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Yeela Zada
Industrial Design BDes

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem

Graduates: 2024

Specialisms: Product Design / Ceramics / Contemporary Craft

My location: Tel Aviv, Israel

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Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem

Yeela Zada

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First Name: Yeela

Last Name: Zada

University / College: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem

Course / Program: Industrial Design BDes

Graduates: 2024

Specialisms: Product Design / Ceramics / Contemporary Craft

My Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

About

I think with my hands, which led me to study industrial design and deepen my knowledge and experience in a variety of materials and traditional crafts. My design process is driven by a love for exploring forms, techniques, textures, and the stories that objects can tell. I'm an avid collector of unique items, often finding inspiration in the old and new treasures I discover at flea markets. My fascination with different cultures, diverse cuisines, and new places enriches my creative perspective. I strive to create simple, clean designs that blend practicality with meaningful storytelling, merging the charm of the past with a modern aesthetic.

The hide is a remarkable and intricate organ, a living layer that protects and encloses what is vital. When alive, it is flexible; when dead, it becomes dry and cold. This project explores a dialogue between leather and clay, two breathable and porous materials, through the method of wet molding on unsintered ceramicware. This process involves softening the leather by allowing it to "drink" water through the ceramic vessel’s walls, thus becoming flexible and malleable before it hardens in its new form. The leather stretches and adapts to the vessel, absorbing minerals that dye the areas in contact with the clay, resulting in a new shape. During the drying phase, the ceramic vessels absorb water and material particles from the leather, leaving their mark and creating patterns of movement on the vessel as well. This series of vessels investigates a language in which neither the ceramicware nor the leather dictates the form; instead, they create it together.