Apple and Design Miami Launch Initiative for Emerging Designers

Summary

• Apple and Design Miami have launched an initiative for emerging designers
• The winners of the inaugural “Designers of Tomorrow” have been announced in Paris as Atelier Duyi Han, Jolie Ngo, Marie & Alexandre, and Marco Campardo.

Apple and Design Miami have come together to launch a new initiative celebrating four emerging design talents.

At an exhibition at Design Miami.Paris taking place this week, the four winners were revealed as Atelier Duyi Han (Shanghai), Jolie Ngo (Santa Barbara), Marie & Alexandre (Paris), and Marco Campardo (London).

Each was selected by an all-star industry jury made up of Apple’s Design Studio leaders, Alan Dye, VP of Human Interface Design, and Molly Anderson, VP of Industrial Design, along with Aric Chen, Faye Toogood, Hervé Lemoine, Jen Roberts, Lyne Cohen-Solal, Mathieu Lehanneur, Sabine Marcelis, Samuel Ross, and Rodman Primack.

Powered by the iPad, the project spotlights how technology is seamlessly integrated into the creative process, empowering a new wave of innovation. Tied in with the focus, each has presented new or iconic work, while also demonstrating the iPad’s role from their initial research to final fabrication

Elodie Croquet

Parisian duo Marie & Alexandre are presenting the ‘CR Boxes System’, a series of modular, thermoformed glass objects that can stack and transform, a result of their residency at Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation. They used iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Pro to “intuitively draw, annotate, and collage directly on photos of prototypes”.

Marco Campardo, meanwhile, debuts an extension of his ‘Jello’ series, with a coffee table inspired by the delicate textures of butter packaging. He sculpts digitally with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Pro, exploring volume before technical modeling.

Jolie Ngo is showing her exploration into the intersection of craft and emerging tech with pieces like the ‘Lantern Vessel in Between Worlds’, which reimagines Vietnamese silk lanterns through clay 3D printing. She uses the iPad for quick sketching and sculpting of surreal, asymmetric forms before refining them on a MacBook Pro.

Finally, Duyi Han presents ‘Noetrigram v0.9’, a dual-surface mirror that blends anatomical diagrams, occult manuscripts, and AI-generated phrases for psychological suggestion, with the iPad being “paramount to his creative workflow, bridging concept to production”.

The exhibition, curated by Rodman Primack, a juror for the initiative, is on view at Design Miami.Paris from October 22 to 26.