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The shape of the light looks heavy and complicated, but delicate at the same time. The layers are contradicting with each other as it is facing different side, but yet it is successfully gathered in one harmony. These ‘contradicting’ layers also create nice shade as the light managed to get out of the lamp through this space. And when the light is on, not only the shades come out but the colour from the poster on the back also peek out and thus creating a very nice colour and shades. I put the light bulb at the centre so that the light could be distributed to the whole lamp. It’s also nice to see that in several spots when it is near the light source, the material begins to show it’s transparency .
I’ve avoided folding techniques in the making process because the material is pretty thick thus it’s hard to fold and hard to make a crisp line. I decided to use cutting or slicing techniques and tried to produce a lamp with waste as minimum as possible and with less part so it is easy to assemble and to flat pack. I arrived at making this lamp with only 1 flat piece of paper joined by nuts and bolts.
The particular poster (Cowboys & Aliens) was chosen because I found it beautiful as it has nice colour gradation throughout the whole poster. I managed to capture the beauty of the colour in my lamp, which consequently has 2 major colours like the poster, blue and brown. These colours blend well as each colour is complement to each other and one colour is not stronger than the other. Those 2 colours are also in balance as they have the same level of gradation, which is captured beautifully when the light is on.
Great work sister! I really like the way how you play around the different thicknesses of the strips and the arrangement of the strips as well. It makes the lamp very harmonious. I would suggest you to make one more layer to cover up the light bulb to make less bright.
ReplyDeleteI like how the cut out strips fell down in really elegant and organic way! Also, i love how the overall shape with the strips makes this unique shadow feature which is wonderful. In order to make it improve, I think you can improve the top bit such as covering up with another layer to make the light spread out as well as making this incredible shadow.
ReplyDeleteCherrie!! I love it, especially when it's being turned on during the night, the lamp creates really night shadows and the colour of the shades really blends in nicely and balance. the improvement you may do is how to join the parts to make the light bulb even more invisible
ReplyDeleteoverall, GOOD JOB :D
*BTW, sakit perut nih LOL
Great care and detail design. The light comes out nicely from the lamp. Your looks little bit drapey and heavy that is feeling I get. So I think you could create a sense of airy look to your lamp.
ReplyDeleteThat looks amazing, especially your heroshot poster, i feel like it belongs somewhere where it would be fully appreciated.... maybe the operahouse. Does the light from your lamp actually project your structure or is that just done on photoshop? maybe you could work on a similar design but maybe hide the lamp fitting as i can still see a glimpse of it.
ReplyDeletereally amazing! the shadow is come out so pretty.and blue and brown are blend really well like you said each colour is complement to each other. may be you could make the light bigger, it will be more gaps of each layer.
ReplyDeletei really love you design!
Great work, the form definetely has expression emphasised through the contrast between the light and shadows. In terms of improvement the only one i can find is probably the visibility of the light where more material may be used to cover it
ReplyDeleteamazing job Cherrie! i can't believe that it was made from a piece of paper, if i was not seeing your design journey. excellent cutting skills and good tried to use different thickness strips these are what you did so good in project 2.
ReplyDeletein my opinion, the top part of your lamp should be in better shape, although it's a pendant lamp.
thanks for all your comments n inputs people! i will definitely consider your improvement suggestions :)
ReplyDelete@luke - yup the shadow is projected from the structure of the lamp, it wasn't from photoshop..it's pure a photograph and i just put the text on ms word.. lol im not even using photoshop this time, apparently we can use microsoft word to make poster as well lol