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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

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Degree Details

School of Design

Footwear, Accessories, Millinery & Eyewear

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

SHIFT + Video
The advancement of technology will shift our design thinking and manufacturing processes, as well as our lifestyle. I believe the future manufacturing processes will evolve from the factory-made shoe to the home-made 3D printed shoe. 3D printing will allow for customization and then it will also make more sense to assemble one’s shoes locally.
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.

Medium:

3D PRINTING TPU, SILICONE RUBBER
3D printing3D Printing fabricDigital ArtFashion As FunctionFlexible FuturismFootwearInnovationmono-materialmulti-color 3d printingZero-waste

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