Allele.Design^{I design everything (almost)}
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Mucky Matters
Eco-to-GOGO
Immersive Whispers of the Black Death
Hastings Haven
Nocturn Lock
2to1 Chair
DrinkDrankDrunk
FampShade




          My studio name Allele.Design draws from the biological term “allele” — a variant form of a gene, reflecting my interest in variation + adaptation + hidden layers within everyday objects.
 It also echoes to my name ‘Ally Lee’, positioning my work as a personal yet evolving expression of design that responds and challenges every norms, to reshape familiar forms into tools for public reflection.

                                                                                      Ally Lee 2025

Ally is a designer whose work navigates the intersection of material experimentation, environmental critique and public interaction. Her practice reflects a commitment to process-led design and sustainable questioning, often transforms overlooked materials into communicative objects that make the invisible visible.


Her work reframes domestic forms and everyday artefacts as platforms for environmental awareness, with approaches that balance intuitive making with strategic intention, revealing how subtle design gestures can provoke public reflection and shift perception.


Through making installations, prototypes and disruptive products, Ally explores how material choices and contextual placements can engage audiences more deeply than data ever could. Her work sits confidently between experimentation and application: critical and futuristic.

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04.Hastings Haven

University of the Arts London
2023 Publication

Herculite
Jesmonite
Reclaimed Metal Rod
Hemp Rope 

A small-batch trinket dish inspired by the black fishing huts and rugged coastal textures of Hastings, East Sussex. Designed and produced over five weeks, the project explores how narrative and memory can be embedded in functional objects. Each of the five pieces, cast in stone-textured Jesmonite and detailed with rusted metal, carries slight variations that reflect the shifting atmosphere of the UK shoreline.



Developed through field research, sketching, mould making, and material testing, Hastings Haven merges traditional seaside symbolism with contemporary design. The final outcome captures a tactile sense of place — where handmade process, coastal heritage, and jewellery rituals quietly intersect.