Unream 燈 by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 白金獎 in 三維打印設計 Competition Category.

白金三維打印· 2020

Unream 燈

by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

Client: MIT HCI Engineering Group

A' Design Award 白金獎 Winner in 三維打印 Category

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The Design

About Unream 燈

Unream係一盞用多物料體素3D打印技術製作嘅燈。燈嘅表面覆蓋住柱狀透鏡，呢啲透鏡係連同色彩內容一齊打印出嚟嘅。Unream喺唔同觀賞角度會呈現唔同顏色，所以當人行過嘅時候，件物件就好似顯示緊一幅郁動嘅影像咁。呢盞燈喺日光之下係一件擺設，夜晚就係一個光源。高度係220毫米，闊度係100毫米。透過運算工作流程為每一個體素分配物料特性，令自由曲面上都可以實現光學紋理。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 白金獎

Unream 燈是 A' Design Award 白金獎得主，這是授予真正卓越、優雅和宏偉設計的極具聲望的認可。白金獎得主是創造的奇蹟，是智力創造力極限的見證，展現出其設計師無與倫比的專業精神和天才。這些設計被期待成為定義一個時代的美學、造福社會、並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術界限的最負盛名的作品。Unream 燈展現出超凡脫俗的卓越水準，以其有益而寶貴的特質毫無疑問地讓世界變得更美好。Unream 燈是一件贏得 A' Design Award 白金獎的作品，它喚起慾望，啟發人心，令人愉悅，並迸發出巨大的喜悅。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Unream is the first 3D printed object that displays dynamically by itself. With the most advanced multi-material voxel printing technology, we create 'dream-like' materials that used to exist only in the digital world. Covered by lenticular lenses, Unream is a daytime artifact and night lamp revealing dynamic colors in different viewing angles. With Unream, we reimagined the relationship between human, space, and objects by expanding binary material presence to dynamic material experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: Height: 220 mm * Width: 100mm
Tags: 3D printing, Multi-material printing, voxel printing, lenticular effect, lighting design, dynamic material, material interface, illusory material, optical textiles
Production Technology: Most of the material is a single layer of a separate entity that only exists uniformly on a product surface. With Unream, we break this inertial thinking by embedding information into three-dimensional matter (voxel) and assign different material properties to each voxel in multi-material printing. Designers can use our computational workflow to create object interfaces with various material distributions that can display unique material expressions.
Design Challenge: Structural textures are extremely hard to be applied on a free-form model using 3D printing. With our workflow, not only structural textures but also optical textures can be applied on any 3D surface. With Unream, we've developed a computational workflow that can assign different material properties to each voxel in multi-material printing.
Research: Unream is one of the products designed with "illusory material": a MIT research about 3D printing lenticular effect. The lenticular effect people can create, and the quality of optical aberrations is highly restricted by existing manufacturability in optical lens and printer resolution. Normally, the making of lenticular sheet and content images are separate and handled by different people. With multi-material 3D printing, we can design the optical lens together with the image content, experimenting with different shapes and depths of the lens, surface form, and even the transparency and hardness of the image content. At the product/object level, it is possible to apply the lenticular effect on any form, manipulating the optical properties of any object surface.
Inspiration: There are increasing conversations around interactive and responsive materials, most of them require additional medium like electronic input. We want to create a new material organization that responds directly to user intervention or the environment. With multi-material 3D printing, we envision a future where designers can manipulate color, texture, and reflectivity of materials freely, creating objects with unique optical expressions that can be never achieved with other methods.
Project Duration: The project started in June 2019 at MIT and finished in February 2020 at San Fransisco.
Operation Flow: When walking pass the object, it looks like a digital screen with ambient animation.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng, 2020
Team Members: Designer: Jiani Zeng
Designer: Honghao Deng
Advisor: Axel Kilian
Advisor: Stefanie Mueller
Image Credits: Jiani Zeng