Biomorphic Lighting
Material-Led Lighting Inspired by Living Systems
Biomorphic Lighting draws from the living logic of the amoeba—a shape-shifting organism defined by its constant morphogenesis. Just as amoebas are never fixed, always flowing, molten glass resists stillness until cooled. Each lamp is a frozen moment of transformation, where breath, gravity, and heat converge into luminous form.
Mimicking Amoeba
Biomorphic Lighting mimics the shape-shifting life of the amoeba. Its forms resist fixed geometry, flowing instead with the same logic of expansion, contraction, and adaptation.
Like the organism it references, the lamps evolve through chance and force. Introducing Nacre & Ondra
Concept Sketch
Nacre mimics the shape-shifting life of the amoeba. Its forms resist fixed geometry, flowing instead with the logic of expansion, contraction, and adaptation. Like living membranes, the lamps evolve through chance and force.
Process Highlights
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Component studies abstracting slug (movement, tactility) and egg (form, structure)
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Iterative foam and digital modeling to refine ergonomics and proportion
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Material exploration of soft upholstery and rigid shell contrasts
Ideation Nacre
The seating surface of The Egg & The Slug is shaped through a process that combines tactile softness with sculptural presence.
The slug-inspired base is upholstered to evoke organic motion, supple yet resilient, while the egg backrest is cast in fiberglass or acrylic,
its smooth finish amplifying contrast and calm.
Materials:
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Upholstered base with gel inserts and memory foam
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Fiberglass or cast acrylic egg backrest, matte or satin finish
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Powder-coated steel or aluminum armature, non-slip feet
Biomorphic Lighting captures the quiet flux of living matter, turning molten glass into luminous organisms that breathe nature’s rhythms into human space.
Nacre
Concept Sketch Ondra
Ondra mimics the tidal logic of waves, folding, overlapping, and curling in continuous motion. Each lamp appears as if caught mid-undulation, a luminous wave suspended in glass.
Process Highlights
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Component studies abstracting slug (movement, tactility) and egg (form, structure)
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Iterative foam and digital modeling to refine ergonomics and proportion
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Material exploration of soft upholstery and rigid shell contrasts
Ideation Ondra Series
Early studies explore how wave-like ribbons of glass can wrap around a luminous core. The sketches abstract the crest and trough of a tide, capturing fluid translucencies as they fold and overlap. Each variation experiments with how movement can be suspended in solid glass, balancing flow and structure.
Materials:
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Molded Hand Blown Glass
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Name Origin: From ondas (Spanish/Portuguese for waves), evoking the rhythmic undulation of water and light.
Ondra is a study in overlooked ecologies where movement and stillness converge through the quiet logic of living systems. It invites us to dwell within elemental forms, to see fragility not as weakness, but as structure; and resilience not as excess, but as design.