Proof, not promises.

Ambionic soft grippers

Testing a soft robotic hand on a real arm, then engineering Kripper — a gripper cut from a single kirigami shell that wraps around a tomato instead of squeezing it.

• Soft robotics
• Food automation
• Mechatronics

Vaib

The first AI lighting design platform — it learns the actual rig in the room and lights the show live.

AI lighting design platform

1st AI lighting design platform

Fixture profiles, 214 makers

2,263 Fixture profiles, 214 makers

Lights on one screen

76 Lights on one screen

• AI
• Live events
• Lighting design

FishView

A transparent dome that holds a column of pond water above the surface, so koi swim up into it and can be seen from every side.

• Product engineering
• Design for manufacture
• 3D printing

CityGems

Light modules that clamp onto the lampposts, railings and fences a city already has, and turn a route into a timed run.

Bounding cube per module

40 cm Bounding cube per module

LED matrix behind each face

32×16 LED matrix behind each face

Groundwork, foundations or new poles

0 Groundwork, foundations or new poles

• Public installation
• IoT
• Product design

Joburi Studenți

Our own job community for students and young graduates in Romania — a website and groups with more than 50,000 active members — now on a platform we rebuilt, with AI that helps people write and never judges them.

Active members across the site and its groups

50,000+ Active members across the site and its groups

Spam pages on the old site, retired with a 410

86,000 Spam pages on the old site, retired with a 410

Languages, with translated URLs in both

2 Languages, with translated URLs in both

• Community
• Job board
• Applied AI

Find a Lamp

An AI lamp finder — photograph your room, get lighting advice and a shortlist from 21,000 lamps, then render the one you like into the photo before you buy.

Lamps in the catalogue

21,850+ Lamps in the catalogue

AI features in production

3 AI features in production

Person, concept to launch

1 Person, concept to launch

• AI
• Product
• Computer vision

The Orb

Rebuilding a centrepiece escape-room prop so it survives thousands of players a year — including a part 3D-printed in stainless steel.

• Props and experiences
• Metal 3D printing
• Reliability

Cubcho

A hand-cranked press that turns waste paper into building blocks — no batteries, no plastic, no screen.

• Consumer product
• Sustainability
• Montessori

Simple Sockets

A modular light fitting — one universal base, a cover in any shape and colour that twists on, and any bulb — so a lamp, a wall light or a pendant cluster costs a fraction of a designer fitting.

Cover shapes on one base

8 Cover shapes on one base

Ways to mount it: table, wall, ceiling, pendant

4 Ways to mount it: table, wall, ceiling, pendant

Combinations of shape, colour, bulb and mounting

∞ Combinations of shape, colour, bulb and mounting

• Product system
• Lighting
• 3D printing

Lifebag

A 72-hour emergency kit built to Dutch government guidance — and the first that is genuinely modular, so a household scales up without buying everything twice.

• Product line
• E-commerce
• Emergency preparedness

CHIME

A kinetic glass sculpture that sings and sometimes shatters, driven by sound below the range you can hear.

• Kinetic sculpture
• Custom PCB
• Resonance

Light for live music

Lighting design and operation for concerts, theatre, club nights and festivals since 2022 — from a 15th-century church in Rotterdam to a touring orchestra — and the field work behind Vaib, our AI lighting designer.

Our first season of live shows

2022 Our first season of live shows

Performances lit at the 2TO2 festival alone

20+ Performances lit at the 2TO2 festival alone

Musicians on stage for the Elvis tour

37 Musicians on stage for the Elvis tour

• Stage lighting
• Live events
• Pre-visualisation

The Lamps

The studio started as a lamp company — a dozen products taken from sketch to shelf, which is where the manufacturing knowledge came from.

Products designed and made

12+ Products designed and made

International design fairs

2 International design fairs

• Product design
• Manufacturing
• Lighting

Wake-Up Lamp

Three years of research into replicating sunlight indoors, so that waking up in a dark Dutch winter feels like waking up.

Of continuous research

3 years Of continuous research

Thesis projects supervised

2 Thesis projects supervised

• Applied research
• Light quality
• Human factors

Smart Objects with THUAS

The client for design students at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in 2022, 2024 and 2025 — interactive installations for public space, a project for Remastered, the immersive art venue under the Erasmus Bridge, a sun lamp — and THUAS interns in the studio.

Years as the client: 2022, 2024 and 2025

3 Years as the client: 2022, 2024 and 2025

Material budget in the 2022 brief, for up to 30 units

€5,000 Material budget in the 2022 brief, for up to 30 units

• Education
• Interactive installations
• Prototyping

JG Ligatures

Working out how to actually manufacture 3D-printed saxophone ligatures, in enough colours and fits to sell as a range.

• Design for manufacture
• 3D printing
• Musical instruments

The Sun installation

A kinetic installation that follows the real sun across the sky — a glowing 80 cm sphere travelling a 16-metre arch from sunrise to sunset, planned for the glass dome of BlueCity in Rotterdam.

Glowing sphere

80 cm Glowing sphere

Arch it travels, sunrise to sunset

16 m Arch it travels, sunrise to sunset

Scale of the motion prototype

1:10 Scale of the motion prototype

• Kinetic installation
• Light
• Public space

Many and the Same

A built game about whether we can actually listen to one another, rather than assume — designed, fabricated and played with real groups.

• Experience design
• Fabrication
• Social design

Form Follows Frequency

Control electronics and amplification for a range of high-end horn-loaded speaker systems, including three-phase power.

• Audio electronics
• Amplification
• Power systems

The Reaction Panel

The bench rig where the light-and-movement interaction gets designed, before any of it goes outdoors — and which turned into a product of its own.

• Prototyping
• Interaction design
• Sensors

Trippi glasses

Glasses that turn every light into a rainbow — found by accident in a broken phone screen, then taken through 20 prototypes into a product, a custom edition for a band at North Sea Jazz, and an interactive display.

Prototypes to the final fit

20 Prototypes to the final fit

Dropped onto concrete, undamaged

>2 m Dropped onto concrete, undamaged

• Wearable
• 3D printing
• Optics

Axoctrl cases

Designing and 3D-printing the cases for Hohum Lab's first commercial product, a DIY synth controller — fifty-plus finished units, not one prototype.

Cases printed for the launch

50+ Cases printed for the launch

• Small-batch manufacturing
• 3D printing
• Enclosures

Music Production Academy

Bringing a music school's building back to life on a budget close to zero — an anamorphic logo, cube lamps for high ceilings, and LED lines that tell students which classrooms are free.

• Interior
• Lighting
• Signage