Mingdu Studio

Mingdu Studio, also known as Mingdu Design, is the practice that designer Chen Liang founded in Hamburg in 2016. Liang studied industrial design at the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts and product design at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, then worked in several German furniture and product companies before opening his own studio.

With offices in Hamburg and Shenzhen, Mingdu works on furniture and home products as well as bookbinding, interaction and spatial design, and runs its own design research on craft and cultural exchange. Its output has been recognised with a Red Dot: Best of the Best, an iF Design Award and a German Design Award, and in 2020 Liang was named one of AD China’s best emerging designers.