Design Indaba Magazine Q211
Italian architect and designer Aram Lello won the Western Cape Furniture Design Competition at the 2011 Design Indaba Expo.
www.designindaba.com/news-snippet/20q-aram-lello

Creative Cape Town 2011
The 2011 round of the WCFI design competition saw Aram Lello win with his design for a community bench. Lello's design address the need for street furniture that can be modular, secure, yet easily replaceable.

Design Indaba Web 2011
Here’s a seating design that could work really well as bench seating system in urban communities. It could work just as well in a gallery, school or suburban garden.
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Dwell Media 2011
Initially inspired by a competition for seating with a "shack chic flavour," Aram Lello conceived of a bench system that would work in urban communities as well as in a suburban garden or a gallery. "I give a guide, and then you decide how to use it and how to change it," he says.

Masupatsela / episode 13 / 2009
Winners of the competition, Yi-Jang Tsai  and Aram Lello, are members of the Shoebox Homes board today. Aram’s winning design allowed a small space in Factreton Cape Town to grow bigger without changing the size of the house.
www.freerangefilms.co.za/Masupatsela2/episodes/episode13innovation

Obrigado Magazine / issue 13 / summer 2009
You hoard magazines, just can’t let go. Problem is, you don’t have the room. Enter architect/product designer Aram Lello, a fella who loves a spatial challenge. His latest caper is a sleek, stackable modular display in Perspex.
www.obrigado.co.za

One Small Seed / issue 13 / feb 2009
Produced in Cape Town for the rest of the country, the editorial is shame­lessly skewed towards the local market and has a strong commitment to feature and foster young talent.  
www.onesmallseed.com

Men’s Health Living / issue 17 / july august 2008
Aram deviated from the brief by suggesting that rather than a Wendy house, he construct a simple shell with timber walls filled with sandbags (for thermal insulation) using the low-cost Ecobean system.
www.mh.co.za

Men’s Health Living / issue 16 / june 2008
The clever new piece of furniture is one of architect Aram Lello’s works and its genius is that it combines functionality with great design – it’s a shelf that’s terribly easy on the eye. “Today magazines are treated like books, collected and read and re-read. I wanted to create a dynamic storage solution”. 
www.mh.co.za

Digest of South African Architecture / issue 2007-2008
The two winners of the 36sqm Design Challenge are architect Aram Lello, for space utilisation, and Y Tsai of Tsai Design Studio, for furniture design. The core of Aram Lello’s concept is the creation of choices through adaptable living space that serves the family’s dynamics.

Business week / summer 2007
Design for Better Living. Architect Aram Lello and Y. Tsai of Tsai Design Studio, won the 36sqm Design Challenge with their redesign of a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house occupied by a family of 10. The new plan consists of a versatile living area flanked by two bedrooms, separated by mobile wall partitions.  
www.businessweek.com

Open Architectural Network 2006
Aram's idea of adaptable living space using mobile cupboards and fold-up bed were put to test in an 40 year old RDP house, where a family of 10 lives. Tsai Design Studio collaborated with Aram in the design, detailing and implementations of the concept.  
www.openarchitecturenetwork.org