IvanVoo

Industrial design — Sydney

Ivan Voo

Industrial Designer

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Portrait of Ivan Voo.

I design from the material up.

I'm a final-year industrial designer at UNSW, drawn to projects where the material has to earn its place: crushed oyster shell that turns out to be structural, plasma-cut steel that bends light. Work sits between sustainable, craft-led practice and medical device design.

Shio, a modular bench pressed from recycled HDPE and crushed oyster shell, photographed on white seamless.
Shio — 75/25 recycled HDPE and crushed oyster shell, sheet-pressed

Selected work

Two ways of asking what a material wants to be.

  1. The four flat-pack components of the Shio bench laid out, showing the speckled shell-composite surface.

    01 — Graduation project

    Shio 潮

    A modular public bench pressed from oyster-shell waste and recycled HDPE — engineered to a safety factor of 3, tested to 10.

    Sustainable design · Composite material

  2. Distortion, a pendant lamp of layered plasma-cut steel discs finished in matte black.

    02 — ANTD 2026 finalist

    Distortion

    A pendant lamp of layered, plasma-cut steel — its silhouette pulled from the way light bends around a black hole.

    Lighting design · Metal fabrication

All work

Beyond the finished pieces

The lab — process, offcuts,
and things that aren't finished.

Plastics tests, recycled-sheet studies and pressed forms made alongside Shio. Material experiments, CAD explorations and the sketches that didn't make it into a final piece — but shaped one.

Visit the lab
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.