Yaoyi Zhong

I’m a designer, dreamer, and nature enthusiast. My love for art and design shapes the work that I do.

Project 1: E DEMONS
An jewelry collection that transforms the wisdom of deep-sea creatures into emotional healing – With the ‘Subculture Aesthetics’ at its core and the cross-temporal dialogue between sea creatures, the wearer will experience a symphony of the deep sea where reason and instinct are intertwined in the interaction with the jewelry.

Project 2: BUTTERFLY HARMONY WITH NATURE
This series of works is based on my love for butterflies, combined with global environmental issues and sustainable development issues, focusing on the death of butterflies in Yunnan and the birth of traditional Chinese non-heritage butterfly wing paintings. I used a technique similar to butterfly wing painting to create a set of jewelry, and let the wearer wear it like the image of the ¡°butterfly god¡±, so as to arouse the audience¡¯s awe of nature. Through the use of natural death butterfly materials, metal handicraft and natural.

Project 3: 3SINS
This series is based on the thoughts I sparked after watching the anime “Gibaro”. I don’t think the good and evil of the banshee in the lake in this work is black and white, but depends on whether the person who meets her is greedy or not. This reminds me that we ordinary people are the same, and the good or bad of people or things depends on the good and evil in our hearts. In this project, my aim is to express the impact of good and evil on the two sides of things through wearable and interactive jewelry. Three of the seven deadly sins (gluttony, greed, and laziness) are the starting point for the test (design) of human nature, and the wearer interacts with the headpiece in the form of a “decompression toy”, so that the wearer can feel that if he fails to accept the temptation, he will be “punished”.

Project 4: My inspiration comes from Zhu Yingtai, the heroine of the Chinese drama film Butterfly Lovers. She is one of the earliest women in China who fought against feudalism and pursued freedom.
The butterfly is the main element of the project, symbolizing freedom. In ancient China, butterflies also represented luck and longevity, bringing blessings to the wearer z.
Bamboo also symbolizes longevity, luck and love in Chinese culture, which has the same meaning as my butterfly, and I hope that the bamboo Mosaic technology will combine them, just like the wings of a butterfly, is double luck.