Multiverse

A low-voltage lighting platform: one magnetic rail, fixed at install, that accepts interchangeable heads, so a room's lighting can change without anyone reopening the ceiling. The bet was that specifiers and their clients value flexibility after the install more than they value locking in a fixture at it.

The real decision wasn't the fixture, it was whether to build Multiverse as a single product or as an architecture other products could extend. I built the platform. Cylinders now runs on the same spine instead of starting over.

I owned it end to end: the electrical architecture, NRTL certification, the production ramp across our power-supply vendors, and the launch. Certification is the part that quietly kills most good-looking versions of this product before they reach a wall.

A track array can be built in almost any size or shape. An engineer draws the layout, and from that drawing the bill of material auto-generates and syncs to the ERP rather than getting re-keyed by hand. Nothing sits in a warehouse: every fixture is made to order and ships in one to two weeks, a one-off array on the same clock as a stock part. That is why a catalog this open-ended is run by three people, two engineers and a product manager, and not a department. The variety is unbounded by design. The cost of carrying it is not.

Red Dot 2025, then BDNY Best in Show for Lighting and Best Product Overall the same year. It does a lot of the talking in meetings I'm not in.

role

Design & product development lead

recognition

Red Dot 2025 · BDNY Best in Show · Lighting · BDNY Best Product Overall

source

Red Dot 2025 →