Rationale:
For this project upcycled utility, my upcycled lamp is a pendant. It is made from JCDecaux poster. Here are my solutions of making this pendant light.
At first, I chose to make a pendant instead of a table lamp because I think pendant can rotate in the air and people need to raise their heads to look at it which can give us more amazing and elegant feelings. Then, I made a lot of research at paper pendant and experienced different kinds of folding and cutting technique. I found cutting lots of equal distance straight lines and folding a half in alternate directions seems to both have a third dimension and pervious to light. It can become flat very easily as well. Thus, this cutting way became the main feature for my pendant light.
I made five pieces of sheets for outer layer but the problem was the globe in it was far away from the outer layer. So I decided to make another three pieces for inner layer to hide the globe and enrich the light.
Another challenge is how to connect these pieces to each other. At first I used the star clips and I found it is not very nice on the light and destroy the paper, so I cut a crack at one sheet and leave a part at another sheet to make itself can insert to the crack. It’s more original and organic. I made heaps of mock-ups to test their accurate sizes.
My cutting diagram shows the 1800mm*1200mm poster can make five lamps. And it still has the 25.4% percentage of wastage. I made a mailing box which can let plug, support and the pendant be flat-packed to fit neatly. In addition, this pendant can be reasonably easy to assemble, disassemble and reassemble.
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i like the way you use the color of the poster and the texture of the light
ReplyDeleteimprovement:maybe you could develop more about the material use, or maybe develop more about cutting and folding techniques on your light.
Your light has a very interesting shape and the light through the red poster is amazing, my only suggestion would be to let more light out the sides maybe by using small holes or more slits.
ReplyDeletei like how you used the colour of the poster to your advantage and the shape of the light. An improvement i think you should consider is designing it so it could add more light into the room. But overall great design.
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