Kalina Mladenova Portfolio
I am a designer and an experimentalist.
I love understanding how things work and finding ways to improve existing devices and create new ones. I want to innovate and create things that are beautiful and can help our everyday lives.
My favourite animal is the hippo.
I am currently working at TM Light. I hold a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in Art from Yale University.
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TM Light
New York, NY
The U-Haul Gallery is a movement meant to showcase works of contemporary artists, while making it accessible to the public. They bring the art from the galleries to the people
For this project, together with TM Light, I helped to design a new indirect mobile lighting system for the trucks - an elevated look for their growing interntional show. This system works with LED stirps that are connected to steel channels. The channels connect to the ceiling of the truck via magnets and can be moved depending on the position of the artwork or removed when the truck has to be closed.
Images: Brian Hatton, personal archive