Solight Design Information

Solight Design sells and distributes solar-powered innovation. Our products are designed using origami principles to deliver lightweight, compact, self-inflating, and sustainable solar lighting and charging devices. Have light and power anywhere in the world at any time. Our products appeal to design-oriented, outdoor, and environmentally conscious consumers while providing light to those in need. Solight Design was founded by Alice Min-Soo Chun, Professor of Design and Material Culture at Parsons the New School for Design. She has served as the Director of the Materials Resource Lab at the New School and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. After many years of research in integrating solar circuit panels with thin film substrates, she developed the first prototype for a solar inflatable light in 2009. In the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, she converted her lab at Columbia University into an innovation studio for developing solutions to help those impacted. This effort yielded the award-winning Solarpuff™. Alice has also built successful community outreach projects, and her work has been published in the New York Times, Architectural Record, Dwell, and the Journal of Architectural Education. Her book, entitled Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design, was published by Wiley Press in 2015.