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Intro
Michael Young was (born 1966 Sunderland, England) is an Industrial designer based in Hong Kong. He works in the areas of product, furniture and interior design with studios in Hong Kong and Brussels.

Career
Michael young graduated from Kingston University in 1992. Early in his career, he worked with the designer Tom Dixon in London. In 1994 he started is own studio, his studio operated in England, Iceland, Taiwan before finally settling in Hong Kong in 2006. Sir Terrance Conran selected Young as the Most Inspirational British Designer (1997).

Michael Young designs in a wide range of typologies of objects such as headphones, glassware, watches, bicycles, furniture, lighting and bags. In his work, he is interested in combining design with technical abilities of the local industry, this means often working directly with Chinese manufacturers and industrialists. Throughout his career, he worked with clients such as DuPont, Coca-Cola. Chivas, Hennessy, Bacardi, Cappellini, Cathay Pacific, Steelcase, Carl Hansen, Schweppes, Giant Bicycles, Asahi and George Jensen.

Young has been the Creative Director for 100% Design Shanghai (2010, 2011, 2012), Prior to that he was the Creative Director for 100% Design Tokyo (2008) and Creative Director of the Asian Aerospace show (2009). His work has been exhibited in the Pompidou Museum and the Louvre Museum in Paris, Design Museum in London and solo exhibition in Kyoto, Miami, Hong Kong, Milan, Paris and Belgium.

Awards
Red Dot award 2012

Tokyo Good Design Award 2011

Red Dot Award 2010

Red Dot Award 2009

Best of dining chair by Wallpaper Design Award 2009

Winner of Eurobike Awards 2008

Biography
Michael Young Biograohy

Publications
Works in China by John Heskett 2011

100 New designs and where to find them (Laurence King Publishing, 2010)

Design Now! (TACHEN 2007)

Desire, the shape of things to come (Gastalen, 2008)

Modern Furniture, 150 years of design (Trandem Verlag GmbH, 2009)