Luxblade
Luxblade Smart Lamp by Menghai Xia, Siyu Zang and Qijun Nie is a winner of the 2025 Iron A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design.
Luxblade is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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The Luxblade project introduces a cylindrical lightbulb without traditional screw mechanisms, incorporating advanced internal components such as control chips, a battery, and LED panels. Designed to create a tangible interaction with light, it encourages direct user engagement. Both floor and desktop lamps feature three distinct light sources: main lights, foundation domes, and light rings. Touchpads on the blade allow users to adjust light direction and brightness with intuitive gestures.
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Luxblade by Menghai Xia, Siyu Zang and Qijun Nie
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Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award Winner in 2025.
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Luxblade Smart Lamp
Luxblade is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Luxblade is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Luxblade is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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Menghai Xia, Siyu Zang and Qijun Nie
FFBA (Functional Form Block Alliance) is an award-winning design studio co-founded by Menghai Xia and Qijun Nie, dedicated to creating inclusive, human-centered innovations in product, service, and system design. With a mission to connect and empower communities, FFBA blends cultural insight, technological precision, and aesthetic clarity to solve real-world problems. The studio's work has received international acclaim, including numerous design awards, and is known for pushing boundaries while making design accessible, sustainable, and socially impactful.
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Functional Form Flock Allies
The Functional Form Block Allies is a design collective with designers based in Beijing, China; London, UK; and Savannah, Georgia, USA. Comprised of creative professionals collaborating across disciplines, the collective specializes in industrial design, user experience, interaction design, service design, and design education. With a user-centered and systematic approach, they craft functional, well-designed products that balance aesthetics and practicality across sectors such as electronics, medical devices, lighting, lifestyle products and industrial solutions.
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