Michael Young Description

In a career that spans little more than 15 years, British-born and Hong Kong based designer Michael Young, established himself fom the very beginning as one of the world's leading figures in his trade. Apart from his endlessly copied designs and its unparalleled power to generate a vibrant but relaxed atmosphere, the uniqueness of his work also resides in his constant questioning of typologies and habits, combined with the pioneering passion for technology that after some time time also brought him to Asia, continuously crossing borders and pushing innovation to its very limits in a fresh approach that effortlessly blends east and west, or past and future, while marrying the industry to what is often seen as its very opporite: sheer poetry. "It is design as industrial art that interests me, not in a limited edition, but in mass-production".

Born in Sunderland, North England, in 1966, Young once described his fleeing from its hardships "his first major work of design", and followed his heart away from the London scene, its smarties and ther cocktail parties, to Iceland which offered him the seclusion and distance to concentrate on what really mattered: mass-production and working with the industry. The island's hilly, windybut breathtakingly pure, unspoiled and somehow surreal landscape, in ice-cool colours, and largely covered in immaculate snow, holding the middle between a fairy-tale scenery and an acid-dream, also seemed to perfectly fit in its unwordliness - the world Young wanted to create from the beginning, of which had brought him to design in the first place; a longing that reached much further in its scope than the ambition of just being the average designer. It is what makes Young also today sp appealing, especially for the corporate industry and anyone who wants to redo his brand design, or the cosmetic and plastic surgery clinics in Tapei and Florence that asked him to reshape their interiors: Young has a whole word to offer. In many ways it is cartoonsm such as Yogi, the bear who's always happy. It is a world of an unparalleled beauty that escapes the law of gravity, where one can crash time after time and always get up again, without a scratch, and forever now.

Web-Site from Michael Young: http://www.michael-young.com