Lexilight Shaqada Ugu Weyn: Nalka Akhriska by PAD Design Studio

Lexilight Shaqada Ugu Weyn: Nalka Akhriska by PAD Design Studio is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award in Naqshadeynta Alaabta Iftiinka iyo Nalallada Competition Category.

NaxaasIftiin· 2021

Lexilight Shaqada Ugu Weyn: Nalka Akhriska

by PAD Design Studio

Client: Lexilife

Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award Winner in Iftiin Category

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The Design

About Lexilight Shaqada Ugu Weyn: Nalka Akhriska

Qoraalka Buugga: Lexilight waa nal akhris loo naqshadeeyay si loo taageero dadka qaba dhibaatada dyslexia. Nalku wuxuu isku daraa iftiin dhaqdhaqaaqa (pulsed) iyo mid la beddelbeddelay (modulated), kaas oo tirtira muuqaalka muraayadeed ee akhristaha dyslexia-ga qaba uu arki karo. Akhrintu waxay noqotaa mid ka fudud, ka dheereeya, oo muddo dheer la sii wadi karo iyadoo aan indhaha la daalin. Badhan koowaad ayaa u beddela u dhexeeya habka Lexilight iyo iftiinka caadiga ah, iyadoo laba potentiometer ah ay hagaajiyaan dhaqdhaqaaqa iyo isbeddelka iftiinka si u gaar ah isticmaalahaba. Madaxa nalku wuxuu ka samaysan yahay ABS oo leh dhammaystir rinji bir ah, faafiyaha wuxuu ka samaysan yahay PMMA, cagtana waxaa laga sameeyay Zamac. Qaabku wuxuu xasuusiya saaxiib daryeel leh oo ku foororsan buugga, sida waalid u dhaqmi lahaa.

The Recognition

About the Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award

Lexilight Shaqada Ugu Weyn: Nalka Akhriska waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf sare leh oo la siiyo naqshado aan caadi ahayn oo lagu garto hal-abuur, hal-abuur cusub iyo caqli. Guuleystayaasha Naxaasta waa shaqooyin xirfad buuxda leh iyo hal-abuur yaab leh oo xaqiijiya khibrad weyn, male-awaal iyo kartida naqshadeeyayaashooda. Lexilight Shaqada Ugu Weyn: Nalka Akhriska waa walax la filayo inay noqoto mid aad loo tixgeliyo, la ixtiraamo oo la jecel yahay, xirfad cad leh oo hal-abuur cusub leh. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award wuxuu ku darsadaa hab-dhaqanno ugu wanaagsan farshaxanka, sayniska, naqshadaynta iyo tignoolajiyada wuxuuna ku fiican yahay dhawrista tafaasiisha. Lexilight Shaqada Ugu Weyn: Nalka Akhriska si fiican ayay u buuxisaa baahiyaha, taabataa rabitaannada, soo jiidataa dareenka kicinayaanna xiisaha aqoonta.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Lexilight, which combines both pulsed and modulated light, erases the mirror picture that a dyslexic person sees. This person is now able to read easier, faster and longer without eye strain. The strength of this design is what designers call the acceptance effect. Dyslexia is a handicap people use to hide, so designers make this lamp a desirable object for children, teenagers and adults. When children see it as a little figure, teenagers see a stylish lamp and adults, a nice piece of art and product design.
Dimensions & Packaging: Widht 270 mm x Depth 185 mm x Height 300 mm
Tags: lighting, reading lamp, dyslexia, lexilight, PAD, table lamp, made in France
Production Technology: Lexilight head is made of ABS with metal painting finishing. Light diffusor is injected in PMMA. The foot is made with ZAMAC and is anodized in a post process. The full lamp is assembled in France in a factory in which 100% of worker are handicaped people.
Design Challenge: The hardest part was to make that lamp desirable for children between 6-10 years but also for teanagers and adults. It was a very difficult to build a design language which could fit a school ecosystem and also a business office or a teenager bedroom.
Research: At first, we decided that more than helping dyslexic children to read, we would like to give them the Will to read. So we focus on when and were kids like to read, and make some design proposals according to. Then we present each concept to children from a school next to our studio and discussed with them on how to improve it. After few weeks the table lamp concept was finalized. Then we make prototypes and we launch a 100 users test. We included remarks about ergonomic, style, colors into the final version which has been tested by 120 children over France during 2 months and validated by them and their parents.
Inspiration: Lexilight is a reading lamp, so it has been design to look like a benevolent little friend which stands up on the desk bent over the book, like parents could do when they teach how to read to their kids. The lamp foot edges/lines have neither a start or an end point, as a metaphor of what reading is: a never ending story.
Project Duration: The project starts in Paris (France) on November 2018 and finished in Saint Malo (France) in October 2019.
Operation Flow: Lexilght is a reading lamp which can be used at home, school or office, wherever people need to read. As many kids need it, Lexilight is delivered with a transport bag which allows them to bring it from home to school each days. When Lamp is installed user have to push on the main button to choose between 2 modes: Lexilight mode or normal light. Two potentiometers allow the user to adjust the light wave by acting on the pulsation and modulation to adapt to each individual.
Team Members: Philippe ARNAUD
Alexandre BERNELIN
Quentin BOUTZ