My design approach is listening to a matter by hands-on experiments and shaping it in the most "natural" way. Within my practices, I attempt to create the beauty of balancing between control of design and spontaneity of materials.
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About
Erco Lai
He is a designer of a wide imagination and a strongly creative mind. Still, his fantasy isn't stuck in a non-concrete world of ideas; he really gets his hands dirty experimenting with alternative building materials. Erco Lai's ultimate goal is to bring innovation in the manufacturing industry, promoting the abandonment of unsustainable mechanisms. His guide has always been the Earth itself, learning from natural processes.
Erco Lai 中文介紹待編輯。
Award & Grant
2023 Stimuleringsfonds Opencall Milan Design Week
2023 The Index Project — Nominees
2022 STARTS Prize, Ars Electronica — Nomination
2022 Guiltlessplastic — Finalist
2022 Creative Industries Fund NL — Starting Grant
2021 MA Industrial Design Department Award — Nomination
2018 Golden Pin Design Award, Taiwan
Exhibitions
2024 Milan Design Week — ISOLA
2024 Stockholm Furniture Fair — Greenhouse
2023 London Design Week — Mint Gallery
2023 International Steel Sculpture Festival, Kaohsiung
2023 Maison&Objet, Paris
2023 ALCOVA, Milan
2022 Object Rotterdam
2021 Dutch Design Week
Selected Clients & Collaborations
Blue City (NL), Biophilica (UK), TPCreative (TW), Binary Pottery (TW), Hevo deco (TW), 20MM (TW)
A design office aims to cooperate with material-focused developers, scientists or start-ups to elevate future materials from experiments into the context of daily life by giving matter meaningful forms.
ercoffice 中文工作室宣言待編輯。
About
ercoffice
Drawing from his cultural background, Erco Lai used the five elements theory as a framework to illustrate how things work on Earth. ercoffice considers itself a design factory, focusing on digital craft, nature-based technology, and circular materials. It strives to find equilibrium between traditional craftsmanship and machine production.
ercoffice 中文工作室介紹待編輯。
