Award-winning multidisciplinary design lab innovating with emerging technologies.

The Lab

We are a multidisciplinary design lab specialized in experience innovation, digital and physical product design, speculative design, and multimedia art direction. We blend experimental experiences and market-ready ideas to create tangible futures around emerging technology, climate and sustainability, health and wellbeing, and everyday life.

VLab (vee-lab): a vending machine for ideas—dispensing delight on demand. It's where "grab-and-go" becomes "feel-and-remember": a cabinet of curiosities with a coin slot. Part studio, part storefront; part artifact, part experience: VLab lives in the hybrids. Born from our inaugural project, “SpaceV: A Space Vending System for Future Wellbeing in the City,” we’ve grown into a playground for self-service encounters and interactive, multimodal worlds. Today, we vend diverse experiments, create engaging products & experiences, and bring bold projects to life at VLab.

Capabilities
Experience InnovationEmerging technologies
Design strategy
Research and insight
Digital Product DesignConcept development
UX/UI design
Design system
Data visualization
UX prototyping
Full-stack development
Physical Product DesignIndustrial design
Exhibition design
Computational design
Physical prototyping
Spatial design
Data Physicalization
Speculative DesignData storytelling
Indie games
Multisensory experience
Future products
Multimedia Art
Art direction
Immersive experience
Interactive installation
Leadership Team
Tiange Wang
Co-founder

Tiange Wang is a multidisciplinary designer and creative technologist. Her work explores innovative interactive paradigms between humans, technology, and the environment. Tackling subjects like climate change, holistic wellbeing, multisensory experiences, and speculative futures, she utilizes mediums including multimodal interaction, creative data visualization, multimedia art, installation, food, software, artificial intelligence, and games.

She is also a Software Design Lead at IDEO - a leading global innovation company, where she leads the design and prototyping of human-centered, planet-conscious, data-informed, and emerging-tech enabled products for Fortune 500 clients and high-growth ventures.

Her work has received numerous prestigious awards and has been presented at premium venues such as SXSW, SIGGRAPH, CHI, Stanford, Harvard, MIT Museum, NYCxDesign Festival, San Francisco Design Week, Vancouver International Film Festival among others.

Tiange holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with High Honors from the University of California, Berkeley.

I-Yang Huang
Co-founder, Managing Director

I-yang is a multidisciplinary designer working across R&D, labs, luxurious residential, public space and industrial design. He specializes in complex modeling, parametric generative geometry and storytelling by visualization.

I-yang's work explores emerging design trends and opportunities arising from digitalization, including game engine, new retail experience, multisensory data experience, experimental development paradigm and speculative spatial design.

His work has been widely featured by major international media outlets such as ArchDaily, Architectural Review, Architect Magazine, Business Wire, Dezeen, Domus, Designboom, Fast Company, The Boston Globe, and more.

I-yang holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with First Class Honor from the University of Hong Kong.

Awards
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2023
Information is Beautiful
Information is Beautiful
Core 77 Design Award
Falling Walls Art & Science Breakthrough of the Year
Red Dot Design Award
Fast Company Innovation By Design (Data Design)
Fast Company World Changing Idea (Art & Design)
Fast Company World Changing Idea (Experimental)
San Francisco Design Week Award
Creative Climate Awards
iF Design Award (Professional Product)
iF Design Award (Professional Product)
European Product Design Award (Interface)
European Product Design Award (Personal Products)
European Product Design Award (Personal Products)
International Design Awards (Multimedia/Interactive Media)
International Design Awards (Interface Product Design)
International Design Awards (Home Appliances)
International Design Awards (Home Product Design)
Aurea Awards
Vega Digital Awards (Best Use of Interactivity)
Vega Digital Awards (Interactive, Game / Real-Time)
UX Design Award
A' Design Awards (Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design)
Muse Creative Awards (Gold, Immersive & Experiential)