Product Design
SKLDesign and development of physical products, from everyday objects to innovative solutions addressing user needs.
Balco: Modular Architecture Reimagines the Future Balcony Through Origami-Inspired Design
Balco transforms the balcony through modular architecture, origami-inspired flexibility, adaptable shading, privacy, and urban living.
Emergence: A Segmented Ring Habitat for Asteroid Miners Between Mars and the Belt
A shortlisted LEAP entry imagines a rotating chain of modules that grows, separates and reconnects as a deep-space mining community evolves.
Urban Nomads: A Reusable Steel Prototype That Turns Construction Site Jugaad into Dignified Worker Housing
A modular, stackable steel shelter for Mumbai's migrant builders that absorbs workers' own improvisations into a dignified, reusable housing system.
MORPHLUID: A Solar-Responsive Envelope That Shades and Breathes Through Liquid-Filled Panels
Sandesh's MORPHLUID uses sun-heated liquid chambers to morph panels, turning an envelope module into both a shading device and a ventilation system.
HILT: A Toothbrush Split Into the Part That Lasts and the Part That Wears Out
Joe Miller's HILT pairs a permanent handle in bamboo, titanium or recycled plastic with minimal-plastic heads that users send back for recycling.
Corolla & Stamen: Floral Anatomy Recast as Bent-Steel Seating and Light
A lounge chair and floor lamp that borrow structure, not ornament, from a flower: slender bent steel, a suspended seat, and light split by twin shades.
Jugnoo (Firefly): A Bamboo Wall Light You Dim by Folding It
A wire-free bamboo sconce by Sashi Malik where three hinged segments open and close as one, turning the act of dimming into a gesture of touch.
Stacked Coffee Table: Three Plywood Layers Composed Like a Loose Pile of Playing Cards
Maple, oak and walnut plywood layers, offset like scattered cards, give a flat-pack coffee table six colour orders and a quietly sculptural presence.
Eazyfit: A Bamboo and Steel Grid That Scales from Shelving to Shelter
Ankur Gupta's kit turns a 30mm steel cube into a universal joint, letting renters build furniture, walls and roofs, then return parts to a bank.
Dimension: A Two-Module Sofa Bed That Lets Furniture Rewrite the Studio Apartment Floor Plan
A pair of linked sofa modules shifts between chair, bench, bed and corner sofa, treating furniture as the movable architecture of small homes.
Arctic Coffee Table: Bent Steel Straps That Make a Perfectly Still Object Read as a Moving Current
Wai Ho Cheung loops wave-profiled metal strips in opposing phase, letting reflections drift across a static base so the table reads as a current.
