Today, modern potters are adapting traditional techniques to meet contemporary aesthetic and functional demands. Kuala Lumpur-based Sean Koon Hao Xiang, 23, is largely a self-taught potter.

In its extreme minimalism, the Cybertruck pushes a modern aesthetic trend to its limit, stripping away ornamentation to embrace an “antidesign” ethos. For minimalism’s proponents, this is a statement ...