Profile
After graduating in 2003 Luka’s studio was established, specializing in games and user experience design for top mobile companies and toy design & invention for various international companies.
In 2007 Luka was invited to join Modu, an innovative mobile phone startup as the head of the design and UX team at the company, working closely with the R&D as well a with external firms and studios to create a range of products and experiences.
From 2010 Luka have been working with some of the top kitchen, office and home accessories companies in the field.Since 2006, Luka have been teaching industrial design and interaction design at HIT (Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Israel),
From 2016 to 2021 Luka was Head the industrial design department at HIT.
Awards:
2021 Catalogue of Possibilities, Caring Infrastructure Award, Austrian Cultural Forum
2017 Solutions Design Award, Ambiente, Germany
2006 Up to 100 Design, Ashdod Museum
2003 excellence scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
Exhibitions:
2024 Most Likely, Designers, Archaeologists, Mysterious Objects, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2023 The Tel-Aviv Biennale of Crafts and Design, MUZA - Eretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv
2022 Imaginary Futures, Ongoing Present, Jerusalem Design Week, Jerusalem
2021 Black Box, Design Museum Holon, Israel
2021 Catalogue of Possibilities, Caring Infrastructure, liebling house, Tel-Aviv
2019 Not in Heaven, The Jerusalem Bianalle, Israel
2019 Forms of Smiles, Design Museum Holon, Israel
2018 Terracotta Rave, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv
2018 Aplicable Nature, Jerusalem design week, Jerusalem
2017 High Contrast , Seol Design Week, Seoul Korea
2017 state of design, Berlin Design Week. Berlin
2017 Sound and Matter in Design, Design Museum, Holon
2017 Al Ha-Makom, BINYAMIN gallery, Tel Aviv
2017 On the Edge, MUZA Eretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv
2017 Violent Object , Vitrina Gallery, HIT
2016 Overview, Design Museum, Holon
2016 Yes&, – Design After Design, Triennale, Milan
2016 connections, Vitrina Gallery, HIT
2016 Smart Materials Stupid Materials, Vitrina Gallery, HIT
2014 Art & Technology -Israeli Perspectives, Kiev, Ukraine
2013 Total Recall, Ars Electronica Linz, Austria
2013 High Gear, The Farm Gallery Holon
2012 Plus Ten , Design Museum, Holon
2012 D-CODE, Design Museum, Holon
2010 Judaica Twist, Beit Hatfutsot (The Diaspora House), Tel Aviv
2006 Living Spaces, Future Perfect Gallery, New York
2005 Subress, Milan Design Week, Milan
2005 Promisedesign, Milan Design Week, Italy/ Berlin/ Copenhagen
2004 The Bread Show, Horace Richter Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2004 Life Symphony, Felissimo Design House, New York
My path as a designer started in 2002, on the second year of my BA when I was hired as a designer by a toy-inventing company. Design is part of my story ever since.
As a product designer for the last 20 plus years, i have been working both in mass-produced products and on limited editions and design research, creating unique top-selling products and innovative experiences through a playful approach to both design and things.
As a design educator for the past 16 years, i bring to my teaching my broad understanding of design as an ever expanding field. I provide my students with a variety of tools, pushing them to explore the intersection of product and technology, to account for social impact, to experiment with entrepreneurship in the field. I expect my students, as I expect myself, to be able to constantly evolve as designers and students.
As a multidisciplinary designer i have taken part in many exhibitions in galleries and museums in Israel and internationally. My exhibited works use design to ask questions about the relationship between people and objects and explore the ways design affects our lives.
i create in a state of play