Product & industrial design · Creative technology · Design leadership. I build architecture, products, identities and digital experiences as one continuous ecosystem.
Buildings, interiors and environments that behave like organisms, not objects.
Wearables, carry systems and vehicles taken from sketch to 3D-printed reality.
Brands built as worlds — typography, apparel, film and voice included.
Interfaces and websites that made it to production. Users arrive without rage-clicking.
Six years, three engagement types, one throughline. The consultancies ran alongside the studio roles — not instead of them. Architecture school taught the systems; everything since has been pressure-testing them across products, brands, films and buildings.
Echolocation isn't just for bats.
A sensory headgear that maps space through sound — giving spatial awareness back to the visually impaired. Haptic sensors recreate texture, vibration and temperature on the neck band; the auditory unit translates the room into signal. Sculpted digitally, then 3D-printed and held up to the light. The model below is the actual production file — drag it. Carefully. It passed scrutineering.
Haptic engine — feeling, remote
Auditory unit
Print in progress — Curtin tech lab
Bench. Blade. Prototype.
Carbon fibre shell — less drag, more downforce
Studio — nowhere to hide on white
Visual unit — spatial awarenessConcept vehicles, studied like sculpture.
The MK6 concept series — a hypercar explored across bodywork, stance and light. And AIRFOIL, a bladeless personal drone that borrows its airflow logic from a hair dryer and applies it to the sky — sketched on an iPad, sculpted in 3D, then printed and held. The model below is the actual file. Maximum attack, minimum clutter.
MK6 / 01 — FRONT
MK6 / 02 — ROSSO
MK6 / 03 — PROFILE
MK6 / 04 — LIVERY STUDY
MK6 / 05 — STANCE
MK6 / 06 — LIGHTS OUT
AIRFOIL / 07 — FIELD TEST
AIRFOIL / 08 — BLADELESS
AIRFOIL / 09 — PARC FERMÉ
AIRFOIL — descent, golden hour
Airflow logic — thank you, Dyson
iPad sketch → duct prints — same afternoon
First fit check — flight pending
In the machine — lattice scaffoldingAerodynamics is just sculpture that argues back.
Wind tunnel — session 26 / flow attachedArchitecture you could actually inhale.
A villa built on spatial clarity, natural light and material balance. Every view was crafted to feel inhabitable, not just photogenic — openness, proportion and mood turned from drawings into visuals that behave like memories of a place you haven't visited yet.
Pool court — still water, still mind
Autumn elevation
Concrete, softened
The forest, framed
Rain room — light includedClassrooms from a kinder science fiction.
Orica Blu is a starship classroom — fluid ceilings, ambient lighting and furniture that treats curiosity as a structural material. Arrakis is a music school where façades respond to light and airflow, so the building performs before the students do.
Orica Blu — ceiling as sky
Exploded axonometric
Plan — aerial + entrance
Arrakis — dusk performance
Orica Blu — the spread, uncroppedMinimal outside. Plotting something inside.
Deck CT — a creative control deck with a scroll wheel and modular magnetic buttons, designed to do more while looking like less. Dzine Folio — a luxury carry system with magnetic locks. Panic included never.
Deck CT — in the hand
Dzine Folio — carbon mood
Deck CT — elevation 01
Modular faces
Elevation 03 — scroll wheel
Folio — front, buttoned down
Gold trim variant
Red strap. Obviously.Materials pass scrutineering too.
Macro — carbon, stone, obsessionBrands are worlds. These are field notes.
The Riotform apparel line, poster work that argues with itself, and the drawings underneath everything — digital paint, ballpoint honesty and sketches with no agenda (except looking good).
HOPE — digital paint
Riotform worn — drop 001
Gothic renaissance
Chennaiyil oru naal
Ink — no undo button
Layered back panel
Neon study
Cathedral — gouache, night
Drop 001 — flat, before the attitude
Graphite portraitSerious about the work. Not about myself.
Perth — between projects, still smilingWhere the obsession gets peer-reviewed.
A design-research study on material evolution in Formula 1 — from steel and aluminium to carbon fibre, graphene and the eco-driven paradigm ahead. Ninety years of engineering, typeset with the same care as the cars. This is why the whole studio thinks in sectors and tenths.
Cover — design paradigms
1930 → 2024, one grid
Safety — the non-negotiable sector
Sustainability — re-designed monocoque
The future paradigm — we are checkingFeatured exhibits are the race. This is the garage — every project, concept and exploration, catalogued. Some entries are still under covers. We are checking.
Somewhere between precision and experimentation.
The founder, mid-corner — golden hour withheld
AJ Ling — mid-stride, unbotheredArchitecture trained me first, and it never really left — every brand, product or interface I build is still a structure: load paths, hierarchy, light, the way a person moves through it. That's why I refuse to stay inside one discipline. Ideas don't respect lane markings, so neither do I. A villa teaches me about interfaces. A hypercar teaches me about typography. Everything is telemetry for everything else.
Bachelor of Architecture in Chennai; master's certificate in design at Curtin, Perth. Days: Assistant Design Lead at Sobha Realty, running design across projects worldwide. The rest of the time: Riotform Studios, the laboratory I founded — where experimentation isn't a phase, it's the quality-control department. I directed two short films that went and won first prize, and I still pretend all my design decisions were obvious from the start.
On AI: I treat generative tools as instruments in the pipeline, not a shortcut around it — concept exploration, iteration velocity and visual development, with the craft decisions still made by a designer. This entire website was designed and built by me, in code.
My greatest ongoing project.
An experimental creative studio built on one belief: disciplines are lanes, and lanes are for overtaking. Riotform collides architecture, branding, products, spaces and digital worlds into single ecosystems — with its own apparel line, its own research division, and its own hidden R&D lab (you may have already found it).
The founder, at the bench — prouder than reasonablePut architecture next to apparel next to aerodynamics. The friction is the point.
Every idea gets built, printed, rendered or shipped. Concepts that stay concepts are DNFs.
Maximum attack, minimum clutter. Rebellion with tolerances.
Hiring, commissioning, or just curious. Bring the brief — the coffee's on me, or at least I'll pretend it is.
You found all eight. Champions get perks: email with the subject line “P1” and the coffee is real. Simply lovely.
championship complete — click anywhere to return to parc ferméYou found the R&D lab. Step into the tunnel — 20,000 particles will reconstruct you as a Formula One digital sculpture.
Front camera required. Everything renders locally — no pixel leaves your machine. We checked. Twice.