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Rhea Soman
Rhea Soman

Design Lead, Lumiere Design Labs

Lumiere Business Solutions

Rhea Soman is a designer who works in integrating research and design projects into holistic solutions. She started a Design Lab in 2018, incubated within Lumière Business Solutions, a 23-year-old research agency started by her mother, Deepa. A core team of in-house designers and an extended team of associates make up this vertical. Lumiere works seamlessly on client requirements and has delivered solutions in space design, branding, packaging, multi-sensory experience design by leveraging IOT, robotics and VR. Lumiere has been able to create a robust model to build on the core Lumiere consumer understanding and research capability in early stage innovation.

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Talkin’ ‘bout My Generation

Finding my place in the family business
Finding my place in the family business

Rhea Soman never thought that working at Lumiere, the research firm her mother Deepa founded, would be automatic. Rhea talks about how she began to see a place for herself, and is now playing a role in the firm's evolution. Deepa talks about what she and the firm are learning from the experience