Generative Code Patterns Trace Across MM Collective's Ceramic Vases
MK Designers' MM Collective translates peony, lily and tulip into abstract patterns via generative code, printed onto three ceramic vases bridging graphic and product design.
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- Materials & Products
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- By Grace Kim
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- 2 min read
Key takeaways
- MM Collective is a series of three ceramic vases by MK Designers, the collaboration of graphic designer Michaela Zdeňková and product designer Marek Kounovský.
- Each vase starts from a flower — peony, lily or tulip — whose form is translated into an abstract structure through generative code and applied to the ceramic surface.
- The flowers carry personal meaning: the peony is the graphic designer's favorite, the lily the product designer's, and the tulip was chosen by both.
Graphic designer Michaela Zdeňková and product designer Marek Kounovský, who work together as MK Designers, have released MM Collective: a series of three ceramic vases that fuse generative coding with product design.
Each vase takes a single flower — the peony, the lily or the tulip — as its starting point. The collection draws on a personal habit shared by the two designers: giving each other flowers. The peony is the graphic designer's favorite flower, the lily is the product designer's, and the tulip was selected by both.
The design process moves in three steps. A flower's natural form is translated into an abstract structure through digital code. The resulting generative pattern is then transferred onto the surface of the ceramic vase, where it meets a physical form developed through product design.
The original floral motifs are not immediately recognizable in the finished objects. Instead, each flower functions as input data, moving through a sequence from natural form to digital code and finally to a physical object. According to the designers, this process creates a connection between the organic and the digital while bringing graphic language into the three-dimensional form of the vase.
The project sits at the intersection of two disciplines. MM Collective examines the relationship between graphic and spatial design, between code and material, and between natural form and digital transformation. Zdeňková contributes the graphic layer generated by code; Kounovský shapes the vase itself. The three objects bind the personal dimension of the flower exchange to this cross-disciplinary method.
The collection joins a growing body of work in which designers use algorithms not as decoration but as a translation tool — converting organic source material into surface patterns that no hand could draw directly. For MK Designers, the vases mark a first attempt at testing where the boundary between a two-dimensional graphic language and a three-dimensional ceramic object actually lies.
Original: mkdesigners.eu
