Donut Lamp by Xingchen Pan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.

BronzeLighting· 2021

Donut Lamp

by Xingchen Pan

Client: Bruce Tao

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category

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The Design

About Donut Lamp

Donut is a desk lamp designed for bedrooms and reading areas. The lamp has no visible switch. The shade is shaped like a donut and also serves as the control. The lamp is turned on by placing a hand on the shade and pushing it clockwise. Further clockwise movement increases the brightness, while counterclockwise movement lowers the brightness or turns the lamp off. The outer layer of the shade is made of linen, which softens the light and creates a warm atmosphere. The lamp measures 15 cm in length, 15 cm in width and 30 cm in height.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Donut Lamp is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Donut Lamp is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Donut Lamp splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Image Analysis

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Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is a desk lamp design with no external switch. It is unique in appearance and function. Its light bulbs are donut shaped. It is a very rare look. As for function, the most different part about it is that it shows no obvious switch. Its switch is integrated into the donut. Users simply need to put their hand on the donut and push it gently to switch the lamp on and off. Users also can use this way to adjust its brightness. That is what makes it unique. This unique design can give the user a better experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: length 15cm x Width 15cm x Height 30cm
Tags: Light, Lamp, No switch, cute, different, Beautiful, Revolve
Production Technology: Desk lamp bulb outer layer uses linen to make a lamp shade. This kind of desk lamp is more applicable in the bedroom, cloth table lampshade is elegant and romantic, can build warm and romantic living atmosphere for the bedroom. The desk lamp light that makes lampshade with cloth is relatively downy, build bedroom atmosphere easily, still can protect our eyesight at the same time, cloth art lampshade is convenient clean change.
Design Challenge: This is an innovative design with a complex internal structure, and the machining qualification rate is the biggest challenge encountered by this project.
Research: Desk lamp is the product that every family user will buy, have huge market. According to the survey, most lamps are priced below 30 euros. Now the shape of the desk lamp is more fixed. A unique and affordable lamp has great market value. Desk lamp basically is Illumination action, facilitate reading, study, work. As the ceaseless development of desk lamp appearance, modelling, desk lamp has far exceeded the value of desk lamp itself, the desk lamp has become an artwork.
Inspiration: Just like the name, we got this inspiration from the shape of the donut. Donut is a very popular dessert for many people. We think the shape is very suitable as a lamp because of cuteness. When I was eating the donut, I realized it is a circle shape. Meanwhile the adjustment switch of major desk lamp also is circular. So we combined the switch with the donut to create this design.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2020 in Milan and finished in February 2021 in that place, and was exhibited in China in February 2021.
Operation Flow: First, users connect the donut to a power source. Second, put the hand on the donut and push the bulb clockwise and the lamp will light up. Third, continue to push clockwise to increase the brightness. Last, if you want to lower the brightness or turn off the lamp, push the bulb counterclockwise.
Team Members: Design leader: Qihao Zhou, Designer: Lin Ye
Image Credits: Creator (Bruce Tao / Designer)