About

Stories are told.
Objects are kept.

Every project begins by reading the brand: what it stands for, who it is for, the feeling it promises. Then the translation — form, colour, material, finish, touch — until the object reads as the brand.

An eye formed across cultures.

Shanghai, then eleven years in Japan, now my own studio — registered in Singapore, working worldwide. Japan taught me the quiet language of objects — the resistance of a button, the sound of a component clicking home. The decisions that matter most are the ones nobody sees. Moving between cultures taught the rest: premium in Tokyo is not premium in London.

The moment you hold something and something shifts. Not dramatically. Quietly, irrevocably.

For the moment it's kept.

The translation carries through production — I stay with it until the object in the customer's hand is the one the brand promised. The work is for DTC brands in home and wellness, where the product is the brand, the unboxing is the first handshake, and the relationship plays out at home.

How that becomes a working process →

A few brands at a time.

If you're a founder building a product that must earn its place on the counter, and in the customer's life — let's talk.

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Design philosophy

“The moment a person falls in love with an object happens before they understand why. That is where I work.”

Jinni Zhang Design Studio Pte. Ltd.Brand-led product design · Singapore registered · Working worldwide