The value of culture is not innate, but is based on understanding. For people who do not understand a culture, its symbols, forms and even rituals may be meaningless.

A typical example is the traditional jade peace button – although many people wear it, they often do not know why it is shaped like this or what it actually represents.
Therefore, I will combine the design of the peace button with tyre objects to use the common language of the world to spread the culture of Chinese jade.

He uses humour and thoughtfulness in his work, combining design and production methods to. question the identity and meaning of jewellery and objects. His work is a personal response to everyday experiences and observations. Yichen works independently and collaboratively on private and public projects, personal research projects and collaborative design projects. Has experience working with various brands like Louis Vuitton and Swarovski.
He uses jade and combining objects and contemporary jewellery design to innovate more possibilities of jade material. He used CNC processes to work with 3D carving on jade material and stone carving.

Yichen Zhao is a jewellery artist who graduated with BA in jewellery from CSM in UAL and now studying in RCA. He uses humour to question the identity of jewellery and objects.