Reiten Cheng

Reiten Cheng, Yang Cheng, is an industrial designer who merges design and engineering to change the relationship people have with physical objects. From a family of carpenters and tailors, he moved from mechanical engineering to industrial design at ArtCenter College of Design, and works by analysing the user journey to find the causes of dissatisfaction, then prototyping until the pain point is gone.

His Polyformer is an open-source, 3D-printed machine that recycles PET water bottles into filament for 3D printers, and it has circulated widely among makers. Other projects include EURYDICE, a planar magnetic headphone system built around ergonomics, ROG Lens, a gaming AR glasses concept inheriting ASUS ROG’s design language, the Surface Watch derived from Microsoft’s Surface line, and the MUJI Bin wet waste bin.