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YOAV RECHES

Yoav Reches investigates links between technology, user needs and material culture. With a body of work spanning product design, furniture, set design, sculpture, & performance, Yoav's work expresses an ongoing interest in expanding both conceptual and practical applications of product design.

Yoav holds an MFA Royal College of Art, London & BA from Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Israel. He has supported various projects as a designer from early ideation stage to mass manufacturing as a design consultant. Since 2012 has led Formlabs industrial design team, launching multiple generations of desktop SLA / SLS 3D printing systems. Yoav's work has been widely exhibited internationally in venues such as Milan Furniture Fair, London Design Week, Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin, La Manufacture National de Sèvres Gallery, Paris, The Third Biennale for Ceramics, Tel Aviv, Design Museum Holon and Mingei international museum SF.

Yoav’s research at CK integrates principles of manufacturing to make non-identical & non-linear vessel forms. Using a hybrid of wheel throwing, extruding and hand building techniques, he developed objects that reveal architectural qualities such as exposed cross sections in order to re-think orientations, & re-imagine function.