Brut Cake is a brand that’s devoted to enriching people’s lives with creativity and art through functional products. Founded in 2011 by Nicole TENG, who moved from Taiwan to China in 2007, now based in Australia. She quickly found herself captivated by the contagiously creative energy of Shanghai. So after spending a year in this city, she decided to quit her decade-long career in advertising and sate her creative needs. Nicole then became a gallery curator at the now defunct Plum Gallery and pursued different creative outlets like painting and ceramics in her free time. After dabbling in a variety of mediums and slowly building a body of creative work of her own, she finally started to hone in on her artistic voice. “I realized that making something, giving it to somebody, and seeing them use it in their daily life provided me an incredibly rewarding feeling.”

Year of design and applied art: 2019

Incubation project: Da Kids x Brut Cake x CUUNION