Faculty of Design

Material Art & Design

Lei Zhang

Bamboo reports peace

I designed a Child and Mother container necklace. I designed this shape inspired by bamboo. In Chinese traditional culture, Chinese people like bamboo and usually put small bamboo potted plants at home. Bamboo also often appears in Chinese ink painting, which has very good morals, such as peace, promotion, rapid growth, green and environmental protection.

“My design is a container with two hinges opening and closing and a bamboo shoot inside. I use the tip and die technology to link them. It’s a kind of cold joint technique. If you take off the bamboo shoot from the container, the bamboo shoot is also a necklace pendant. The lower part can be used to store the necklace chain, which can be connected to the bamboo shoot pendant. On the outside, I used Chinese traditional weaving technology to make bead necklace chains to match my container necklace pendant and equipped with Green Garnet stones and the same coloured beads. Since some ancient Chinese paintings often use the colour of Green Garnet to make painting pigments, I choose to use this colour of the stone. This makes my overall design more Chinese style. When people see my design, they can think of the characteristics of Chinese culture.”