Flex Multifunctional Lamp by ZhuoYi Fan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.
SilverLighting· 2020
Flex Multifunctional Lamp
by ZhuoYi Fan
Client: Guangzhou Pingtian Crafts Co.ltd
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #89401The Design
About Flex Multifunctional Lamp
Flex is a series of household lamps that includes two table lamps and one floor lamp. Each lamp is made of a solid wood light unit, a neodymium ball, a metal pole and a base. A magnetic connection joins the light unit to the stand and allows the light unit to be turned in any direction. The light unit can also be removed and fixed to other surfaces with magnetic accessories, so it can serve as a wall lamp. A touch sensor in the wooden housing sets three levels of brightness. The wood is coated with wax to keep its natural texture.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Flex Multifunctional 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. Flex Multifunctional 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. Flex Multifunctional Lamp is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Where to Get It
Modern Natural Wood Lighting Collection
We craft innovative lighting solutions combining natural wood aesthetics with modern functionality. Our award-winning collection features flexible table lamps, floor lights, and portable luminaires designed for contemporary living. Each piece showcases premium craftsmanship with magnetic modular design and sustainable materials.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Magnetic attraction and lever principle, Read that few lighting fixtures use natural materials. However, we believe that natural wood is a material that people are willing to touch, and reading lighting lamps rarely have both large-angle adjustment and mobile lighting. Based on the research of existing products and people's hidden expectation of reading lamps, we have made such a design and implemented it in the most direct way.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main emphasis is on connection, angle adjustment mode, and mobile lighting function, especially what is to be realized: a high-power reading desk lamp design can be detachable, movable, rechargeable and upgradeable.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Because it is a series design, more series products will emerge in the future.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Flex Light is a series of household luminaries which each is consisted of solid wood housing illuminant,neodymium ball,metal pole and base.Under the effect of novel magnetic suction structure,the illuminant can be connected with the stand and adjusted in any direction centering on the magetic ball.Besides,the illuminant can also be separated and attached to other surfaces as a wall lamp.It is portable and flexible for daily use.It can be disassembled and assembled.The design structure make it more convenient for packaging and logistics.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Small table lamp:120*340*365mm
Large table lamp: 150*440*490mm
Floor lamp: 270*440*1500mm - Tags
- flexible, omni directional, portable, multipurpose, rechargeable, touch lamp, reading lamp, lighting design, luminaire, led
- Production Technology
- CNC machining and profile processing are adopted in the process.Crafting wood by CNC can solve the precision problem of traditional way and be more effective to reduce the cost.So that can be feasible to make products achieve industrial standardization.The materials used in this product include solid wood, aluminum alloy, polymer battery, magnet, LED module and so on.All have passed the domestic 3C certification standard of environmental protection.Solid wood housing is coated with Belgium wax which helps products completely retain the nature texture and delicate touch.
- Design Challenge
- The difficulty of subversion. Products change from the plug-in electric cable to the wireless charging, from integration to separation,from cold metal to warm wood,from stable and static to mobile.Also, it includes the change of the mechanical connections and electrical connections, and application of magnetic suction with precision and lubrication.All of these need a lot of theoretical thinking,sample test and research.We determined the final proposals present products in minimalist form.
- Research
- Looking at the world famous reading lamp brand,we can see there are many old-fashioned and stuffy products.Maintaining tradition and professionalism is not an excuse for lockout.It has to be changed.For a new reading lamp design,we collect the global product information to analyze market expectation via data downloads and set following goals.Our products need to be friendly,lightweight,innovative,with prospect of intelligent,economical,especially suitable for dynamic lifestyle of young people.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the scene that birds rest on branch,jump and sing happily, rest quietly, and then fly away.With the easily separated structures, this lamp imitates the activity process of birds,which makes the household luminaire more flexible and functional. We select natural wood to develop products for the younger generation.It is light and portable to match the rapid shifts in space and time,which is suitable for free,dynamic lifestyle of the young.We want to create a new user experience of lighting,that is natural, affordable fashion with user-friendly techniques.
- Project Duration
- The project started in December 2016 in Guangzhou,finished structural improvement and circuit adjustment in May 2017,finished all materials test in August 2017.Flex Light were launched on TaoBao Crowdfunding Platform on December 21st,2017.
- Operation Flow
- You can turn on the light and adjust three levels of illuminating brightness by touching the switch which is connected with a touch sensor into the wooden housing.Then,hold the end of lamp body to rotate it in all direction to meet usage requirement.Besides, you can also separate the mobile illuminant from the stand and use it individually.Stick the equipped magnet accessories to other surface,you can attach the illuminant in different surfaces as a wall lamp.
- Patents
- Patented.ZL 2018 2 0146748.6.GUANGZHOU PINGTIAN CRAFTS CO. LTD.2018.
Patented.ZL 2017 3 0455825.7.GUANGZHOU PINGTIAN CRAFTS CO. LTD.2018. - Team Members
- Products are co-designed and developed by the staff of design team of GUANGZHOU PINGITAN CRAFTS CO.LTD
- Image Credits
- Image#1：Zhuoyi Fan ,2018
Image#2：Zhuoyi Fan ,2018
Image#3：Zhuoyi Fan ,2018
Image#4：Zhuoyi Fan ,2018
Image#5：Zhuoyi Fan ,2018
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