ORION

My favorite of my new designs for work is ORION. Below are some of my initial sketches, then photos of the actual samples that are being introduced at the Dallas Market Center in just a few days. The cool thing about these fixtures is that the lights rotate up or down, depending on the look/functionality that you want.

I love lamp?

Here are my favorite lamps that I designed that were introduced last month at the High Point Market. These fellows are all "lifestyle contemporary", I'd say. You know, for the modern person who doesn't want their friends to think they are too weird...


QUADRATIC

DECA

PLANAR

The 2-light DECA table lamp is my favorite. But, I do take great pride in the incredibly small boxes that both QUADRATIC lamps fit in. You'll notice that there are some large-ish finials at the connection points of PLANAR... those got revised, but I don't have updated images.

thumbnails

It's been a while since I updated this, because I have been busy going on interviews and an amazing trip to Alaska. I've accepted an offer so my handmaking/Etsy/starving artist life is about to change. But anyway, here are some recent sketches... they aren't anything special, but this is the typical way I begin developing ideas

lamp geometry

I've been making slow progress on my flat-pack lamp project. Within a few days I should have a working prototype.

new lamp idea

I've been wanting to design a lamp with an integrated shade for a while now, but the idea just never came to me. Finally I had an idea and a few days ago I started making models.
As far as what I design to sell on Etsy, I like to keep everything flat-pack and easy to ship. Lately, I've been wanting to create a volumous form using just two-dimensional planes. So, at this point I had a form that looked more or less like a rocket. Initially I was envisioning the light bulb being somewhere near the top, but still contained inside of the ribs. Here's a view showing how everything fits together:

I thought a fabric covering would soften the light a bit, so I stretched Nylon over the form:

Obviously I needed a more opaque Nylon to soften the light, but it was a start. I still didn't feel quite right about the form. I was excited about it and felt it had great possibility, but it wasn't quite there yet. Eventually I decided that the form I created would make an excellent base, but I was missing an upper shade (more like a traditional table lamp). So, the top portion of the lamp could be covered with a fabric to diffuse the light, and the base could remain open.

fun with FDM!

Recently I designed a lampshade to be 3d printed. I love the idea of using this technology to produce forms that would otherwise be impossible to make. When setting out to design this lampshade, I did research on light itself. I hate to just design something pretty without any thought behind it.

Anyway, here's my little write-up about it:

"In 1803, English physicist Thomas Young passed a beam of light through two parallel slits in an opaque screen, forming a pattern of alternating light and dark bands on a white surface beyond. Young’s “double-slit experiment” proved that light travels in waves. The PARTICLE DIVIDING LAMP was inspired by the wave-like reaction of light when encountered with slits too small to pass cleanly through."

The lampshade is comprised of two concentrically articulating shells that rotate open to project light beams onto surrounding walls or closed to softly diffuse light through the shade.