As a product designer and educator, I focus on how people relate to each other through the mediating influence of products. Each project is an opportunity to go beyond the interface with things. We shape, express, and give endurance to the desires, wishes, and needs of humans.
Adriel Rollins is the Principal of Adriel Design, Inc.; a design studio specializing in products, furniture, interior architecture, space planning, and yacht styling. Though the work is heavy with artifacts, the success of our projects are found in the notion of "product-as-event" where we consider the dynamic and interactive qualities of products as they are placed in the context of human behavior.
Photo courtest of WWU IDSA, taken by Colton Sanford
Awards & Honors
2014
Winner - IxDA Best In Category - Empowering
Finalist - AIGA Seattle Pourback Grant
2013
Winner - IDEA Gold International Design Excellence Award IDSA
Winner - Design Ignites Change Idea Award - Grand Prize
2012 – 2013
Recipient of the Boyer and Elizabeth Bole Gonzales Scholarship
2011 – 2012
Recipient of Industrial Design Top Scholar Award granted by UW School of Art
2011
Motoryacht “NCY-125” 38m Built by North Coast Yachts Inc.
Finalist - Boat International World Superyacht Award ‘Best Planing Yacht Under 40 Meters’
Finalist - Boat International World Superyacht Award ‘Motor Yacht of the Year’
Finalist - Boat International World Superyacht Award ‘Motor Yacht Interior’
2010
Motoryacht “Sunrays” 85.5m Built by Oceanco B.V.
Winner - International Superyacht Society ‘Best Power 65m+’
Finalist - Boat International World Superyacht Award ‘Best Displacement Motor Yacht’
Finalist - Showboats International “Best Motor Yacht Interior’
Finalist - International Superyacht Society ‘Best Power Interior’
2009
Motoryacht “Slojo” 48m Built by Delta Marine Industries, Inc.
Finalist - Showboats International ‘Best Motoryacht Interior’
Finalist - Boat International World Superyacht Award ‘Best Planing Yacht Over 40 Meters’
2008
Motoryacht “Mr. Terrible” 47m Built by Delta Marine Industries, Inc.
Winner - Boat International World Superyacht Award ‘Best Planing Yacht Over 40 Meters’
Winner - Boat International World Superyacht Award ‘Best Newcomer of the Year’
Finalist - Boat International World Superyacht Award ‘Motor Yacht Interior’
Winner - Showboats International ‘Best Semi-Displacement Yacht Over 40 Meters’
Finalist - Showboats International “Best Motor Yacht Interior’
Finalist - International Superyacht Society ‘Best Power 40m-65m’
Finalist - International Superyacht Society ‘Best Power Interior’
2007
Motoryacht “Happy Days” 50m Built by Delta Marine Industries, Inc.
Winner - Showboats International ‘Best Full-Displacement Motor Yacht Under 56 Meters’
Finalist - Showboats International ‘Best Motoryacht Interior’
Finalist - Showboats International ‘Most Innovative Motoryacht’
2005
Motoryacht “Triton” 50m Built by Delta Marine Industries, Inc.
Winner - Showboats International ‘Best Full-Displacement Motor Yacht Under 56 Meters’
Finalist - Showboats International ‘Best Motoryacht Interior’
Finalist - Showboats International ‘Most Innovative Motoryacht’
Winner - Robb Report ‘Best of the Best Motoryacht 2004’
Finalist - International Superyacht Society ‘Best Power 43m+’
Finalist - International Superyacht Society ‘Best Power Interior’