Chifen Cheng is a product designer, who was born in Taiwan and grew up in Montreal, Canada. Being a lover of minimalistic things, she founded Designlump to set her curiosity free. She likes to push herself beyond her limits and enjoys the process of over coming different design hurdles. Like many designers, she begins each concept with a sketch. As she draws, she experiments with shapes, colors, materials, forms and functions, with the goal of keeping them simple and balanced. Her design approach has earned her the Iron A' Design Award 2016, Best Prototype of IDS 2014 and Grand Prix du Design 2016. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and websites, including Monocle, Elle Decoration, Design Milk, Sight Unseen, Designboom, and Mocoloco. Laura has always been fascinated by how things are made and how things can be joined together. She admires the functional simplicity and natural materials in Scandinavian product design and believes that design can and should play an important role in everyday life.  Laura grew up in Calgary, and moved to Toronto to attend Ryerson University where she earned a Bachelor of Interior Design degree in 2011. After graduation, Laura worked as a junior interior designer on commercial projects at a large architectural firm before designing restaurants, lighting, furniture, and feature art installations at a multi-disciplinary design studio. In her own time, Laura has exhibited furniture at the Prototype exhibit and jewelry at the Designboom Mart, both at the Toronto Interior Design Show. She also fabricated a large-scale cross stitch installation by hand for a restaurant in downtown Toronto.  At Umbra, Laura is excited to work as a product designer and to help with sourcing and specifying materials and colours for products. Laura finds inspiration by exploring cities and by taking detail photos of interesting patterns, textures, and colours. She loves to learn about new materials and manufacturing techniques and enjoys the process of making things by hand.