Yate Xiang

About

Yate Xiang is a designer who continually innovates in the fields of emotional design and sustainable design. She is human-centered and focuses on the subtle needs of users, striving to create products that combine aesthetics and environmental responsibility. Through her continuous exploration of the balance between emotion and sustainability, Yate Xiang provides users with more engaging and lasting design experiences.
Design interests include: Unconscious Product Design, Product Narrative Design, Sustainable Product Design, and Product Experience.

Education:

Royal College of Art, UK
Master of Arts in Product Design (Expected September 2024)

University of Edinburgh, UK
Master of Arts in Design for Change (2023)

Tsinghua University, China
Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design (2021)

Has rich design practice experience and ability in product design, product development, product packaging development, brand positioning and brand visual system. More than 100 design commissions of different volumes have been undertaken
Possesses horizontal and vertical research ability of projects, rigorous academic ability and the ability to translate and apply the results.

Introduction to Graduation Design:

With global warming, people rely more on air-conditioning, but the misuse of air-conditioning will further lead to global warming and urban heat island effect, thus creating a vicious circle. I want to design a product can gradually reduce people’s reliance on air-conditioning and replace the function of a sofa side table. It gives sculptural aesthetics to the home space and at the same time has the original motivation of sustainable living.The project is centred around a porous ceramic material, inspired by the African zeer jar, which makes use of the properties of the material and the water evaporation to carry away heat.