Phil Frank

Credentials: Industrial Design, San Jose State University; Nike, Inc.; former VP of Design, Saleen, Inc.
Based: California, United States
Discipline: Automotive Design, Industrial Design, Product Design

Website: https://phil-frank.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philfrankdesign/
CV Northwest interview (2012): https://soec.org/cv-northwest-phil-frank-interview/

Saleen S7

Nike ONE 2022 Launch Edition

Nike D-Line Watches

Steinway & Sons 160 Year Anniversary Tribute Piano

webAI TwIL-LM

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/webAI-Official/TwIL-LM, https://huggingface.co/webAI-Official/TwIL-LM3
Website: https://www.webai.com/blog/webai-releases-twil-lm-a-family-of-formal-logic-models-that-outreason-a-120b-model-and-run-on-an-iphone

Developer: webAI Intelligence Lab
Released: August 2026
Variants: TwIL-LM 1.7B, TwIL-LM3 3B
Parameters: 1.7B: 1.78B total, 1.71B backbone + 72M LoRA / 3B: 3B
Context: 1.7B: 8,192 tokens / 3B: 65,536 tokens
Architecture: 1.7B: SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct base, dense Llama, 24 layers, 32 heads, LoRA rank 64 SFT / 3B: SmolLM3-3B base, dense, 36 layers, GQA 16Q/4KV, NoPE every 4th layer; LoRA SFT, checkpoint fusion, WiSE-FT interpolation, GRPO reinforcement learning
License: webAI Non-Commercial License ver. 1.0
Modalities: Text
Runs on: 1.7B: Smartphone, Laptop / 3B: Laptop, 4GB VRAM or CPU
Formats: 1.7B: merged GGUF Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q8_0, f16 / 3B: safetensors, GGUF Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0, F16
On disk: 1.7B: 1.06GB Q4_K_M / 3B: 1.92GB Q4_K_M

Isay Weinfeld

Credentials: School of Architecture, Mackenzie University (São Paulo)
From: São Paulo, Brazil
Based: São Paulo, Brazil
Discipline: Architecture, Furniture

Isay Weinfeld: https://www.isayweinfeld.com/

Sideboard (2006)

Lounge Chair (2006)

Simo Heikkilä

Credentials: Interior architect, SIO (Finnish Association of interior architects); Diploma in Interior Architecture, Ateneum School of Applied Arts (1967); former professor of furniture design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki
From: Jyväskylä, Finland
Based: Korpilahti, Finland
Discipline: Furniture, Architecture

Website: https://www.periferiadesign.fi/simo-heikkila/
Periferia Design: https://www.periferiadesign.fi/

May, chair for Nikari, 2013

Adam, chair together with Yrjö Wiherheimo, 1997

vcad

Type: b-Rep based
Website: https://vcad.io
GitHub: https://github.com/ecto/vcad

Created: 2026
License: Apache 2.0
Language: Rust
Formats: STEP, STL, GLB, DXF
Bindings: WASM

Megathread covering Central American object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design. Central America includes: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Mexico

Format should follow

Name

Credentials:
From:
Based:
Discipline:

Website:
Instagram:
X:
Other Links:

At least 1 image

Megathread covering physical robotics across manufacturing arms, humanoids, and other machines to assist with object design and engineering

Toshiya Hayashi

Credentials: Hitotsubashi University
From: Toyama Prefecture, Japan
Based: Tokyo, Japan
Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture

we+: https://weplus.jp
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toshiya__hayashi/

Unseen Objects / Overflow

In-Between Matter

Paolo Rizzatto

Credentials: Laurea in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano (1965)
From: Milan, Italy
Based: Milan, Italy
Discipline: Lighting, Industrial Design

Website: https://paolorizzatto.it
Luceplan: https://www.luceplan.com

Titania

Lola

Germane Barnes is an American architect and director of Studio Barnes by way of the West Side of Chicago, IL and based in Miami, FL.

Studio Barnes has been featured in international venues and publications most notably, The Art Institute of Chicago, Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art NY, SF MoMA, MAS Context, The Graham Foundation, The New York Times, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, Metropolis Magazine, Domus, LACMA, Denver Art Museum and The National Museum of African American History where he was identified as one of the future designers on the rise.

Website: germanebarnes.com
Instagram: @germane.barnes
University profile: University of Miami
Vimeo search: Germane Barnes lectures
YouTube search: Germane Barnes videos

Joy Riding in Columbus, IL USA

Griot in Venice, Italy

A Spectrum of Blackness in Chicago, IL USA

Protolabs

Protolabs is a digital manufacturing service for custom prototypes and low-volume production parts.

Formats: STEP, IGES, SolidWorks (.sldprt), STL (3D printing)
Materials: Metals, plastics, elastomers, liquid silicone rubber
Processes: CNC machining (milling, turning), injection molding, sheet metal fabrication, 3D printing (SLA, SLS, MJF, DMLS, PolyJet, HPS)
Lead time: As fast as 1 day

Website: https://www.protolabs.com/

Era

Website: era.world
Founders: Liz Durman, Alex Ollman, and Megan Gole

AI gadget platform. Started with a AI enabled gadget dev kit for designers allowing them to add intelligence to everyday objects. Called it Primavera: https://primavera.era.world/

Bonsai 1 Bit

Announcement: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-8b
Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-mlx-1bit

Bonsai 1 Bit is a 1 bit language model that comes in 8B, 4B, and 1.7B parameter sizes. The 8B model is 1/16 the size of comparable 16 bit 8B open models with similar performance. At 1.15gb, this model can fit on many kinds of devices with 4-5x better energy efficiency

Karim Rashid is an Egyptian-Canadian industrial designer, born in Cairo in 1960, raised in Canada, and based in New York since 1993. He is one of the most prolific designers of his generation, with over 4,000 designs in production, from the Garbo waste can for Umbra and the bobble water bottle to furniture, lighting, and hotel interiors. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and SFMOMA.

Website: karimrashid.com
Instagram: @karim_rashid_official
X/Twitter: @karim_design
Facebook: karimrashiddesign

Text-to-CAD from Jake Fitzgerald

A collection of agent skills for CAD, robotics and hardware design

Website: https://www.cadskills.xyz/
GitHub: https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad/blob/main/skills/cad/SKILL.md
X: https://x.com/earthtojake

Formats: STEP, DXF
Kernel: OpenCASCADE (build123d based)

Jake is a software engineer at South Park Commons.