Lamps Collection Concept Design by Ariel Palanzone is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.
IronLighting· 2023
Lamps Collection Concept Design
Client: Palanzone Studio
A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category
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Verify Award Status for #145901The Design
About Lamps Collection Concept Design
This personal collection of lamps presents an innovative proposal in relation to the conception of lighting objects, which in addition to fulfilling their primary purpose also have a strong sculptural charge that gives them an artistic function and makes them unique. The floor lamp is influenced by kinetic art, so through its articulated and flexible structure the user can direct the light at will. The nightstand lamp resembles a bitten apple in shape, playing here with the metaphor of light as a source of creativity so that the user can feel inspired to use it as a study and reading lamp.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Lamps Collection Concept Design is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Lamps Collection Concept Design is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Lamps Collection Concept Design is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main concept of this product line is "movement", for this reason this collection is called "Fluida". The idea is that these luminaires also provide, in addition to a functional value, a sculptural value in the environment where they will be used.
These products are inspired by the kinetic art of the early mid-20th century.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main focus was based on formal experimentation and materials to ensure that the collection has its own imprint and identity.
I wanted to make these objects functional and visually dynamic at the same time.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I hope to continue advancing with the improvement of the prototypes, expose them and find the right people who want to manufacture them at an industrial level.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to merging kinetic art with functional lighting in the Lamps Collection Concept Design raises intriguing possibilities - could you elaborate on how this artistic influence shaped your design decisions, particularly for the articulated floor lamp?
I always try to find inspiration both in works of art and in everyday situations. In terms of art, I admire many kinetic artists from the Op art movement, such as Victor Vasarely. I also remember an inspiring everyday situation when I was in a grocery store and watching the bags stretch in different and interesting ways as different products were put inside.
The metaphor of light as a source of creativity, embodied in your nightstand lamp's bitten apple form within the Lamps Collection Concept Design, is fascinating - what inspired this specific symbolic connection between illumination and inspiration?
Thank you very much for your insights!The apple has always been a source of inspiration for me because of its symbolic meaning, from its connection with Newton and creativity, to its biblical connotations associated with desire or fertility
How did your background in graphic design influence the sculptural and artistic elements of the Lamps Collection Concept Design, particularly in achieving that delicate balance between form and function?
It has had a decisive influence, since the first thing I do is analyze through pencil sketches how the flat form looks, and based on that morphological analysis I then transcribe it to the three-dimensional plane.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This personal collection of lamps presents an innovative proposal in relation to the conception of lighting objects, which in addition to fulfilling their primary purpose also have a strong sculptural charge that gives them an artistic function and makes them unique.
The floor lamp is influenced by kinetic art, so through its articulated and flexible structure the user can direct the light at will.
The nightstand lamp resembles a bitten apple in shape, playing here with the metaphor of light as a source of creativity so that the user can feel inspired to use it as a study and reading lamp.
The characteristic feature of this collection is the sensuality of the "stretching" of its curved shapes, either concave or convex, generating tensions that give dynamism and innovative value to the pieces.
Regarding materiality, a sensitive proposal has been sought from the use of translucent materials that let light pass through in a diffuse way, which gives the collection a more veiled and mysterious atmosphere. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Floor Lamp: 120 cm hight by 35 cm wide and 25 cm
Lamp for nightstand: 21 cm hight by 10 cm wide and 10 cm deep - Tags
- design,lampsdesign,lampdesigner,artdirection,art,design,interiordesigner,lampdesign,contemporarylampcollection,conceptdesign
- Production Technology
- 3d printing in flexible material
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging factor for this project is to find the right balance between conceptual ideas and technical realization possibilities.
We have always tried to keep as much as possible the strength of the forms of the conceptual design and to bring it to the physical plane as faithfully as possible.
What was always a priority was to maintain the minimalist, sophisticated and elegant essence of this collection of contemporary lamps. - Research
- The research has been very active in evaluating the type of products currently on the market and in finding out a lot about the technical possibilities offered by new technologies and trends in the field of design, such as 3D printing and LED lighting.
It has also made an analysis of the needs of users who are looking for user-friendly products, intuitive to use and with beautiful shapes.
We have also taken into account the impact that these products have on the environment, that's why we have chosen LED lighting in terms of lower energy consumption and therefore less environmental impact.
The material for the 3D printing is recycled to be consistent with this ecological idea.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) - Inspiration
- My inspiration has to do with contemporary abstract sculptures by artists such as Jean Arp and Ernesto Neto.
I am also very inspired by western art, especially Japanese design and its cult of the imperfection of forms to give warmth to the environment. - Project Duration
- This project has been exhibited from August to December 2022 in different fairs, art and design spaces in Buenos Aires.
- Operation Flow
- These lamps are designed to be used in an intuitive way, since they have tactile devices that according to the type of pressure exerted by the user can regulate the intensity and directionality of the light.
- Team Members
- Ariel Palanzone and Alberto Palanzone
- Image Credits
- arielpalanzone.studio ®
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