Product Design · Design for Licensing
A line of collectible display furniture: modular, LED-lit acrylic cubes that snap together on a wall or a surface to turn a collection of plushies, figures, and keepsakes into a glowing, ever-changeable display.
Collectors pour personality into what they own, but most of it ends up crammed on a shelf or hidden in a box. Cubos is a system of clear acrylic display cubes in four sizes that mount on a wall or stack on a surface. Each cube is lit from its base, and a one-way mirror finish creates an infinity-mirror glow that frames whatever is inside. Because the modules are interchangeable, the layout is never finished. It grows and rearranges with the collection.
Cubes come in small, medium, large, and large-flat sizes that interlock, so any layout can be built, expanded, or reshuffled.
Each base houses its own LED strip, soldered in a pattern that lights every edge of the acrylic so the whole structure glows.
One-way mirror film and mirrored inserts turn each cube into a depth illusion that makes the contents float.
The same modules mount vertically as art or sit horizontally as a tabletop display, so they fit any space.
We started broad with coffee tables, desks, and lamps before landing on a modular cube system. Cardboard mockups tested how the modules would interlock, and clear acrylic medium-fidelity models proved out the proportions and the stud-and-base connection.
We hand-fabricated the final system: bonding acrylic cubes with solvent, building base panels with channels routed for wiring, spray-painting the bases so light escapes only through the studs, and 3D-printing insert pieces to adapt the bases to each cube size.
Smooth acrylic on smooth acrylic slid around. We tested balloons over the studs, spray-painted friction surfaces, and electrical tape before landing on a hold that felt secure but still let cubes lift off freely.
A single light source left dark edges, so we gave every stud its own strip and soldered them in a pattern that pushes light through all four sides of each cube for a uniform glow.
Because the brief was designing a product for licensing, we took it through to packaging: a reverse tuck-end box with die-cut styrofoam inserts that cradle each cube and base, plus protective film over the mirrored surfaces, branded and ready for a shelf.
Cubos went from open-ended sketches to a working, hand-fabricated, retail-ready product: acrylic cubes, custom-wired lighting, an infinity-mirror finish, and packaging to match. It is the kind of end-to-end build where I get to own both the idea and the craft of making it real.
My role: I owned the lighting design and soldering and led material sourcing, and contributed to the bill of materials and tech pack that made Cubos a manufacturable, licensable product.