CHENG JINYING CV






















 “To tell a story by creating things.”  






























My personal keywords to design are: poetic, timeless, functional.

I'm Jinying Cheng, an industrial designer graduated from Advanced Product Design, Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden. I'm passionate about creating things that are both timeless functional and beautiful. My process typically starts with rough ideas, evolves through sketching, and develops further through digital modeling - it's a fluid, iterative approach that feels like shaping clay into its final form. What drives me most is the story behind each design and how it solves real problems. My interests in renewable energy, automation, and environmental stewardship converge on a key question: how do we balance technological progress with natural and cultural well-being?

Always glad to connect - feel free to reach out!
(picture on the right - me doing cloud walking)




Brand ProjectYear
EPIROC DUNN / underground mining in 20352025
GETINGE
STEA - 35 / next generation sepsis treatment solution2024

SELF-INITIATED
TRITON / renewable energy for cargo ships2024

FLIR
FLIR Pure / monitoring and cleaning device for inhouse users2023

SELF-INITIATED Nobel prize perfume concept
2023

SELF-INITIATED Fragrance holder concept
2023

CREONE
Internship project in Propeller Design
2023

SWEDISH POLIS
RAYET / next generation deployable warning sign2022

ELECTROLUX
HumiTex / indoor humidifier 2022

SELF-INITIATED PICO / ping-pong table
2021

KESSEBÖHMER AGENTline
Internship project in CIRC Industrial Design 2021

VIID
Bachelor thesis project 2020

FLIR Pure (animation) 3D animation for storytelling course in Umeå Institute of Design 2024
FLIR Pure (animation)
Concept video2024

HumiTex   (animation)
Concept video2022


It always begins or starts with that moment.

I haven’t wrote things for a long time. When my parents were still healthy, I wrote poems, and I drew.

Then my dad was sick, very badly. Then my mom.

Then I feel there’s nothing in me anymore. 

I have deep sorrow rages everyday. I believe there are certain people like me, in this world who are also hating about the unfairness. “why me? why my family?” I guess there are someone that are much worse than my case. But I won’t tell.

For almost 90%of my life time, I spend it all alone. People dislike me, and I don’t recognize I’m part of them. In order to remain relevant to this world, I started to care about big things. Like spacecraft, world environment, etc. Do I really care? Not at all.


I just need to grab something to proof that I’m still relevant to this world. I am alone all by myself, but if I’m not here, also doesn’t matter too much. There’s no one in this world - really loves me.

“It’s too painful.”

Yes, indeed. I replid. 

This is what technology is bringing to us. It weakened our ability to feel, to laugh and to cry, to be emotional. But my brain has been washed into a senseless machine - always fills with trash. When I have spare time, I’m not gonna love this world, but instead - I scrolled on my phone to view trash news that are irrelevant to me at all.

“Love hurts too much.”


If you wanna ask me - am i still doing design? I want to tell you - doing design is good, but it includes too many parts that most of the designers in this world - they forget about why we design. most of them care about “just Form” very much.

Why? For whom, for what reason? 

During the second time of pandemic lockdown, I was working in Shanghai. And all of a sudden - everything started to close. Hospital is hard to get in unless you have the green code to prove that you are healthy. Old people who lived on there own - if not properly cared for - there’s huge risk to die alone at home which - many similar cases had occured. Under that condition, Love is not something people talk about anymore. 

I discovered that - people have the need to excerise even during that special time period.




My Childhood