Quintessence Spectrum Series 便携式台灯 by Jeffrey Geiringer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 3D打印成型与产品设计 Competition Category.
铜3D打印· 2024
Quintessence Spectrum Series 便携式台灯
Client: Quintessence Lighting
A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 3D打印 Category
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The Design
About Quintessence Spectrum Series 便携式台灯
光谱系列是一组限量版便携式台灯,灯罩采用三维打印的镂空格栅结构。每盏灯均由参数化流程生成,因此每一件的轮廓造型与格栅纹样皆不相同。灯罩以再生PLA材料打印,并使用专门编写的机器代码,从而呈现出干净利落、精准细腻的格栅线条。灯座的造型令人联想到旧时的烛台,可握持其立杆随手提取。这款电池供电的台灯通过触摸灯座上的小旋钮实现开关与调光。每一盏灯仅生产一次,并附有真品证书。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 铜奖
Quintessence Spectrum Series 便携式台灯是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Quintessence Spectrum Series 便携式台灯将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Quintessence Spectrum Series 便携式台灯出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Spectrum Series is a limited-edition series of rechargeable table lamps featuring a never-before-seen type of lattice shade. The edition of 100 lamps is created using a parametric ‘object flow,’ resulting in a unique silhouette and lattice design for each lamp. Furthermore, each shade is printed in-house using fully custom g-code to ensure a flawless, clean lattice. As with an art practice, each lamp of the series will only be produced once and includes a certificate of authenticity.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Each lamp varies in WxD, but they are all 353mm Height. The shades vary from around 90mm W x 73mm D at the smallest to around 190mm W x 154mm D at the largest. The bases are all 110mm W x 110mm D and account for 238mm of the Height. All the shades are therefore 115mm Height. Naturally, in cases where the shade WxD is smaller than the base, the base WxD will be the assembled product WxD.
- Tags
- 3D printing, creative lighting, merging art + design, lattice lamp, limited edition design, 3D printed lamp, lattice, emerging tech, gcode, parametric design
- Production Technology
- Spectrum Series lampshades are created out of recycled PLA on a custom Voron R2.4 3D printer using regular FDM technology. The real technical challenge comes from the lattice shape of the shades; I have developed an entire software stack in Grasshopper for Rhino to generate these parametric lattice form as well as the G-code that runs the printer. This allows for exceptionally precise printed lattices with clean lines and no messy parts, virtually impossible to achieve with traditional slicers.
- Design Challenge
- I developed this project from scratch using my own ideas about lattices and the ways they interact with themselves to produce scintillating visual effects. It's not as simple as making any warped lattice and putting a light inside; only specific configurations of the lattice elements will produce the necessary visual interference. Not only did I need to produce the software to print the lattices, I needed to test many different lattice types before arriving at parameters for the final results.
- Research
- I have conducted some experiments using lamps from the Spectrum Series in order to determine the impressions they give people. This involved instances of walking around busy nightlife streets carrying a lamp, as well as bringing a lamp to an outdoor music festival. My data collection consisted of tracking passerbys' reactions. The lamps were head-turning, but very few people will strike up conversation about such a thing. I think this approach was valuable and uncommon but not a complete study.
- Inspiration
- Ever since I first experienced 3D printing, I have been driven to create objects that can only be made using this technology. The Spectrum Series is an example of that: a non-solid lampshade, where the bulb is blocked not by a solid piece of material, but many tiny struts that, in its ideal form, never allow the viewer a direct glimpse of the bulb. Lattices with this much variability and style could never be produced until the advent of 3D printing, and that is what inspires me.
- Project Duration
- Quintessence: Spectrum Series builds on work I've done with lattice printing since June 2021, with intensive programming and design conceptualization work commencing in September 2022. My original concept for a lattice lamp was first realized circa 2014, just as a preliminary prototype. The project is based in Hong Kong, and is ongoing.
- Operation Flow
- Spectrum Series lamps are fully portable, battery-powered with around 20hr battery life, and have a base that is designed to resemble an old-style candlestick holder for a bit of a throwback feeling. A user may also carry the base by its stem, which includes a convenient wiggle shape to hold as well. Notably, the lamp is touch-activated at a small silver knob discreetly included on the base, and the light may be dimmed by touching and holding the knob, to dim down from full and up from dimmed.
- Image Credits
- All materials: Jeffrey Geiringer and Clever Machine Limited, 2023-2024.
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