Project 2 - Rationale

As all we know, Edison used mirrors to reflect light for saving his mother, and then Edison tried to invent electric light. This was a great intention, and now electric light is so important in human life, and we cannot live without it. Although electric lights become the daily supplies, since the improvement of life standard, that more and more people are trying to get the designed-lights. So what is a good light design? And how it can be? In my opinion, it should be useful for the purpose of illumination, having good lighting effect, and also be the pleasurable sculpture for decoration.

In the project we are have a very good chance to design our own lamp by use JCdecaux advertisement poster. This is an opportunity to learn how to design a good-look lamp, which has amazing illumination effect, use advertisement poster for recycle, improve handcraft skills and learn how to pack the own product. Also designing illuminate is a very abstract work, we cannot only do some sketches, instead, we need to do lots of models for testing how the lighting works and what they really looks like.

On my way to design, I tried to design a pop-up lamp. That was a very interesting process for study varies paper pop-up. Because different way to cut, different combinations of geometric patterns, and different directions to fold will be affect the look of the pop-up. And the reason I chose to design the lamp in pop-up is because the lighting will come through the disciplinary gaps.

For my final work, it is a pendant light. The middle part of it is cylinder with pop-up, and the outer frame is a piece of rectangle by enriching the whole shape of the lamp. I considered about the illuminate effect that the outer frame was wrapping up the middle cylinder tipsily. Through the process of designing this lamp, there were some problems. First the material of the poster is that smooth and very hard to cut. Then is the problem about how to attach the different parts together without using any tape or glue, so here I used metal snaps by sewing them onto the poster.