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Luminaries

Design

Photography, architecture, design and creative culture.

©Sean Gibson
Design

The Chandelier Reimagined as Sculpture

Martin Döller’s modular bronze lighting explores the space between functional object and sculptural form.

©TECNO
Design

The Phone Reimagined: TECNO Modular Phone

TECNO Modular Phone asks a timely question: what might change if a familiar personal device were designed around modularity?

©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.

©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.

©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.

©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.

©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.

©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.

©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.

©Si Zheng
Design

A Decade of Rain: Making Time Visible

In A Decade of Rain, communication design becomes a way to think about memory, duration, and the stories that images and words can carry.