With Soft Touch, the Berlin design studio JÜNGERKÜHN presents an advanced form of digital craft in which digital tools and ceramic material enter into a genuine dialogue. The starting point is a specially developed machine that follows programmed movement sequences and at the same time reacts to the characteristics of the still soft porcelain. This interplay creates a surface aesthetic that combines mechanical precision with situational, material-driven traces.

The colourfully layered porcelain bodies are cast, engobed and then worked in a subtractive process that exposes the layers and turns each object into an individual variation. Soft Touch shows ceramics that are neither purely handcrafted nor purely digital – but both at the same time: a contemporary form of design that emphasises openness, processuality and the vitality of the material.