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Michael Young (industrial designer)

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Michael Young
Prototype verification, Hex table by Michael Young
Born (1966-08-23) 23 August 1966 (age 58)
Sunderland, England
NationalityBritish
EducationKingston University
OccupationIndustrial designer
Websitemichael-young.com

Michael Young (born 23 August 1966) is a British industrial designer and creative director based in Hong Kong. He works in the areas of product, furniture and interior design with studios in Hong Kong and Brussels.[1] He is known for unconventional use of materials and manufacturing processes,[2] and collaborations with brands 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 it usually creates a need for things that perform."[6]

Life and career

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Blossom Links by Nambu Tekki, Prince Consort Gallery, V&A (2024)[7]
MOKE recreational vehicle designed by Young (c. 2022)[8]
MY Sofa, Gallery ALL (2018)[9]

Young was born in Sunderland, England.[10] He studied at Kingston University and graduated in 1993.[11] Early in his career, he worked with the designer Tom Dixon in London.[12][13][14] A grant from the Crafts Council in 1994 enabled him to produce his first collection.[15] In 1997 he was selected by Sir Terrance Conran as the "Most Inspirational British Designer".[16][17]

In 1994 he started his own studio and operated in England, Iceland, Taiwan before settling in Hong Kong in 2006 to avoid becoming a "European design casualty, wandering from trade fair to trade fair."[18][19][20] Young has been the creative director for 100% Design Shanghai (2010, 2011, 2012),[21][22] prior to which he was the creative director for 100% Design Tokyo (2008), and creative director of the Asian Aerospace show (2009). He is a frequent public speaker, panellist, and design award jury member.[23][24][25]

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

The Hanger Tree by Katrin Olina Petursdottir and Michael Young featured on a 2010 series 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 he considered this project a "call of duty".[39] In 2018 Young re-engineered a continuation model, which is also used as the basis for the Electric Moke.[40][41][3]

His work has been exhibited the Design Museum in London, the Pompidou Centre and the Louvre Museum in Paris,[24] and at solo exhibitions in Kyoto, Miami, Hong Kong, Milan, Paris and Belgium in 2016 for an exhibition curated by Maria Cristina Didero called Al(l) Projects with Aluminum at the Centre d'Innovation et de Design at Grand-Hornu.[42][43][44][45]

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

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

He has spoken openly about growing up with dyslexia and how this impacted his education and career, stating "Dyslexia very much prevented me from becoming an academic. Every day in class I was left in my own imagination. I didn't really absorb any information from mathematics, English, geography, history […] I made my own universe and kind of built my own way."[60][61][62]

Awards

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Publications

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  • Al(l) Projects in Aluminium by Michael Young (Stichting Kunstboak, 2016). Borka, Max; Chen, Aric; Didero, Maria Cristina; Pok, Marie. ISBN 978-90-5856-540-2.[76]
  • 100 Best Bikes (Laurence King Publishing, 2012) ISBN 978-1-78067-396-7.[77]
  • Works in China by John Heskett (2011)[78][79][80]
  • 1000 New Designs and Where to Find Them (Laurence King Publishing, 2010) ISBN 1-85669-466-6.[81]
  • The International Design Yearbook (Laurence King Publishing, 2007) ISBN 978-1-85669-516-9.[82]
  • Design Now! (TACHEN, 2007) ISBN 978-3-8228-5267-5.[83]
  • Desire, the Shape of Things to Come (Gastalen, 2008) ISBN 978-3-89955-218-8.[84]
  • Modern Furniture, 150 Years of Design (Trandem Verlag GmbH, 2009; H.F. Ullmann. 2012) ISBN 978-3-8480-0030-2[85]
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  • 2019 Moke America eMoke, front left (Amagansett)
    2019 Moke America eMoke, front left (Amagansett)
  • 2019 Moke America eMoke, rear left (Amagansett)
    2019 Moke America eMoke, rear left (Amagansett)
  • Dog House - Magis - Michael Young 1
    Dog House - Magis - Michael Young 1
  • Dog House - Magis - Michael Young 2
    Dog House - Magis - Michael Young 2
  • Brionvega WearIT TS217 bluetooth speaker
    Brionvega WearIT TS217 bluetooth speaker
  • Chair-4a for Works in China collection (2009)[86]
    Chair-4a for Works in China collection (2009)[86]
  • MYS Oxygen Chair prep 2 2014
    MYS Oxygen Chair prep 2 2014
  • MY Coalesse lessthanfive Sanding1
    MY Coalesse lessthanfive Sanding1
  • Nambu Tekki by Michael Young - Blossom Links[7]
    Nambu Tekki by Michael Young - Blossom Links[7]
  • Blossom Links by Nambu Tekki x Michael Young[7]
    Blossom Links by Nambu Tekki x Michael Young[7]

References

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