Yinqing Zhu
Yinqing Zhu is a New York–based designer and researcher who recently studied and taught at The Cooper Union.
With a preoccupation with image, surface, and decoration, and a methodical approach to material techniques, his projects always start with unlikely associations and improbable pairings — from protein to photogrammetry, across the medieval and the digital. His ongoing research into the incremental forming of metal, started as scribbles on baking foil, is aspiring towards sculptural and architectural scale without losing its indulgence, its molten lustre, and its allusion to the ornamental cultures of jewelry and armor.
He is currently an architectural and landscape designer working across interior, architecture, and urban scales.
Landscape & Digital Designer
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Designed by Yinqing Zhu.
This work is a prototype within an ongoing exploration of surface, structure, and ornament. Long associated with domesticity, delicacy, and tranquility, the Chinese ceramic plate is here reinterpreted as an armature, formed through incremental pressure. In this digital repoussé, floral ornament—chrysanthemum and peony motifs—no longer operates as surface decoration, but as generative structure.
Detail & Care: Handle with care. Avoid bending or applying pressure. Clean with a soft, dry cloth; do not use abrasive materials.
— Size (L x W x H): 9 × 9 × 1.5”
— Weight: 0.125 lbs
— Materials: Aluminum