Seiki Ishii

Credentials: Lahti University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Stanford ME310, Kyoto Institute of Technology (Master’s Program of Design Science)
From: Kyoto, Japan
Based: Kyoto, Japan
Discipline: Lighting, Industrial Design

SEIKI DESIGN STUDIO: https://ishiiseiki.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/seikidesignstudio/

Bell

BBQ & Co Grill

Chikaku

Neri Oxman

Credentials: PhD in Design Computation, MIT; diploma in architecture, Architectural Association; architecture studies, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
From: Haifa, Israel
Based: New York, New York, USA
Discipline: Industrial Design, Architecture

Website: https://www.media.mit.edu/people/neri/overview/
Studio/Company: https://www.oxman.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nerioxmanreal/
X: https://x.com/NeriOxman
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NeriOxmanArt/
OXMAN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oxmanofficial/
OXMAN YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA9MwbHMrutAzyLBYhs9KQ
OXMAN LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxman/

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Smile Plastics

Smile Plastics is Smile Materials’ collection of recycled plastic panels in named PET, HIPS, and HDPE designs.

Website: https://smile-materials.com/material-brand/smile-plastics/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smile.materials/

Maker: Smile Materials Ltd
Composition: 100% recycled and recyclable plastic from a mix of pre- and post-consumer waste, including yoghurt pots and white goods; panels are sorted into PET, HIPS, or HDPE types, but a panel is not guaranteed to contain only one type.
Process: Recycled plastic is hand-selected, hand-arranged, and pressed into panels at the Wales factory; panels leave the press complete and can be CNC-routed or hand-finished.
Properties: Indicative data sheets list densities of 1.28 g/cm³ for rPET, 1.06 g/cm³ for rHIPS, and 0.95 g/cm³ for rHDPE; fabrication guidance gives about 2 mm per metre of thermal expansion over a 10°C change and rapid rigidity loss above 85°C for unsupported sheets.
Applications: Smile Plastics x ACAD Ocean Modular Seating installation (2021, reimagined 2022); Jean Paul Brkovic Heron UTO series low chair, coffee table, and stacking benches (2024); Ocean More Than Just a Bench public bench (2025); GOODSHEET Orca Statement Bench (2025)
Made in: Swansea, Wales, UK
Availability: Samples and Inquiries

Sharpa Wave

Five-finger dexterous robotic hand

Website: https://www.sharpa.com/pages/wave
Announcement: https://www.sharpa.com/blogs/news/ai-robotmaker-sharpa-reaches-key-milestone-of-mass-production

Maker: Sharpa
Origin: Singapore
Released: December 2025
Degrees of freedom: 22 active
Payload: 40 kg per hand
Dimensions: 208 × 90 × 50 mm
Connection: Gigabit Ethernet, updates 500 times per second

Raven from Moritz Rietschel, Philipp Hölzenbein, and Maximilian Rietschel

An agent inside Rhino 8 that turns a text prompt or a reference image into native, editable Grasshopper definitions.

Website: https://raven.build/
X: https://x.com/ravencad
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ravencad/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RavenCAD
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nXbkvwXwBh

Formats: 3DM, STEP, IGES, DWG, DXF, OBJ, STL, 3MF, SVG, PDF
Kernel: openNURBS (Grasshopper definitions based)

Moritz, Philipp, and Maximilian are the co-founders of Raven.

Charles O. Job

Credentials: Diploma in architecture and master’s in urban design, Oxford Brookes University; professor of architectural design theory, Bern University of Applied Sciences (2008–2026); former research associate, ETH Zurich; RIBA
From: Lagos, Nigeria
Based: Zurich, Switzerland
Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture, Lighting, Architecture

Website: https://www.charlesjob.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charles.o.job/

SKETCH armchair (prototype, 2020)

Flip Desk for Vij5, 2022

pablo shelving unit for Tossa

Flex Ply Pavilion, Design Preis Schweiz nominee, 2013

TUM Tadpole

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/thuerey-group/Tadpole
GitHub: https://github.com/tum-pbs/Tadpole
Website: https://ge.in.tum.de/2026/05/18/tadpole-flexible-scientific-foundation-models/
Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15284

Developer: Thuerey Group, Technical University of Munich
Released: May 2026
Variants: S, B, L; only B weights released
Parameters: S: 8.8M / B: 38.1M / L: 152.1M
Resolution: pre-trained at 64, 128, 256 and 384 cubed, evaluated to 1024 cubed
Architecture: 3D PDE autoencoder pre-trained on single-channel 64x64x64 crops, P3D hybrid backbone with convolutional stages and a transformer bottleneck, adversarial reconstruction loss; latent compression 16 (S) / 8 (B) / 4 (L); Tadpole-DFT adds LoRA, a latent dynamics sub-network, and zero-initialized skip connections for rollout
License: Apache 2.0
Modalities: 3D PDE fields in, 3D PDE fields out
Runs on: Autoencoding: Laptop / Dynamics: Desktop GPU, NVIDIA only
Formats: safetensors, separate encoder and decoder
On disk: B: 60.4MB encoder, 92.6MB decoder

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

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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