About

FutureBright Studio is the design practice of Ray McGreal, a creator working at the intersection of architecture, environmental technology, and poetic industrial design.

Bio

Meatpacker. Truck parts delivery driver. Architecture student. Pyrolysis plant builder.

Based in the west of Ireland, Ray builds artefacts that expose and celebrate the invisible systems shaping our world — fire, pressure, carbon, flow. His work synthesises engineering precision with poetic instinct, drawing from lived experience building a commercial-scale pyrolysis plant, and extending into a growing body of sculptural, functional, and conceptual works.

Each piece — whether a carbon-infused bench, a rain-harvesting tower, a kinetic model, or a door handle made from pyrolysis char — embodies a deeper logic. Ray calls these process sculptures: physical and digital expressions of transformation, energy, and flow. These aren’t metaphors — they are literal fragments of working systems, distilled into tactile, poetic forms.

At the heart of FutureBright Studio is the belief that design can be both useful and meaningful — that even the most technical objects can be more than simply functional. Ray’s work invites us to see machines not as cold infrastructure, but as gestures — intimate, expressive, and alive.

Ray is currently focused on running and maintaining the pyrolysis plant he helped build, while experimenting with new ways to work with the biochar it produces.