jerome arul

jerome arul is a designer from singapore,
and works at the rhode island school of design.

in geneva switzerland, he began playing the drums at age 11 under the tutelage of dan-djuma legos.
at age 16, he painted with the dutch master frederik van hasselt whilst hiking through the yunnan province.

after a stint as an engineer in the army, his work evolved from street art to industrial design.
his first job was designing and building an off-road vehicle in nairobi kenya.

shortly after working on superpedestrian's copenhagen wheel, he started an underground fabrication shop called proto roboto.

today, he works on anything from robotics to kinetic art, inspired by geometry and nature.

isotropic vector matrix #6, 2019
poplar, abs

@ the wurks gallery, providence ri

mobius #2, 2013

an off-road vehicle for the east african market.
I was an automotive designer on a small team
of design engineers and mechanics
developing the pilot production vehicle for mobius motors;
in nairobi kenya.

ecozoom, 2015
charcoal cookstove

ecozoom is a B Corp that makes portable stoves powered by wood and charcoal.
improved cookstoves significantly reduce indoor air pollution and use fuel efficiently.
ecozoom cookstoves have been deployed by the World Food Programme, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Relief International, through programs with UNICEF and UNFCCC.

design: d. sierra
mfg engneer: j. arul
mfg: shengzhou stove manufacturers

creative mapping, 2012
balloon, helium, digital camera


risd digital + media w/ c.d’ignazio.
we balloon mapped over Save the Bay with the help of grassroots mapping (now public lab).