ili.ad is a New York–based studio exploring figural, architectural forms in bronze and clay.
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ili.ad debuts Anthurium, a sensor-responsive leaded-glass nightlight, for Dudd Haus and The Future Perfect’s DUDD LITE, a group exhibition of artist-designed nightlights presented during NYCxDESIGN 2026.
ili.ad presented Crane Vase, a lost-wax cast bronze work, in Grateful Dudd, Jonald Dudd’s 2025 NYC Design Week exhibition guest-curated by Chen Chen & Kai Williams.
ili.ad presented Maceta Celosía, a barro negro prototype developed in Oaxaca, in The Reality of the Virtual, the Curated section of COLLECTIBLE Brussels 2025.
Drifting across the boundaries of space and form, ili.ad navigates the textures, rhythms, and atmospheres of the built world. From fragments—a jaunty rooftop urn’s handle, a forlorn parabolic diving platform in an off-season Lido—ili.ad distills inspiration into objects that reflect their origins while transcending them, each piece imbued with evocative presence.
With over a decade of experience designing for Fortune 500 companies, ili.ad’s founder mastered the translation of identity into spatial experiences, from objects to architecture. Selected in 2019 to reimagine an executive conference room as a lounge for the New York Times, the project marked a shift toward more exploratory identity work.
The Renzo Piano–designed headquarters became a worry stone, where its forms and patterns flowed into a branding exercise, charging the project’s identity. Designed while riding out the winter in La Roma, Mexico City, mornings spent sketching gave way to afternoons absorbing tropical Arts Deco. The inevitable hybridization established a studio practice that transforms distinctive traces of place into resonant identities that transcend scale.
