Andrea Ponti

Andrea Ponti, born in 1985 in Cagliari, Italy, is a Hong Kong-based Italian designer specializing in product and industrial design. His projects combine the elegance of Italian design with the lightness of Japanese minimalism. After seven years in Japan, Andrea Ponti now lives in Hong Kong, where he founded Ponti Design Studio in 2012. He designs for multiple global companies, including Casetify, Fender, Haier, KEF, Kodak, Monos, NetEase, Oppo, Panasonic, The Peninsula Hotels, Philips, and Samsonite. He has received numerous international design awards, including the Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award, and Good Design Award. A graduate of the Politecnico of Milan, Italy, Andrea Ponti lived seven years in Japan between 2006 and 2013. He started as a researcher in industrial and transportation design at Kyushu University in Fukuoka and worked as a young designer under Japanese design masters Chiaki Murata in Osaka and Junzo Yamashita in Kyoto. In these formative years, Andrea Ponti honed his artistic language, design skills, and knowledge of technology, as well as traditional Japanese materials and manufacturing techniques. In 2013, Andrea Ponti moved to Hong Kong, where he has been heading Ponti Design Studio and broadening his range of design projects and services, with a focus on technology and sustainability. Hong Kong is a constant source of inspiration for him, and his projects reflect the spirit of the city. The dualism of East and West, past and present, art and technology best represents his professional development and design language.