Kirolos Eid did not have a network when he arrived in the United States. What he had was a plan.
The Egyptian-born designer founded 8X6 Design Studio in 2021 with a clear-eyed understanding of what it would take to build credibility in a market where connections often matter as much as craft. His answer was straightforward: build systems first, reputation second, and let the work close the gap.
It worked. In the studio’s first year, operating entirely solo, Kiro ran more than twenty projects at once, handling everything from space planning and technical drawings to client coordination and construction oversight. Not because the demand was unmanageable, but because he had designed internal frameworks capable of handling it.
That instinct for structure has shaped 8X6 ever since. Now four years in, the studio has completed over 120 projects across residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and religious sectors. The firm’s footprint stretches across the northeastern United States and California, with completed work in Cairo and projects planned for Dubai, a trajectory that speaks to the kind of deliberate, compounding growth that rarely makes headlines but tends to last.
The design language Kiro has developed is intentionally unflashy. Spatial balance. Clear circulation. Materials chosen for what they do, not just what they look like. It is a sensibility formed in part by his resistance to trend cycles. 8X6 is explicitly not a studio that chases what is current. “Redefining Spaces. Redefining Lives.” is the studio’s phrase, and it points toward a belief in design as something with durational impact rather than immediate effect.
The client list has grown accordingly. 8X6 now works with a range of high-profile private clients, celebrities and public figures among them, who are drawn as much to the studio’s discretion and technical rigor as to its aesthetic output.
With affiliations across Associate AIA, ASID, and IIDA, and ambitions aimed squarely at hospitality and retail, sectors where spatial design demonstrably affects behavior and revenue, Kiro is building toward something with a longer arc than most studios his age are thinking about.
The work is already on two continents. The name is catching up.