Design Art

Daniel Elkayam

Daniel Elkayam is a multidisciplinary designer-artist based in Amsterdam. A graduate of the Social Design MA program at the Design Academy Eindhoven, his work combines artistic research into material and environmental contexts with storytelling through objects. His practice explores the boundaries of aesthetics and the tension between control and release, engaging with themes of time, identity, and memory.Wrinkled is a series of hand-crafted ceramic objects that examines the gap between ideals of beauty and natural imperfections. Through classical forms and raw, skin-like textures, Elkayam develops a visual language that highlights the expressive potential of what is considered “unbeautiful.” The series proposes a renewed understanding of beauty as something existing in the tension between attraction and rejection.