Apple and Design Miami Debut the Designers of Tomorrow Initiative

At ​​this year’s Design Miami Paris, running October 22-26 within L’hôtel de Maisons, the prestigious platform will unveil a collaborative initiative with Apple titled Designers of Tomorrow. The inaugural presentation is set to honor four designers: Shanghai-based Atelier Duyi Han, Vietnamese-American designer Jolie Ngo, Parisian design studio Marie et Alexandre (founded by Marie Cornil and Alexandre Willaume), and London-based Italian designer Marco Campardo. Though all honorees utilize iPads in their creative processes, their bodies of work represent a diverse selection of styles and mediums.

All designers created work specifically for the exhibition—from Han’s Noetrigram v0.9 mirror to Ngo’s Lantern Vessel in Between Worlds, inspired by Vietnamese silk lanterns, and her Table Lamp in Cherry Blossoms and Himalayan Salt. Marie et Alexandre manipulated glass into modular objects, and Campardo crafted a coffee table, which he designed to look like a block of butter.

Apple and Design Miami assembled a superlative panel of jurors—including presentation curator Rodman Primack of Ago Projects, Aric Chen, Faye Toogood, Hervé Lemoine, Mathieu Lehanneur, Sabine Marcelis, Samuel Ross, as well as Apple’s own Alan Dye and Molly Anderson, and Design Miami CEO Jen Roberts. Ultimately, the experts selected talent not only capable of demonstrating the way technology supports creativity, but four practices informed by curiosity and wonder.