Allele.DesignI 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.



05.Nocturn Lock

University of the Arts London 2023

Mild Steel
LED light bulb
Plastic Case for LED 
This compact reading lamp reimagines the ritual of unlocking focus. Designed with a solid steel base and a functioning lock mechanism, the lamp activates through a physical key. As the key turns, the LED light shifts its direction, showing the user’s intentional engagement with the object. This interaction transforms the act of reading into a moment of commitment: the key must be used to adjust the beam, inviting pause before illumination. 



The object draws inspiration from privacy safes and diary locks, embedding the ideas of trust, secrecy and ownership. It functions as both a task light and a personal symbol of setting boundaries in shared environments. So Practical yet poetic, it proposes light not as a default but something to be earned.