Ekisho tabletop lamp - Design Process

Firstly, sorry about all this mix up Mar, the reason why you hadn't seen much process work from me during this project was because i got a bit too caught up with the little nit picky concepts such as the 'joining by heating' concept, and each week i had no solid idea that i felt was worth showing in class.

By about the last week before submission week, i had finally given up on the 'joining by heating' concept and was working on 'snap locking', which didnt go very far for me.

The next idea was trapezoidal prisms stacked up on top of each other to form some kind of upside down section pyramid lamp.

This idea didn't work too well either because of the difficulty i had joining up the sides of the prism.

by this point, i had only one week left and no solid idea, so i was getting a bit freaked out,

Then as i was throwing around some of the offcuts from the trapezoidal prism trying to think of a new idea, i noticed the shape of the offcuts from the prism corners, it was an interesting shape and i was playing around with it, seeing how it worked with the other corner offcuts.

I saw this particular offcut of an icey top mountain and thought about how well the concept of a blue ice crystal pattern lamp would work because of it's simple yet versatile diamond/crystal shape combined with my final JCDecaux poster's primary colour - blue. 

The JCDecaux poster that i had initially recieved as my finals poster was the wrigley's extra professional poster, which the predominant colour was blue. This worked well with the idea of the ice crystal shape as it would be a 'cool/calm' colour.

I laid out the offcut corners seeing how they'd work with each other.

i then modified the shape to be more equal and simplified in a basic diamond/kite shape.

I established that they joined up pretty well to make a column but needed to figure out how i'd make it into a lamp design.

After exploring the shapes a bit more, i started to like the idea of diagonally stacking the shapes up and forming a spiraling tube of diamond/crystals, but it was very difficult to keep supported.

  

After doing a bit of exploration in different ways of supporting the diamond design, i came to a conclusion that i should just make strips made up of 3 diamond shapes connected to each other cut straight from the Poster material. Connecting several of these shapes together in a cylindrical form, it was successful because it looped around and could support itself.

And that was pretty much all the relevant process work behind my design of the 'Ekisho tabletop lamp'.

~Peace out!