The collection includes rings, bracelets and brooches, inspired by the making processes and structures of pastries. Each piece is folded directly from one prepared paper sheet, so no glue is needed. A recorded guide video explains every folding step. The kits are offered at different levels, from simple rings to more complex brooches. The paper is laser cut and engraved, and is left blank so that each user can add a personal style. The collection shows that jewelry need not rely on precious materials.
Within the tradition of contemporary conceptual jewelry, FENGHUA YE's The Power of Pastry Interactive Jewellery Kit represents a thoughtful investigation into the intersection of geometric abstraction, material transformation, and participatory design practice. The three bracelet variations presented here appear to draw upon origami folding principles and architectural modularity, translating the ephemeral qualities of paper craft into wearable sculptural form. Each piece demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how repeated geometric units can generate complex visual interest through systematic arrangement, whether clustering in crystalline aggregation, compressing into accordion rhythms, or spiraling outward in radial expansion. The designer seems to engage with questions central to contemporary jewelry discourse: how might adornment transcend passive decoration to become interactive experience, and how can geometric precision coexist with organic human form? The stark monochromatic presentation—pristine white forms against profound darkness—elevates the work toward meditative clarity, inviting focused contemplation of structure, shadow, and spatial relationship. Technical accomplishment manifests in the crisp definition of each fold and the consistent material behavior across varied configurations, suggesting meticulous attention to engineering alongside aesthetic refinement. The pieces may reference culinary arts through their title, perhaps drawing unexpected parallels between the layered, folded qualities of pastry preparation and these architectural jewelry forms. Thematically, the work appears to celebrate the transformative potential inherent in simple materials when subjected to systematic folding logic, honoring traditions from paper craft to architectural experimentation. Viewers might consider how these pieces would transform through wearing and handling, and what intimate dialogue might develop between geometric precision and bodily movement.
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- Unique Properties
- Here is a collection of interactive paper jewellery kits, which invite audiences to participate in the jewellery making process following the recorded guide video.These special jewellery were simplified so that audiences can fold them directly from a prepared paper piece without needing any glue during the whole making process. The colour of this those jewellery is blank because designer wants to leave some space for audiences to design their different styles.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Scale of Paper Bracelets:
- Piece 1: Width 4cm
-Piece 2: Width 4.8cm
-Piece 3: Width 3.1cm
Scale of Paper Rings:
-Piece 1: 5.5cm×3.7cm
-Piece 2: 4.5cm×4.1cm
-Piece 3: 4.8cm×4.5cm
Scale of Paper Brooches:
-Piece 1: 9.4cm×5.8cm
-Piece 2: 5.05cm×5.05cm
-Piece 3: 6.3cm×6.3cm - Tags
- Interactive, Contemporary, Sustainable
- Production Technology
- Laser Cut & Engraving
- Design Challenge
- The most challenged thing during the whole design process is the paper's thickness. The thickness of 3 kits are slightly different, because they all have different structures. For example, the paper bracelet kit has more complex sturcturs, so it should be made in thinner paper. The ring kit needs more strong support, so it will be made in the thicker paper. In order to find out the most suitable thickness for different kit, the folding step needs to be tested again and again. It was the challenge of patient.
- Project Duration
- The project started in September 2020 and finished in May 2021 in Edinburgh.
In June 2021, it was exhibited in New Designer Online Show in UK.
In July 2021, it was selected as 'One to Watch' in the Competition of Bright Young Gems in London.
In September 2021, it was exhibited in Gwangju Design Biennale International Invitational Poster Exhibition in South Korea.
And same in September 2021, it was also been shortlist in the Globle Design Graduate Show 2021 Collabrate with Gucci.
In October 2021, it was selected for the Online Exhibition 'So Fresh + So Clean' in Amarica. - Operation Flow
- Designer believes that jewellery should not be limited by precious materials. Finding a way to communicate with audience is also a way to represnt jewellery. The interactive paper jewellery kits invite audiences to participate in the jewellery making process following the recorded guide video. The kits have different levels from simple paper rings to complex paper brooches. Auidences can try to challenge themselves step to step to feel the magic change from a flat paper to a 3D paper jewellery without glue. It will be a silent but amazing communication between designer and audience.
- Research
- This research began from making different pastrys, such as Chinese bao, pie, croissant and so on. This project was encouraged by homemade pastry, which is an interactive home activity to increase mutual happiness. Designer believed that this ineractive mode can be applied on jewellery design as well that interactive activity between designer and audience. The main material was paper according to the fact that most pastries are made directly by a piece of flat flour dough, these paper pieces of jewellery were simplified so that audiences can fold one paper jewellery directly from a prepared paper piece without needing any glue during the whole making process. Designer drew the digital sketch in software AI inspired by pastrys' structures, them laser cut and engrave paper. Testing and collectiong feedback from others to simplify and improve structures.This kind of design can be used as a sample pack for buyers to try and understand the structure of jewellery before they buy the finished metal work. And even it can replace the normal ticket to increace the value of normal paper ticket. And it is also a sustainable design which can be made by recycle paper. This kind of design encorage designers to give up some traditional concepts and materials to avoid over excavation in some specific materials such as precious stones and metals.
- Inspiration
- The inspirations are making processes and structures of different pastries. Designer was encouraged by homemade pastry, which is an interactive home activity to increase mutual happiness. Designer created a collection of interactive paper jewellery kits, which invite audiences to participate in the jewellery making process with design. And, according to the fact that most pastries are made directly by a piece of flat flour dough, that audiences do not need any glue during the whole making process.
- Image Credits
- Image #1 : Photographer Shannon Toft, Photography, 2021.
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