Footwear, Accessories, Millinery & Eyewear
Yunfei Ma
Yunfei Ma is an innovative and creative footwear designer. Her works are strongly inspired by the architectural structure, sculptures, and contemporary abstract arts. She is fascinated by the combination of existing footwear manufacturing methods with modern 3d printing technology to create something ‘new’ for the future footwear.
Previous Degree
BA Cordwainer Footwear, London College of Fashion
Awards
The wining team --- Porsche design x RCA
Second Prize ------- Timberland x RCA
Second Prize ------- The Cordwainers National student of the year awards 2018
The future of innovative footwear
“Shift +” collection explores the possibility of multi-colour 3D printed and Zero-waste 3D printed structures to create imaginative and sustainable shoes.
Sharp G 3D Digital rendering
Multi-color 3d Printed TPU Sneaker
Silicone boot with zero-waste 3D printed TPU sole （model: Cvlada Xie)
Multi-color 3D Printed TPU, playful and flexible spring structure
Multi-color 3D printed TPU fabric (zero-waste)
Macrame boot
Multi-color 3D printed boots
My work is strongly inspired by the animation Ghost in the Shell, by sculptor Antony Gormley, Bridget Riley’s, Piet Mondrian’s and visual futurist Syd Mead’s artworks, as well as by brutalist architectural structures.
My aim is to design functional 3D printed walking art. I am interested in a response to the surrounding space through relationships of color, shape, and scale. I have tried to generate my abstract artworks and applied them to my designs by using 3D printing technology.