Collab

As we continue our series highlighting the 2025 Student Design Competition awardees.

Honorable Mention: Jenga Cabinet by Haewon Kang (Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University)

Inspired by the logic of stacking and play, the design transforms individual storage units into a modular system, inviting users to rearrange, interact with, and redefine its function over time.

Want to see more from this year’s winners?

Want to see more from this year’s winners? Read the full feature in the Collab Journal: https://www.collabjournal.org/journal/dsqg8wbwxt197yrvaer16gmz757c5o

Join us to celebrate Sebastian Errazuriz as the recipient of the 2025 Collab Design Excellence Award.

Meet the artist and be the first to view Sebastian Errazuriz: Double Take, a mid-career survey presenting 15 years of a multidisciplinary practice that twists expectations of furniture, lighting, and everyday objects. Embracing humor and appropriation, Errazuriz’s one-of-a-kind pieces carry subtext that moves beyond form and function into personal narrative, political message, and cultural commentary.

Thursday, November 20, 2025
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Philadelphia Art Museum – Main Building
Tickets: $85 ($75 for Collab members)

“Sebastian Errazuriz, the 2025 Collab Design Excellence Award exhibition,” is made possible by The Lisa S. Roberts and David W. Seltzer Endowment Fund in support of the Collab Design Excellence Award Exhibition.

The 2025 Collab Design Excellence Award is sponsored by Amuneal, Poor Richard’s Charitable Trust, venturethree, Eileen Tognini Design, Rago Auction, and Voith & Mactavish Architects LLP.

Learn more + purchase tickets: https://www.visitpham.org/events/collab-design-sebastian-errazuriz

🎉 Happy Birthday, Bruce Mau (born October 25, 1959)

Today we celebrate Bruce Mau, our 2015 Design Excellence Award honoree and a Canadian designer known for expanding the scope of design across disciplines and industries.

Starting in graphic design, Mau went on to found Bruce Mau Design, co-author Massive Change, and apply design methodology to education, sustainability, architecture, museums, and organizational systems. His collaborations span institutions like MoMA, MIT Media Lab, and OMA/Rem Koolhaas, and his work continues through the Massive Change Network.

Whether tackling visual identity or global challenges, Mau reminds us that design is about more than making things—it’s about shaping how we live.

📸: Courtesy of https://brucemaustudio.com/