Ilsa Yumeng Li is a Chinese-born, US-based award-winning designer, fiber artist, and founder who innovates on interactive tangibles by daily self-questioning “Why not make it softer to celebrate humanity-centered design and neo-interface experience?”
As a cross-disciplinary artist in mixed media & tech, her works mainly discuss the seamless, touching, and soft interactive interface with humans across dimensions from space to wearables, in decentralized, elastic, and anti-fragile forms. Her works vividly discover, define and portray SOFT interfaces that could friendly and naturally interact with people.
ILSA’s work has been awarded iF Design Award, IDA Gold, European Product Design Award Top Design, and featured by design publications including Yanko Design, Tuvie Design, DesignLab, TrendHunter, and 3D Natives.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from Tongji University where she trained in creative fabricating and metalworking including form learning, Viscom, kinetic sculpture, 3d, and printing. At Parsons School of Design, she focuses on interactive fiber design.