Upcycled material lighting designs

As a modern day designer, if I am to create new consumer products, it is my responsibility to source materials as ethically and sustainably as I can.

To create a product using only virgin material greatly detracts from its usefulness to humanity as a whole.

Here I am exploring using industry waste to create light designs.

One such method is to use offcuts from sheet metal profile cutting processes/ businesses to create high end products using material that would otherwise be down-cycled.

I'd like to fill the "empty space" in repeated sheet metal cutting jobs.

Here I will document the process of designing and creating laser cut sheet metal lampshades to address this issue, as well as offering lower-cost, beautiful products to consumers and businesses.

I'd like to incorporate movement and the idea of nature-inspired kinetic sculptures where I can.

The first item in this product range is the lotus lampshade, a multi-petaled cylindrical lampshade that can be opened and closed to let more or less light through.

Intended to be compatible for both tabletop, upward-facing applications and hanging, downward-facing applications.

The concept is to rotate the inner ring by hand in order to adjust the degree of expansion.

Currently the mechanism is in the prototyping stage.

The second design features a fixed lampshade, with petals also radiating outward. By employing a steel construction, this shade can be used to contain and direct infrared light from an IR light bulb effectively.