Michal Evyatar
Product Design
Emerging Designer Award
“The combination of food and industrial design comes naturally in my daily practice. The kitchen and studio exist in synchronization - form influences taste, taste influences form and technique, and so the cycle continues until form, taste, technique, and space integrate into a harmonious creation”
Michal Evyatar is a multidisciplinary designer working at the crossroads of body, material, and environment, creating multisensory design experiences in which the viewer is not merely an observer but an active participant - both physically and emotionally. Evyatar, who holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in design from Bezalel, approaches the design process as the creation of a whole -tangible and real as well as conceptual, cultural, and poetic. Each new project represents for her a space of research, listening, and an examination of the relationships between time, place, and material.
The jury panel’s decision:
The Edmond de Rothschild Design Award is granted to Michal Evyatar for her fascinating work in the spectrum between culinary and ritual, experience, spatial, and object design.
In her experiments, Michal Evyatar is forging a new path for others to follow, defining a territory of possibilities for what designers can do, produce, ask and offer. Evyatar’s work, both individually and as part of a collective, creates fertile encounters between culture, material, and practice. Through the experiences and spaces Evyatar creates, food and eating rituals become a central design medium. She explores sensory inputs, cultural meaning, and human interaction through edible materials and performative settings.
Her work expands the boundaries of industrial design, introducing a poetic, multi-sensory, and culturally insightful perspective. In her work with Carmel Bar as Studio Mela, she develops interfaces with diverse communities and connects audiences to unfamiliar spaces through experience and food. Evyatar offers an entirely original voice — subtle, thoughtful, and deeply innovative. For this, Michal Evyatar is awarded the 2025 Edmond de Rothschild Award for Product Design in the Emerging Designer category.
Michal Evyatar is a multidisciplinary designer working at the crossroads of body, material, and environment, creating multisensory design experiences in which the viewer is not merely an observer but an active participant - both physically and emotionally. Evyatar, who holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in design from Bezalel, approaches the design process as the creation of a whole -tangible and real as well as conceptual, cultural, and poetic. Each new project represents for her a space of research, listening, and an examination of the relationships between time, place, and material.
The jury panel’s decision:
The Edmond de Rothschild Design Award is granted to Michal Evyatar for her fascinating work in the spectrum between culinary and ritual, experience, spatial, and object design.
In her experiments, Michal Evyatar is forging a new path for others to follow, defining a territory of possibilities for what designers can do, produce, ask and offer. Evyatar’s work, both individually and as part of a collective, creates fertile encounters between culture, material, and practice. Through the experiences and spaces Evyatar creates, food and eating rituals become a central design medium. She explores sensory inputs, cultural meaning, and human interaction through edible materials and performative settings.
Her work expands the boundaries of industrial design, introducing a poetic, multi-sensory, and culturally insightful perspective. In her work with Carmel Bar as Studio Mela, she develops interfaces with diverse communities and connects audiences to unfamiliar spaces through experience and food. Evyatar offers an entirely original voice — subtle, thoughtful, and deeply innovative. For this, Michal Evyatar is awarded the 2025 Edmond de Rothschild Award for Product Design in the Emerging Designer category.