Press 2025
Polyp Lighting
by Justin Bailey
ICFF 2025
Look Book at WantedDesign
Stand W758
May 18-20, 2025
This year Justin Bailey exhibits new variations of the Polyp Lighting collection, one using lasercut Yupo paper and the other in Anodized Aluminum.
Polyp Lamp in Aluminum, 2025
Polyp Lamps
The Polyp Lamps feature assembly as ornament to create voluminous shapes inspired by fruit and their subtle shifts, think apples, cherries, and tomatoes. Polyp Lighting can be setup as either table or pendant accent lighting. The collection comes in two material variations, the first in Yupo Paper and the second in perforated, anodized aluminum.
These lamps are influenced by Noguchi’s classic Akari paper lighting and space-age modernist furniture and objects, contrasting with the often rigid spaces found in design and architecture.
Algorithmically assisted in design, the lamps come in a wide variety of variations in both material iterations that lead to the hallmark movements across shape and scale.
Scale:
Yupo Polyps: 12” diameter up to 16” diameter
Aluminum Polyps: 16” diameter up to 21” diameter
Link for Image Download (Hi Res+Lo Res): <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gD-_eLjp8Bc19PpoU019dQ3qpyaUY6lK?usp=sharing>
About Justin Bailey
Justin Bailey is a furniture and lighting designer based in Bloomington, Indiana, USA where he is an Associate Professor of Art and Design foundations at Indiana University’s Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design. Bailey graduated with an MFA in 3D Design from the University of Iowa (2016) and a BFA in Sculpture (2012) from Webster University.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Justin Bailey has since presented designs nationally and internationally such as in Milan, Italy (Salone del Mobile’s SaloneSatellite 2018/2019/2022); Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2020); and in New York City (WantedDesign 2017), he was the recipient of a LIT Lighting Design Award (2018) and an honorable mention for the SIT Design Award (2020).
Design Ethos
Justin Bailey’s design studio explores how pliable surfaces integrate with form and materiality to become design objects. Functional artefacts serve as a medium for expressing curiosities of form, craft, materials, and structure. Bailey operates at the intersection of disciplines that span furniture design, contemporary craft, and digital fabrication. This overlap reflects our current era— a nexus that demonstrates how integrating digital technology with tactile output can embrace and enhance traditional practices in creating functional objects. Justin is captivated by subtle irregularities seen in gestural motions like tilting, draping, and inflating, contemplating how these organic shifts might influence our relationship with everyday objects, furniture, and lighting.
Contact Information
Justin Bailey
www.jbaileydesign.com
justin@jbaileydesign.com
+1.314.780.27.30
Instagram @justinbaileydesign