Photo: CJ Rivera

Stanley Ruiz is a trans-disciplinary designer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked in the fields of product and furniture design, exhibition design, crafts, ceramics, and interactive media. He was the lead product designer at Jonathan Adler and Real Simple. His products have been sold at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Habitat, Takashimaya, Urban Outfitters and numerous boutiques and galleries worldwide. Stanley has exhibited extensively in the USA, Europe and Asia. He received the Coup De Coeur award at Maison & Objet in Paris in 2008, and Surface Magazine named him as one of the Avant Guardians of 2010. His recent projects include material development and designing product collections for artisans in the Philippines.

Awards & Recognition:

- Mugna Award nominee - CebuNext 2011
- Surface Magazine Avant Guardian 2010
- Invited to Talents at Ambiente, Frankfurt (Feb 2009)
- Coup De Coeur prize, Maison & Objet, Paris (Sept 2008)
- A+: The Young Designer's Platform - New York International Gift Show (August 2008)
- Nominated for Ateneo Art Awards 2007
- Philippine delegate, 4th Asia-Europe Art Camp, Helsinki, Finland (June 2006)
- Shortlisted, Electrolux/Designboom award, Imagine the home in 2020, Stockholm/Milan (November 2005)
- Furniture Design Award (student level), Product Development and Design Center Philippines/ Chamber of Furniture Industries of the Philippines (2001)