Nopales Lampe by Sebastian Morales and Tiri Kananuruk is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award i Bronse in Produktteknikk og Teknisk Design Competition Category.
BronseTeknikk· 2024
Nopales Lampe
by Sebastian Morales and Tiri Kananuruk
Client: Morakana
A' Design Award i Bronse Winner in Teknikk Category
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About Nopales Lampe
Nopales er en modulær lampe som leveres flat som et kretskort (PCB) og enkelt kan brytes i biter for hånd. De sammenlåsende delene klikkes deretter sammen for å transformeres til en vakker 3D-kaktus. Inspirert av meksikanske landskap, kan den lekne designen monteres på dusinvis av forskjellige måter og kan til og med vokse ved å kombinere flere kort. Denne Nopal lyser ikke bare opp rom med et mildt skjær, men skaper også en personlig forbindelse ved å invitere brukerne til å bli medskapere i sin egen lysende hage.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award i Bronse
Nopales Lampe er vinner av A' Design Award i Bronse, en høyt prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles enestående design som utmerker seg ved kreativitet, oppfinnsomhet og skarpsindighet. Bronsevinnere er rikt dyktige og påfallende kreative gjenstander som bekrefter designernes store erfaring, fantasi og ressurssterkhet. Nopales Lampe forventes å være en høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt gjenstand som er bemerkelsesverdig profesjonell og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Bronse, rommer beste praksis innen kunst, vitenskap, design og teknologi og utmerker seg ved sin omtanke for detaljer. Nopales Lampe tilfredsstiller behov på en strålende måte, berører ønsker, sjarmerer følelser og vekker nysgjerrighet.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Nopales is a modular lamp designed to be playfully assembled from a single Printed Circuit Board. Unlike typical PCBs that are flat and hidden inside enclosures, Nopales subverts this industrial nature to create a delightful object that is meant to be touched, bring joy, and evoke life into our spaces. It can ship flat as a postcard and can be hand assembled into your own nopal. Grow you cactus by combining cards.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Variable dimensions
Flat: 84mmx125mmx5mm
Assembled: 50mm x50mm x100 - Tags
- PCB, Lamp, Nopales, Cactus, Modular, Mexico, Art, Garden
- Production Technology
- Printed Circuit Board, LEDs, Microcontroller, CR2032 Battery
- Design Challenge
- The project looks deceptively simple but a lot of research has gone into the interlocking connections. Even when PCB manufacturing is a mature industry, there is no way to connect two boards in the ways we were searching for. Current solutions require bulky mechanical components "connectors", or to be solder. We have tried multiple approaches and worked with the PCB manufacturer though iterations. Orienting components in different planes, plating surface edges, special routing, springs, and more.
- Inspiration
- Nopales was inspired by the landscapes of my Mexican upbringing and our passion for developing creative hardware. We wanted to reframe Printed Circuit Boards (PCB)s beyond their technical existence, to expose the material's beauty and transform it into something tactile, delightful and captivating. We spent months working with manufacturers to create a simple and efficient way to interlock the PCBs both mechanically and electrically. Nopales circuit is designed to shine for months or even years.
- Project Duration
- The project started early 2023 and exhibited at the HeadHi Lamp show in Brooklyn NY from March until July. A new updated version was shown at PioneerWorks Software For Artists Day in November.
- Operation Flow
- Nopales starts as a flat PCB that breaks apart by hand and can be interlocked into your own Nopal (cactus), then you can press the button to cycle though multiple brightness levels. It has an auto sleep timer to prevent draining the battery in case you forget to turn it off.
- Team Members
- Sebastian Morales
Tiri Kananuruk - Image Credits
- MORAKANA LLC
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