Shi-Kai Tseng
Assistant Professor
Studio Shikai Design Director
Royal College of Art – Design Products MA
Ming Chuan University Department Of Product Design
Shikai Tseng is an awards wining multi-disciplinary designer base in Taiwan. His works focus on the exploration of materials, design processes and stories behind, with his sensitive sense, the results are usually poetic and various. His works range cover objects, lighting, furniture, space and food. After graduating with an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in 2011, he founded the London-based, award-winning joint-studios Poetic Lab and Beyond Object and left in mid 2015, and curated numbers remarkable exhibition and events, include Eataipei for World Design Capital Taipei 2016, and Eatopia for 2016 London Design Biennale Taiwan Pavilion, both focus on how the cultures, issues and histories could be passed to audiences through food and multi dimensions senses.
He now works as the assistant professor in Shih Chien University, also the director of Studio Shikai.
Experience
2021- now, assistant professor, Shih Chien University
2018-now, Visiting Tutor at Shih Chien University
2017 Director, Hualien International Stone Workshop
2016 Curator, Eatopia, Taiwan Pavilion, London Design Biennale 2016
2015-2017 Lecturer at Taiwan University of Science & Technology
2015– Curator, Eataipei, 2016 WDC Taipei, London
2013-2015 Co-founder/Design Director, Beyond Object, UK
2013-2015 Co-founder/Design Director, Poetic Lab Design Ltd., UK 2008-2011 MA, Product Design Course, RCA, London, UK
Award
2019 Design Anthology Award – Best Accessory Design Winner
2019 Design Anthology Award – Best Lighting Design Finalist
2018 Shenzhen International Industrial Design Fair – The Great One Award – Best Exhibition Design
2017 Shopping Design Taiwan Design BEST 100 – Best Designer of the Year
2017 Shopping Design Taiwan Design BEST 100 – Best Local Culture Contribution Award
2017 LaVie Taiwan Creative Award 100 – Best Exhibition of the Year, Eatopia
2017 Good Design Award Japan- Hand Drip Coffee Set for JIA. inc
2016 Shopping Design Taiwan Design BEST 100 – Best Exhibition of the Year, Eatopia
2015 M&O Asia Rising Talent Award
2014 EllE DECORATION INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARD, China Region, Young design talent
2013 Salone Satellite – Design Report Award – Grand Prize
2013 Salone Satellite – Salone Satellite Award – Third Prize
2007-2009 Braun Prize, iF Concept, Red dot design award
Exhibition
2018 The Food & City, Curator, ShenZhen International Furniture Fair, China
2017 Hualien International Stone Workshop, Curator, Taiwan
2017 Way to Home, Way to the Future, Talisman, Palazzo Clerici, Milan, Italy
2017 Taiwanese Grocery Explosion, Co-curator, Taiwan Culture Expo
2016 Eatopia, Curator London Design Biennale Taiwan Pavilion, UK
2015 Eataipei, Curator, World Design Capital 2016 Taipei – London Special Exhibition
2014 Ripple for Lobmeyr, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy2014 Bamboo Forest, mint, London, UK
2014 Bamboo Forest – Salone Satellite, Salone Del Mobile, Milan, Italy
2013 Lightopia – Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2013 Beyond Object – Designjunction, London Design Week, London, UK
2013 Illumination – Maison&Objet, Curated by Elizabeth Leriche, Paris, France
2013 Beyond Object – Salone Satellite, Salone Del Mobile, Milan, Italy
2012 Bronze China – Porto Cervo 2012, Gallery FUMI, Sardinia, Italy
2012 PhotoGraphy – Polifemo Photography Associatio, Salone del Mobile 2012, Milan, Italy
2011 PhotoGraphy Film in POWER OF MAKING, V&A Museum, London, UK
2011 RCAintent, Salone Del Mobile, Milan, Italy