YIELD Studio
Force and Flow
Designer
Sara Barry
YIELD investigates the moment when aluminum begins to transform. Working with industrial extrusions sourced from Montreal, each piece is shaped through controlled bending using a 20-ton press and custom wood molds. Linear profiles are pushed to their yield point, the threshold where elasticity gives way to permanent change. Folds become integrated joints and structural connectors formed directly from the material, eliminating hardware and mechanical assembly. The act of bending becomes both fabrication method and formal language, allowing aluminum to shift from industrial profile to spatial statement.
Hueform transforms recycled plastic into a tactile and chromatic landscape. Through extrusion, industrial waste is guided in its fluid state, where gravity, heat, and pressure shape organic volumes. Color is not applied, but constructed: layered pigments flow within the material, creating subtle chromatic depth. Both sculptural and functional, Hueform reimagines recycled plastic as a material of expressive form, sustainability, and enduring beauty.
Together, the collections position process as central to design, allowing industrial materials to shift into expressive, lasting forms.