Izzy Yang is a Designhead
Izzy Yang is a Designhead
Your aesthetic approach embodied as a meme? "idk — any welding meme"
Today’s designhead is a Pink Essay favorite and rising star in the New York design scene and beyond. Featured in our collaborative piece for Family Style and on the 2nd iteration of our Wear Your Chair shirt series, Izzy Yang is an interdisciplinary creative making objects and furniture that blend the industrial and elegant with an anachronous touch. Read on to learn more about Izzy’s world, her favorite synthetic material, and more.
Age: 23
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Sign: Taurus
Site: isabelyang.art
IG: @izzy.yang
Are you a designhead + what does that mean to you? Yes. Designhead feels synonymous to world-builder. I care a lot about creating and nurturing relationships with everyday objects, and I think the most sincere way to do that is to design your world.
The last thing you made: I made a second series of ceramic vessels based on a slip-casted series I had made while at school. I casted custom candles for them.
The next thing you want to make: kinda itching to try some lighting design... but also I think the next few things I make will be more sketch-objects.
A design object you love: I loveeeeee valet stands. Specifically 19th and early 20th century ones. As an object, the valet stand embodies all of the things I am thinking about when I design.
A design object you can’t stand the sight of: the Smooth-On pint size packaging for two part products
What does it mean to “design the future”? “Future” feels too shiny and new… In my work, I’m often looking back into the past and romanticizing an idea of "slow living”. To me, this means being more present with your immediate surroundings and living with more intention. I am pulling at the past and projecting the most important parts into the future I design in order to preserve a more tender way of life.
Words to live by: The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
Your aesthetic approach embodied as a ...
Color: sun-faded black
Texture: 220 grit
Natural Material: red oak
Synthetic Material: steel and swarovski crystals
Meme: idk — any welding meme
Scent: sandalwood
If you could show your work to anyone in the world, it would be: i secretly hope that my work shows up at a place like @tihngs as a nameless artifact from another lifetime... haha
What’s next for you? I want to make some more jewelry and play with more clay