The design brief required the creation of a task lamp that incorporated an element of surprise. A light touch activates the counterweight, swinging the lamp open and lighting up at full extension. Using New Zealand Macrocarpa, concrete and steel my two team members and I milled, cast and machined the materials to produce Poise.
Throughout this process we used:
- Drawing
- Sketch modelling
- Digital fabricaton
- Casting
- Drawing
- Sketch modelling
- Digital fabricaton
- Casting
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TOMAS LOPES - INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER - PŌNEKE (WELLINGTON) - PROBLEM SOLVING SINCE 1998