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Having studied fashion design in Los Angeles, she spent fifteen years working hands-on in the fashion industry before expanding her expertise into editorial work and event management with the Farmani Group a decade ago. Today, she serves as the editor of Luminaries Magazine, where she focuses her creative vision on discovering and promoting award-winning designers, architects, and artists.

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©MECO; photography by Benjamin Avery
Design

Beyond the Box: MECO Razor Packaging

Benjamin Avery’s MECO Razor Packaging places an everyday product in the spotlight, reminding us that packaging is often the first encounter between a person and a design.

©Emma Sleep
Design

Designing Rest: The Emma Sleep Performance Mattress

The Emma Sleep Performance Mattress brings product design into one of the most personal parts of daily life: sleep.

©S9XY LLC; photography by Sree Krishna Pillarisetti
Design

Soft-pixel: Rethinking the Material Future

Soft-pixel, by Sree Krishna Pillarisetti, opens a conversation about what ecological responsibility can mean in contemporary product design.

©PARTISANS
Design

ALUMINATION: Furniture as a Study in Possibility

ALUMINATION, by Alex Josephson and Ian Pica Limbaseanu, invites us to see furniture as more than an object occupying space.

©Fjaryl AB
Design

MX Surgical: Designing for Moments That Matter

Niklas Andreasen’s MX Surgical places emerging product design in a setting where clarity and responsibility are especially important.

©UNU HIT Hub at Lingnan University; renders/photos by Adrian Lo
Design

Design for the Most Vulnerable: Incuvia

Incuvia, a modular foldable baby incubator concept by Albert Ko and Adrian Lo, places human need at the center of product design.

©Galbot
Design

GALBOT S1: The Changing Face of Product Design

GALBOT S1, designed by Yong Zheng, receives ePDA’s Product Design of the Year distinction and invites a broader discussion of the objects shaping tomorrow.

©Photos by Terrence Zhang
Architecture

The Museum as an Experience

At Hangzhou’s Yohoo Lake, Aedas draws on the language of jade to imagine a new kind of cultural landmark.

©Migle Golubickaite
Art & Culture

The Imperfection of Fashion

Kestutis Lekeckas uses the tailored suit to question what human creativity means in an age of algorithmic precision.

© James Tapscott
Design

Where Light Becomes an Illusion

In Seoul, a ring of steel, water, and mist becomes an encounter with the invisible.