Profile

This official collaboration between Yael Mer & Shay Alkalay started after many years of sharing life, thoughts, ideas and everything in-between. Yael’s main focus includes turning two-dimensional sheet materials into curvaceous functional forms, whereas Shay is fascinated by how things move, function and react. Together they work under the name Raw-Edges and share a common goal to create objects that have never been seen before.

Since their graduation show at the Royal College of Art in 2006, they have received several highly respected awards including The British Council Talented Award, iF Gold Award, Dutch Design Award,  Wallpaper*  Design Award 2009 and the Elle Decoration International Design Award for best furniture of 2008_09 and just recently the Designer of the Future Award for 2009 from Design Miami/ Basel.

Their works have been exhibited at Johnson Trading Gallery in New York, FAT Galerie in Paris, Scope Art Fair in Basel and Rossana Orlandi Milan. Their designs can be found within the permanent collection of the MoMA New-York and The Design Museum London, and in production with Cappellini, Established & Sons and Arco. In addition, Yael & Shay produce unique and limited-edition designs within their own studio in London. Their work has been featured in many major design publications and newspapers worldwide.

 

Yael Mer
Born 1976 Tel-Aviv
Education:
2007 MA Royal College of Art – Ron Arad’s Design Products Course - Platform 10: Daniel Charny and Roberto Feo
2005 Intensive Pattern Cutting London College of Fashion
2002 BA Bezalel Art and Design Academy Jerusalem
2001 Kunste Academy Stuttgart Germany

Past Experience:
2007/08 Rolf Sachs Studio
2007 Kobold - bags, luggage and accessories design, Xiamen China
2006/07 RCA Innovation & Gifu Invited Designer Programme
2005 – El Ultimo Grito - Internship
2003 Artist in Resident – Mino Paper Project, Japan
2003/04 Campus – Digital Product Design Department

Shay Alkalay
Born 1976 Tel-Aviv
Education:
2006 MA Royal College of Art - Ron Arad’s Design Products Course - Platform 10: Daniel Charny and Roberto Feo
2002 BA Bezalel Art and Design Academy Jerusalem
2001 Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Past Experience:
2007 Kobold - bags, luggage and accessories design, Xiamen China
2006 – El Ultimo Grito – Design Assistance
2002/04 Zehavi Environmental Design Studio Tel-Aviv

Previous Exhibitions

2009 Jul

2009 Jun

2009 Jun

2009 May

2009 Apr

2009 Apr

2009 Apr

2009 Apr

2009 Apr

2009 Mar

2009 Mar

2009 Feb

2009 Feb

2009 Jan

 

2008 Dec

2008 Nov

2008 Oct

2008 Sep

2008 Sep

2008 Sep

2008 Sep

2008 Aug

2008 Jun

2008 Jun

2008 May

2008 Apr

2008 Feb

2008 Jan

2008 Jan

 

2007 Nov

2007 Nov

2007 Sep

2007 Sep

2007 Jun

2007 Jun

2007 Apr

2007 Jan

 

2006 Nov

2006 Nov

2006 Sep

2006 Jun

2006 May

2006 Apl

2006 Apr

 

2005 Apr

2003 Dec

2003 Nov

2003 Sep

2003 Apr

2002 Oct

2001 Oct 

Katonah

Hertogenbosch

Basel

Palermo

Milan

Milan

Milan

Paris

Montréa

Perugia Italy

Shanghai

Stockholm

Geneva

New-York

 

Jerusalem

Turin

Tokyo

Gijon

London

London

London

London

London

Basel

Paris

Milan

London

Cologne

Cologne

 

Madrid

New-York

London

London

Tokyo

Shanghai

London

Cologne

 

Tokyo

Como

London

London

London

Milan

Milan

 

Milan

Mino

Tokyo

Tel-Aviv

Milan

Tel-Aviv

Tel-Aviv

Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor – Katonah Museum of Art, State of New-York

‘Repeat Please’ – Stedelijk Museum, Hertogenbosch The Netherland

Design Miami/ Basel - Designers of the Future Award 2009

Representing UK Design at the Palermo Design Week

Representing UK at Elle Decoration ‘Tortona Basment’
  
Spazio Rossana Orlandi

Punk Craft, Design Miami & Fendi, Milan

FAT Galerie, Paris

Commissaries Gallery

Over Design Over

Established & Sons at Design Republic
 
Pivot at 'Into Dutch Design' at the 2009 Stockholm Furniture Fair

Established & Sons, at What Else Gallery

Stack has been acquisitioned to the permanent collection, MoMA

 

Yellow Pages, a guests seminar - Bezalel Art and Design Academy

In Resident – Interni Magazine & Turin World Design Capital

DesignTide, Tokyo, British Council Japan

Nowhere Now Here – Laboral, Spain

Under the Same Roof – OKAYstudio at Aram Gallery

From Now to Eternity – Arts Co ‘Mother’ Biscuit Building

Heart & Design - River Island at Christie’s South Kensington London

PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH  -  Established & Sons LIMITED Gallery

HABITATS FOR BIRDS, BATS AND BEES, PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY

Louise Blouin Media, Scope Art Fair Basel

FIT – FAT Galerie Paris

Stack - Launched by Established & Sons, La Pelota

OKAYstudio, DNA Form, Kensington Olimpya

Pivot - Launched by Arco, Design Post, IMM Cologne
    
d3 Contest Talent, German Design Council, IMM Cologne

 

OKAYstudio in Madrid, installation at the Hotel Puerta America

New Staff, Johnson Trading Gallery, Curated by Paul Johnson
 
Gradual, Brompton Design District . Curated by Martino Gamper

OKAYstudio at BoxFresh Covent Garden

Life Style Exhibition, Big Sight Tokyo

100% Design Shanghai

Ideal Home Show, Earl’s Court London

OKAYstudio exhibition, Passagen, IMM Cologne

  

British Council Talented, Paul Smith, Curated by Tom Dixon and Thorsten van Elten

Miniartexitl, Como Italy
  
Art Council, Super Design Market, London

Royal College of Art, Summer Show 2006

Disturbance, Great Eastern Hotel. Curated by Roberto Reo & Daniel Charny
   
Made by Machine, RCA Milan, Salon del Mobile

Talented, British Council Milan Curated by Tom Dixon and Thorsten van Elten

 

livingspace Internos Gallery April Milan. Curated by Ron Arad

Japanese Paper Museum, Mino Japan.

Cibone . Curated by Masaki Yokokawa

About Design, Bezalel Gallery, Tel-Aviv

Bezalel in Milan, a group exhibition at the salon satellite Milan

Designs, group exhibition, Tel-Aviv

Contemporary Young Design Show