Kuniko Maeda is a Japanese designer and artist based in London, who works mainly with paper and leather to create handmade jewellery, artworks, and installations for public and private space. She combines digital technology with hand craft techniques to produce unique and modern items of jewellery, which are inspired by natural, organic forms. Her jewellery is an extension of her sculptural artworks.By exploring the possibility of materials and their unique properties, she allows the materials to speak and embrace natural formed abstraction.