Yale's Center for Engineering Innovation and Design wanted a sweet, secular holiday experience.

Screens throughout the CEID became Looking Glass-style windows showing a confectionary mirror of the room around you. And just like Santa delivering presents overnight, we had only one day to put it all together.

A reusable design system translated the building's Brutalist shapes into candy counterparts, working across multiple rooms and surfaces.

For one evening, Yale's engineering students reflected on their year in something considerably sweeter than concrete.

Unity, Lens Studio, ZBrush, Procreate, and a slew of AI tools were used to bake this up.