Omer Arbel (born 1976) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Vancouver. His output is broad, including materials research, lighting design, building design and site specific installations. He is one of two co-founders of Bocci, a Canadian design and manufacturing company. Arbel's designs are numbered in order of creation (1.1 – 113 at the time of writing); some have commercial potential and move into production (examples: 14, 16, 22, 28,73) while others remain conceptual or collectible (examples: 2.4, 30, 41, 64 and 71). Traversing many materials and processes, Omer Arbel is active in numerous disciplines at many scales, with ideas often travelling from one to the other. Arbel’s work has been described under the rubric of parametric design, a method in which conditions are se