About Pandemic Design Studio
About Pandemic Design Studio
About Pandemic Design Studio
Pandemic Design Studio creates architectural installations, modular biophilic systems, custom lighting, signature features, and sculptural environments for hospitality, commercial, residential, and public spaces. While our work spans a diverse range of creative mediums, the common thread of our design approach is the ongoing exploration of how objects, systems, and environments relate to one another through aggregation and across different scales. Whether designing a living wall, a public art installation, a custom lighting feature, or a signature element within a larger development, we are interested in creating work that transcends the individual object—becoming part of the identity, experience, and memory of a place.
Over the past decade, this approach has led to patented product collections, large-scale hospitality installations, public art commissions, museum exhibitions, luxury residential projects, and adaptive reuse collaborations across the United States. Our work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, Landscape Architecture Magazine, This Old House, Home Edit, the New York Post, and numerous other publications.
We collaborate with architects, interior designers, developers, institutions, and private clients seeking distinctive solutions that extend beyond conventional product specification. Through a combination of proprietary product collections, custom fabrication, specialized sourcing capabilities, and historic lighting expertise, we create spaces and experiences with a level of authenticity, character, and originality that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.
Pandemic Design Studio creates architectural installations, modular biophilic systems, custom lighting, signature features, and sculptural environments for hospitality, commercial, residential, and public spaces. While our work spans a diverse range of creative mediums, the common thread of our design approach is the ongoing exploration of how objects, systems, and environments relate to one another through aggregation and across different scales. Whether designing a living wall, a public art installation, a custom lighting feature, or a signature element within a larger development, we are interested in creating work that transcends the individual object—becoming part of the identity, experience, and memory of a place.
Over the past decade, this approach has led to patented product collections, large-scale hospitality installations, public art commissions, museum exhibitions, luxury residential projects, and adaptive reuse collaborations across the United States. Our work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, Landscape Architecture Magazine, This Old House, Home Edit, the New York Post, and numerous other publications.
We collaborate with architects, interior designers, developers, institutions, and private clients seeking distinctive solutions that extend beyond conventional product specification. Through a combination of proprietary product collections, custom fabrication, specialized sourcing capabilities, and historic lighting expertise, we create spaces and experiences with a level of authenticity, character, and originality that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.
Hear From the Founder
To see our products in action and hear more about us, check out our YouTube channel:
Hear From the Founder
To see our products in action and hear more about us, check out our YouTube channel here:
To see our products in action and hear more about us, check out our YouTube channel:
About David
David Rozek is the founder and creative director of Pandemic Design Studio.
Trained as an architect, David earned both a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture and a Bachelor of Architecture from North Carolina State University. His work has evolved beyond a traditional architectural practice into a multidisciplinary career spanning product design, custom lighting, adaptive reuse consulting, fabrication, architectural installations, and public art.
A defining characteristic of David's work is his ability to recognize potential beyond an object's original purpose. Whether working with modular ceramics, sculptural forms, historic industrial fixtures, architectural artifacts, or custom lighting, he is continually exploring how objects can be transformed into something entirely unexpected. Rather than accepting conventional uses, David is interested in how design can reveal new possibilities, new experiences, and new relationships between people and the built environment.
This mindset has yielded projects ranging from patented ceramic collections and large-scale public installations to custom lighting commissions and hospitality environments. What begins as a single object often evolves into something much larger—a planter becomes a living wall, a wall becomes a freestanding architectural feature, and utilitarian factory fixtures become sculptural chandeliers and immersive lighting installations.
Over the past decade, David has developed a deep expertise in reclaimed antique industrial lighting, building an extensive archive of fixtures, catalogs, and industry knowledge that informs his work with architects, developers, and preservation teams. While many view these fixtures as historical artifacts, David is particularly interested in their untapped creative potential. By reimagining industrial lighting in ways never envisioned by its original manufacturers, he creates lighting compositions that balance historical authenticity with contemporary design.
Today, David continues to lead Pandemic Design Studio's creative direction while developing new products, patented systems, and installations. Whether designing modular forms, a signature lighting feature, or a large-scale installation, he is continually interested in how a single object or idea can evolve into something far greater in scale, impact, and experience.
David Rozek is the founder and creative director of Pandemic Design Studio.
Trained as an architect, David earned both a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture and a Bachelor of Architecture from North Carolina State University. His work has evolved beyond a traditional architectural practice into a multidisciplinary career spanning product design, custom lighting, adaptive reuse consulting, fabrication, architectural installations, and public art.
A defining characteristic of David's work is his ability to recognize potential beyond an object's original purpose. Whether working with modular ceramics, sculptural forms, historic industrial fixtures, architectural artifacts, or custom lighting, he is continually exploring how objects can be transformed into something entirely unexpected. Rather than accepting conventional uses, David is interested in how design can reveal new possibilities, new experiences, and new relationships between people and the built environment.
This mindset has yielded projects ranging from patented ceramic collections and large-scale public installations to custom lighting commissions and hospitality environments. What begins as a single object often evolves into something much larger—a planter becomes a living wall, a wall becomes a freestanding architectural feature, and utilitarian factory fixtures become sculptural chandeliers and immersive lighting installations.
Over the past decade, David has developed a deep expertise in reclaimed antique industrial lighting, building an extensive archive of fixtures, catalogs, and industry knowledge that informs his work with architects, developers, and preservation teams. While many view these fixtures as historical artifacts, David is particularly interested in their untapped creative potential. By reimagining industrial lighting in ways never envisioned by its original manufacturers, he creates lighting compositions that balance historical authenticity with contemporary design.
Today, David continues to lead Pandemic Design Studio's creative direction while developing new products, patented systems, and installations. Whether designing modular forms, a signature lighting feature, or a large-scale installation, he is continually interested in how a single object or idea can evolve into something far greater in scale, impact, and experience.
