Ivy Ross Credentials: Chief Design Officer for Consumer Devices at Google From: Yonkers, New York, USA Based: Manhattan Beach, California, USA Discipline: Hardware, Industrial Design Website: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/ivy-ross-4146 Google Design: https://design.google/ A Space for Being [image: 830c3a3f-dc6b-41d2-afe8-b4ca1366caba.81843175e48a9129.webp] Ello Creation System [image: 24d9e524f70e34ac693a676aa6ceffa133d197b9-425x434.jpg] Small Wonders [image: b34eb6053c5ea991d18dc49ed1582230129ea3e3-368x384.jpg]

Alberto Ghirardello Credentials: Industrial Design bachelor degree, I.U.A.V. University of Venice, 2007 From: Vicenza, Italy Based: Milan, Italy Discipline: Lighting, Industrial Design Website: https://www.albertoghirardello.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/albertoghirardello/ Cantiere [image: Alberto-Ghirardello_Zava_Cantiere_01.jpg] Minù [image: 1106A.jpg] Bean [image: 1105b.jpg]

Tinna Gunnarsdóttir Credentials: Former Professor and Programme Director of Product Design, Iceland University of the Arts; MRes, University of Brighton (2013–2014); MA in Industrial Design, Domus Academy, Italy (1997); BA in 3D Design, WSCAD, Great Britain (1988–1992) Based: Reykjavík, Iceland Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture, Lighting Website: https://www.tinnagunnarsdottir.is/ Iceland University of the Arts: https://www.lhi.is/en/bjork-saemd-heidurdokknafnbot/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tinna_gunnars/ BÓL Bench [image: TINNA001_1750.jpg] Profile Lamp [image: CF120923_cropped_1750.jpg] OKTÓ [image: OKTO_med_1750.jpg]

Alibaba DAMO RynnBrain 1.1 Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Alibaba-DAMO-Academy/RynnBrain1.1-2B, https://huggingface.co/Alibaba-DAMO-Academy/RynnBrain1.1-9B, https://huggingface.co/Alibaba-DAMO-Academy/RynnBrain1.1-122B-A10B GitHub: https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/RynnBrain Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14979 Developer: Alibaba DAMO Academy Released: July 2026 Variants: 2B, 9B, 122B-A10B Parameters: 9.41B (9B checkpoint) Architecture: Decoder-only vision-language transformer (dense 2B/9B, sparse-MoE 122B-A10B) on a Qwen3.5 base License: Apache License 2.0 Modalities: Image/video + language in / spatial/3D grounding, contact-point and affordance predictions, task planning out Formats: safetensors On disk: 18.82GB (9B checkpoint)

Sandbar Website: https://www.sandbar.com/ Based in: New York City, USA Founders: Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong Stream is their product. It’s a private voice ring with a mic, touchpad, and haptic feedback. [image: 69dccd36d5368aeed54cd91f_1_FULL%20copy.jpg]

General Physics Transformer Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/flwi/Physics-Foundation-Model GitHub: https://github.com/FloWsnr/General-Physics-Transformer Website: https://flowsnr.github.io/blog/physics-foundation-model/ Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13805 Developer: FloWsnr Released: September 2025 Variants: S, M, L, XL Architecture: Transformer-based neural differentiator with numerical integration License: MIT Modalities: Physical fields in, physical fields out; eight fluid, solid, shock, thermal, and multiphase systems Runs on: Desktop GPU, NVIDIA only Formats: PyTorch .pth On disk: S: 32.0MB / M: 446MB / L: 1.54GB / XL: 3.18GB

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 [image: project_bell_01.54a8c0a.png] BBQ & Co Grill [image: project_bbq-co-grill_01.fc405cc.png] Chikaku [image: project_chikaku_05.86dfe8c.png]

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 [image: Smile-Plastics-Material-240-Dark-Blue-2.jpg] [image: DSC3222-scaled-1.jpg]

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 [image: blog-AI_8b470be1-d5c5-41ff-bfac-3a6f56ebaeac.jpg?v=1767701580]

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) [image: SKETCH4_hu_7ef0a27e98bd1b1.jpg] Flip Desk for Vij5, 2022 [image: Vij5-Flip-Desk-by-Charles-O-Job-image-by-Vij5-during-OBJECT-Rotterdam-2022-IMG_2395.jpg] pablo shelving unit for Tossa [image: image.jpg] Flex Ply Pavilion, Design Preis Schweiz nominee, 2013 [image: 2013_FlexPlyPavilion_.jpg]

OpenMOSS MOSS-VL Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-VL-Instruct-0708-FP8, https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-VL-Realtime-FP8 GitHub: https://github.com/OpenMOSS/MOSS-VL Website: https://openmoss.ai/MOSS-VL/ Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07639 Developer: OpenMOSS Team Released: August 2026 Variants: Instruct-0708, Realtime Parameters: 11B Context: 262,144 tokens Architecture: unified cross-attention multimodal model, 48 language layers with 12 cross-attention layers, XRoPE 3D spatiotemporal positions, absolute frame timestamps for streaming video License: Apache 2.0 Modalities: Text + Image + Video Runs on: Desktop GPU; Instruct: 24GB VRAM / Realtime: 26GB+ VRAM; NVIDIA only Formats: FP8 compressed-tensors with BF16 cross-attention and vision, HQQ INT8 KV cache On disk: 15.73GB FP8 safetensors

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) [image: Aparador_02RF.jpg] Lounge Chair (2006) [image: Poltrona_09-RF.jpg]

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

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 [image: 1783720982730-9ab57cc6-6508-4711-a847-4a2e5616cb23-image.jpeg] Griot in Venice, Italy [image: 1783721491986-d7534328-6580-491e-9149-c96799cff5b7-image.jpeg] A Spectrum of Blackness in Chicago, IL USA [image: 1783721609070-d8900c60-cedc-4194-adcc-e78368b751d6-image.jpeg]

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/

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 [image: 3000234665_e1ee05b7a5_b.jpg] [image: 3576000314_37decdaf03_b.jpg] [image: 8859077779_e3884e2b2c_b.jpg] [image: 960px-Sweet_Chill.jpg] [image: 960px-Prizeotel_Bern-City_designed_by_Karim_Rashid_2.jpg] [image: 5775337596_ac94ec9d69_b.jpg]