With a strong foundation in manufacturing and industrial design, the founders established Koncept in 2002 with a vision to create innovative products for homes and businesses. Since then, the company has built a distinguished line of modern LED lamps and lighting elements, thoughtfully designed for discerning consumers.
Koncept’s designs have not only been embraced by homeowners and professionals but have also gained national and international recognition. Over the years, the company has expanded its product offerings to include portable lanterns, wall sconces, modular architectural lighting, and more—continuing to push the boundaries of lighting innovation.
As designers originally from Hong Kong, we are influenced by both American culture and our diverse heritage. This perspective allows us to blend Eastern and Western design philosophies—precision and creativity, minimalism and warmth, tradition and modern innovation. Along the way, Koncept became a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), further reflecting our commitment to our heritage.
Despite the tremendous success of our award-winning designs, innovation never rests at Koncept. We remain driven by the same goal that inspired us from the beginning: to create groundbreaking products that set new industry standards and, most importantly, enhance lives by making them safer, simpler, and greener.
Calling Peter Ng a minimalist is stating the obvious. A designer with over 30 years of experience, Ng has mastered the art of merging functionality and style.
A native of Hong Kong, Ng studied in Texas in the early 1970s. He returned to Hong Kong in late 1970s, but emerging advances in technology and the aesthetics of his U.S. environment stayed with him. He threw himself into designing, spending every waking hour at his design table in these pre-computer and pre-software days. Peter spent the next 40 years as an industrial designer for various firms and companies, designing a number of products and processes. By the year 2000, Ng was responsible for over a hundred product designs and earned the reputation as a premier designer. His greatest success, however, was yet to come.
In 2002, with Peter's help, his sons Kenneth and Edmund established Koncept Technologies to promote designs under its own brand. For Peter, it was the realization of a long-time dream, and the design team trio was born.
It was the perfect fit. Growing up and watching their father at his design table, both Kenneth and Edmund developed a love of design and product development. Both are engineers by training – Kenneth at USC and Edmund at Stanford.
The Ng Team purchased a factory in Asia and based the company's headquarters in Southern California. After designing several successful electrical products, the Ng Team began to research the rapidly emerging field of LED technology. In 2003, Peter began working on a new lamp idea: to use tiny, long-lasting LEDs for standard lighting. Without the need for a large incandescent bulb, the design could be sleek and minimal. In 2004, Peter created the first generation of the Z-Bar LED Desk Lamp. The response was immediate and impactful. When the second generation Z-Bar was introduced, Time Magazine named the Z-Bar LED Desk Lamp one of the Best Inventions of 2007. In Europe, Z-Bar was selected as a permanent display in Germany's Die Neue Sammlung museum as one of the best innovations of the 20th/21st centuries. Design awards continued to pour in from all over the world.
Since this first minimalist design, Peter and his sons have moved forward with their lighting design ideas. Following the Z-Bar, the Ng Team introduced various desk lamps, floor lamps, wall sconces and pendants to commercial success and industry accolades. The lamp designs have been embraced by consumers and sought after by the commercial furniture industry for office integration, not only for their sleek profiles, but also for the tremendous energy savings through the use of LEDs. To date, the Ng Team's LED lighting designs have won over 50 international design awards.
If less is more, minimalism must be success. The Ng Team, especially Peter, has known that for years.