LightMe! is a graduation
project by product designer Panni Pais made at Moholy-Nagy University of Art
and Design, Budapest. The design is a three-piece lamp family, which due to
their numerous possibilities for variation fulfil a number of different functions
as lighting objects. The forms of the collection were inspired by a bunch of
kindling-wood used when setting fire. That traditional image was translated into a language of
today’s functional objects.
Owing to the unique design
of their legs, the individual pieces of the collection each represents an
individual character and they endorse a variety of functions accordingly.
The name of the one having
the shortest legs is Buddy – referring to underdeveloped shoots of plants and
of course to being your good friend at the same time. Woody’s name – being the
most whimsical of the three with odd legs –, comes from wood, and associates
with the likewise eccentric character
of Woody Allen. The third wooden lighting piece has the thinnest and longest
legs, and therefore bares the name of Twiggy – beside referring to wooden
twigs, the name itself is well-known of former British super model, Lesley Lawson.
The design of the legs
influences the modes of different uses – we may hang them on door handles, sit
them on tables, lay them on shelf edges or even stuck them into the ground
outdoors in our garden. Next to the possibility of a varied use in space, we
may manipulate the luminary affect of each object by turning its light source
set within a plexi tube. The source of light is an LED strip, which works via
both an electric cable or power batteries, thus making it easier for us to move
the lamps and to pile them indoors or outdoors around the house.
Packaging is an important
part of the design, the symbolic story of setting fire starts there. We may
pull out the wooden lighting pieces – bound by their own cables – from a
simple, labelled paper cylinder much like we would do with a bunch of
kindling-wood. As soon as the pieces are assembled and turned on, each wooden
piece becomes a glowing branch itself.
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