MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Choose clean light and help make it accessible to all.

Our choices matter. Every time you choose clean light it's a big individual step towards a more sustainable, solar lifestyle. 

One solar light, instead of a lightbulb, saves 90 pounds of carbon emissions a year.

Every small step counts.

Solight Design
Solight Design

1.6 billion people live without access to electricity.

10% of our profit helps someone in need.

DESIGN MATTERS

The sun is an amazing thing. It gives us nine hundred and seventy trillion kilowatt hours of energy each day. That’s enough energy to give every single person on the planet a lightbulb that would shine bright for their entire lifetime. But we have a crisis right now and it’s tied to fossil fuels. It’s making us sick. it’s making our kids sick and it’s making our planet sick. In the rest of the world, there’s another toxic fossil fuel: kerosene. And when the sun goes down, 1.6 billion people live without access to electricity and rely on kerosene to light their night.

We are passionate about designing beautiful products that help make choosing to live a more sustainable, healthier lifestyle easier and accessible.

Solight Design

Together we can change the way we light our world.

School work by solar lights at night in Haiti the girls from the orphanage  use our solarpuff lamps to read and do tasks at night. We delivered our solar lnaterns after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and in 2021
Solar. Lanterns for emergencies-never be left in the dark -perfect for power outages-or when. disaster strikes-our laamps are better than flash lights --Solight Design
Solar lamps for emergency and disaster relief-syrian refugees hold our solarpuff solar lantern in the dark tent-a family of 5 will have light for safety and surveillance at night. .

INSPIRED BY ORIGAMI

INSPIRED BY ORIGAMI
Collapsible solar light and. charger. The QWNNis the new modern off grid lamp for your home and outdoors. It's origami design flat packs compact and opens into three different forms for lighting you way  to a better future.

CREATED BY ARCHITECTURAL AND MATERIAL EXPERTS

Take a closer look.

Flat pack and travel anywhere

Flat pack and travel anywhere

High-Tech Fabric is Engineered for Extreme Weather

High-Tech Fabric is Engineered for Extreme Weather

Waterproof and They Float

Waterproof and They Float

Innovative origami design

Innovative origami design

Powered by the sun

Powered by the sun

The only self-inflating lantern

The only self-inflating lantern

Solight Design

Our Founder

Alice Min Soo Chun holding. the QWNN solar lampwith Hillary Clinton when she asked Alice to be part of her GUTSY Women Book

Alice Min Soo Chun

Founder

OUR STORY

2006

Quinn, Alice’s son, is diagnosed with asthma. She discovers 1 out of 4 kids in New York City have asthma due to air pollution and decides to focus on solar technology while teaching at Columbia University.

2009

Alice shares her solar research with her students at Columbia University in her material technology class as inspiration for a design proposal assignment. A large inflatable solar light with mouth nozzle is produced as a full scale prototype.

2010

The Haiti earthquake strikes and Alice transform her studio at Columbia University into an innovation workshop to help Haiti. A smaller version of an inflatable solar light with mouth nozzle prototype is produced. Still not satisfied with these early prototypes and concerned about the spreading of germs, disease and contamination because of the mouth nozzle required to inflate, Alice uses origami to create a structure and form without the need to inflate by mouth. The SolarPuff is born.

2015

After three years of field testing in Haiti, Alice launches Solight Design, with a global social mission to help make solar light and power accessible to everyone. Solight Design initiates a Kickstarter for SolarPuff ™with exceptional results and delivers its first 15,000 SolarPuffs to backers. Alice continues her humanitarian efforts in Nepal, Haiti, Ghana, Liberia and with Syrian refugees in Greece, working with NGO partners delivering SolarPuffs to those in need.

2017

With the devastating impact of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, 130,000 SolarPuffs™ were distributed through NGO partners including Operation Blessing. The Hispanic Federation and the Clinton Global Initiative. Alice continues her humanitarian efforts in Puerto Rico visiting schools and delivering SolarPuffs™in hard to reach rural areas.

2018

Alice completes the QWNN prototype and Solight Design launches Indiegogo for mass market support. QWNN™ is awarded a US Utility Patent. Solight Design is recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative for their commitment to Puerto Rico. SolarPuff™also wins the US Patents for Humanity Award for new innovations that solve global development challenges.

2019

Solight Design delivers first orders of Solar QWNN™to Indiegogo backers. Alice is featured in Hilary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton’s upcoming release ”The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience” published by Simon and Schuster.

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