The portfolio that supported my application to the Design Products MA at the Royal College of Art: eight objects and systems built around people, context and practical care.
Design Products MA
Objects made from real needs.
This portfolio brings together years of making: lamps, furniture, emergency manufacturing, off-grid systems and small domestic interventions. It helped shape my application to the RCA, where I will continue exploring technology and design as tools for human, useful and generous work.
Featured image selected from Papa’s Lamp: a warm product detail that reads clearly as design work instead of a presentation screenshot.
Portfolio overview
Eight projects, one design lens.
Selected work
From product details to systems.
Tondo Lamp
A three-meter ceiling lamp made of bamboo, paper and LED tubes for an art studio.
Joseph’s Cradle
A handcrafted wooden cradle designed as a durable family object.
Maria’s Case
A portable leather studio for watercolors, brushes and sketchbook.
Papa’s Lamp
A sculptural wooden lamp built around material rhythm, warmth and light.
Material Coronavirus
An emergency PPE manufacturing network built during COVID-19.
Solar Lamps
Off-grid solar lamps for families in Leyte, Philippines, after an earthquake.
Rubble Lamps
Lighting objects made from recovered fragments and found material.
Nan’s Ramp
A portable wheelchair ramp built in one afternoon for my grandmother.