Project 2: peer comments

Cherrie Fillisia: http://cf-indesign.blogspot.com/2011/10/project-2-upcycled-utility.html#comments

Ryan Go: http://ryan-go.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcycling-unwanteds-jellyfish-light.html#comments

Dongwook Kim: http://dongkim926.blogspot.com/2011/10/project-2-upcycled-utility.html#comments

Phunthita Vimolpatranon: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6561537982608082039&postID=2399630397891450658&isPopup=true

Chuming Li: http://laichorming.blogspot.com/2011/10/project-2-poster.html#comments

Project 2: [Upcycle] Lamp Design

Project 2: Rationale

In my pendant lamp I want to celebrate the special gifts bestowed by the Polypropylene material in the JCDecaux poster-ad.

The distinct gifts of rigid strength and generous flexibility the Polypropylene presents in the material itself with given opportunity to emit distinguishable lights in any room or home.

The lamp appearance gave sight to viewers with a show of reliability in its stability to hold, or stand the lamp. The appearance model also demonstrates the humble and yieldingness to manipulation in shaping forms. This power of manipulation gave opportunity to explore the use of torsion in the folding sheets on the side-faces of the lamp.

These bending forms express the playfulness of light and it is interesting to see how light can be seen differently on other forms and objects. The effect of torsion can create shadows, low-reflective lights and because of the printed colours on the sheet the user is able to see the changing strength of light at different angles of viewing.

Because of the nature of shape in the design the unused amount of the poster is moderately wasteful, therefore, sizes and dimension of certain parts of the lamp can be (easily) altered to minimise the waste, as sustainability is also an essential focus in this design. Previously with my initial models the waste amount displays 55%, while I have reduced the portion down to 47%, I believe further waste reduction is possible without costing the brightness of the light.

The lamp design very easy to assemble and dissemble; only require users to place the form adjacent to each other and connect the faces with clips on the inside of the lamp, and then hooking the wired light globe and wiring to respective openings at the top of the lamp.

There are no other materials used besides (very minimal of) metal wire, (several) plastic clips and the polypropylene paper. So recycling this lamp is safe and sustainable.

The lamp is also easy for flat packing into its box with dimension of 78 x 21 x 4 cm. The dimension of the assembled lamp is 35cm tall and 20cm wide. My CAD drawings have given me an idea manufacturing this pendant lamp can produce 5-lamps from 2-PP-sheets, and 4-PP-sheets can allow the manufacturing of 11-lamps.