Daniel Elkayam - A Jerusalem born Art-designer and Photographer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Multidisciplinary creator operating in the field of image making and story-telling through objects, specializes in conceptual and experience design, material based research and collectible pieces.

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Alumni of the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), where he graduated in 2024 his master’s in Social Design, Completed at 2019 his Bachelor studies at the Industrial Design department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (IL). A former member of the Bezalel Alumni Design Incubator 2020.

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Inspired by nature and its phenomenons, the artist transforms natural materials and aesthetics into

one-of-a-kind unique objects.

In his works, Daniel implements his curiosity and yearning for unrefined aesthetics, and by material transformation and unique techniques he is developing in his studio, he shows how unattractive materials can be not only valid, but luxurious.

Elkayam examine the range between art and design by taking things in and out of their context, creating hybrids between different worlds of content, intervenes in natural processes, while leaving a gap for the unexpected, the unknown.

He express his inner world and illustrate his ideas by creating objects and experiences. Through his perspective of materiality, and empathetic vision of his 

surroundings, he ​​developed an intuitive way of creation with experimental materials such as algae, corrosion, charcoal and more.

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Every collection of objects expresses different material research and follows curious narratives and a variety of topics such as locality, transience, and decay of materials.

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