Ed Palisoc and Hugh Brownstone are the team behind Helium | Design Lab.

They love what they do.

Hugh is a Webby award-winning YouTuber; photographer; creator of the Streets of New York street photography workshops (now expanded to London, Paris, Berlin & Tokyo); and an optioned screenwriter. He is a life-long Leicaphile, and both shoots and owns a PILE of them, including the Q3.

Ed has been a Registered Architect for more than 25 years, who WOULD have been an industrial designer if the coin toss had gone the other way. Nonetheless, he’s always been creating and developing product ideas since he was young, and never gave up the dream. He's also an avid photographer, a Leica enthusiast and owner of a Leica Q3.

They met through their mutual love of the art and the gear, became fast friends, and what began as a lark ("hey, what would WE want in a grip for our Q3s?") morphed into an actual product that both of them realized was too good to keep to themselves.