American industrial designer Jozeph Forakis is celebrated for bringing high-tech engineering, automotive ergonomics, and kinetic elegance to consumer electronics and lighting. Educated in industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art, he worked internationally before establishing his studios in Milan and New York. Forakis achieved design immortality with the iconic Havana lamp (1993) for Italian lighting house Foscarini, selected for the permanent design collection of MoMA. Made of segmented polyethylene shells, its cigar-like profile established a new benchmark for diffused ambient lighting. He also led groundbreaking mobile phone designs for Motorola (including the milestone D&AD-winning V70) and authored architectural systems for Artemide and Magis.

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