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Sha Yang's Magpie Table Lamp emerges from darkness as a luminous sculptural presence, its biomorphic form abstracting the elegant silhouette of a magpie in mid-perch through sophisticated reductive…

Magpie Table Lamp by Sha Yang, Kaifeng Zheng and Yang Ma is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.


SilverLighting· 2022

Magpie Table Lamp

by Sha Yang, Kaifeng Zheng and Yang Ma

Client: Shanghai Art and Design Academy

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category

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The Design

About Magpie Table Lamp

Magpie is a table lamp shaped after a bird with folding wings. The lamp changes between three positions through a single contact button at the base of its cylindrical body. In the first position the wings stay folded and the light is small and soft, which suits use beside a bed. In the second position the head rises and the light becomes brighter, which suits office and study use. In the third position the wings open fully and a wider area is lit. The body is made of metal with a gold finish, and the shade is made of a translucent material.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Magpie Table Lamp is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Magpie Table Lamp is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Magpie Table Lamp is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The table lamp has three forms. The first form is the folded magpie homing. the light source is small and mild, does not hurt the eyes, and is also the most space-saving form. It is suitable for small night lights at the head of the bed in the bedroom; The second form is a vertical head stop as if looking around to take off, which can illuminate a larger area of space and is suitable for office space; The third form is the take-off spread wings and fly high, which is high and energetic.
Dimensions & Packaging
The diameter is 85mm, the total height is 410mm, the base height is 300mmm, the length of the head and tail of the bionic bird is 330mm, and the length of the wings is 170mm
Tags
Intelligent,Light, Magpie, Interactive, Bionic
Production Technology
It is manufactured by model printing technology.
Design Challenge
1)Modeling of morphological structure.
It is difficult to find a smooth and beautiful curve and beautiful proportion. It is also one of the difficulties to show three different forms, especially the gap bite tightness during wing spreading.
2)Form display problem.
There are three different forms of“Magpie Lamp". How to make the three forms change smoothly without affecting the lighting is a big problem.
3)Integrated circuit problem, circuit series problem.
There are three forms of " Magpie Lamp". Under different forms, the circuit direction is also different, but there is only one switch. How to make the perfect splicing of internal circuits has become the biggest challenge of the project.
Research
Magpies blend beautifully with nature. The purpose of this lamp is to show this beauty. The research purpose of this product is to study how to commercialize and materialize Magpies in nature.
Inspiration
As a symbol of happiness, magpie implies hope and happiness. Spread its wings with a positive attitude and full of vitality and passion. The combination of magpie and spreading wings not only has beautiful moral, but also does not lack life vitality. The simple form, placed in the living room, bedroom or various scenes, has no sense of conflict.When users see it, they will feel positive energy when using it.
Project Duration
The project was started in July 2021 and completed in Shanghai, China in January 2022.
Operation Flow
It has a cylindrical body with a contact button at the bottom. Touching it can automatically switch the fuselage to another form. When you press this contact for the first time, the magpie lamp turns on in the first retracted state; When the contact is pressed for the second time, the magpie lamp automatically switches to the second vertical state, and the light becomes brighter; When you press the contact for the third time, the magpie lamp automatically spreads its wings and raises its head to spread its wings. Such dynamic modeling makes the desk lamp more scientific and technological, and can illuminate a larger area of space. Whether it is office lighting, study lighting or bedroom lighting, it has a good effect. There is a battery inside the fuselage for continuous lighting. It is made of metal and painted in gold. It is hard and luxurious. The lampshade is made of translucent transparent material, which will not cause discomfort due to direct injury to the eyes. This product is a product that meets the needs of a variety of people, both practical and ornamental.
Patents
Shanghai Art and Design Academy
Team Members
Sha Yang
Kaifeng Zheng
Yang Ma
Image Credits
Shanghai Art and Design Academy

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