Pluto Task Lamp by Heitor Lobo Campos is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.
GoldLighting· 2020
Pluto Task Lamp
Client: Gantri
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category
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About Pluto Task Lamp
Pluto keeps the focus firmly on style. Its compact, aerodynamic cylinder is orbited by an elegant handle perched over an angled tripod base, making it easier to position with its soft-but-focused light with precision. Its form was inspired by telescopes, but instead, it seeks to focus on the earth instead of the stars. Made with 3d printing utilizing corn-based plastics, it is unique, not only for using 3d printers in an industrial fashion, but also eco-friendly.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Pluto Task Lamp is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Pluto Task Lamp is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Pluto Task Lamp creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
With Pluto I wanted to design task light that could have a dynamic form while still being manufactured with FDM 3d printing. My main inspiration for its silhouette were telescopes, specially due to their interesting but stable forms.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I wanted to explore the negative space in its form, to express more "character" in its design. The handle that orbits the main light shaft is one of the key features in completing its zestful outline.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
For the near future it will still be sold and manufactured by Gantri, with their innovative digital manufacturing for designer lighting.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Pluto keeps the focus firmly on style. Its compact, aerodynamic cylinder is orbited by an elegant handle perched over an angled tripod base, making it easier to position with precision.
Pluto is designed for the office, study or bedroom, with soft-but-focused light that is perfect for writers, illustrators or anyone who is particular about where-and-how their light source meets their working surface. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Height 317.5 mm x Depth 254 mm x Width 247.65 mm
1.3 Kg
Bulb: 9W A19 LED Bulb (90+ CRI, 800 Lumens, Soft-white).
Switch: Dimmable switch on-cord. 100-120V US 2-prong plug.
Electrical component certified by SGS for UL and CSA. Manufactured at the Gantri Factory in San Leandro, California. - Tags
- 3d printing, brazilian design, space, focus, PLA
- Production Technology
- Pluto was manufactured by Gantri, a company based in San Francisco. It utilizes corn-based plastics. Making it not only innovative, for using 3d printers in a industrial fashion, but also very eco-friendly.
- Design Challenge
- In order to make the design viable for FDM 3d Printing, we had to test out and split it into various interconnecting pieces that were later assembled together to form the final product.
- Research
- We worked on developing a complex form, full of negative space while still facilitating the printing and assembly process.
- Inspiration
- Pluto was inspired by telescopes, which use tripods and dynamic but stable forms. But instead, I sought to design a light that focuses on the earth instead of the stars.
- Project Duration
- The project started as an individual project from March to the end of June 2018 and was developed alongside Gantri's engineering from July 2018 to January of 2019.
- Operation Flow
- Pluto is equipped with a dimmable LED bulb that is regulated by a switch attached to its power cord. The amount of light being cast can be controlled to the user's preference.
- Image Credits
- All images: Gantri Inc
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