Part 1:

Group work

Remaking the Tizio Lamp was our first task, we were divided into groups and were handed cardboard, foam board and wooden sticks to complete the task, in addition, we were handed glue guns and tape.

The biggest struggle with the building process was to make joints that could both move and hold the structure in place at once. We achieved that quality by creating tension between the wood (the joint) and the leg itself and then adding a nut to hold it in place. This was done by applying a layer of tape on the wooden piece and forcing the hole, in the leg, over it.

We divided the work and finished before time, this resulted in a few mistakes, like the upper leg not being long enough and the head of the lamp being a little sloppy. But it did mean that we had time to make details like buttons, a fake cord and detail holes on the surface of the lamp.

Part 2:

Individual work

The second task in the project was to redesign the Tizio lamp. It could be anything, as long as it was inspired by the Tizio lamp in one way or another. So the first part of my process was to brainstorm products I might find interesting.

From here I sorted out the, in my opinion, most interesting/challenging ideas. So I took out the bench (Green page 2) and the potholder (Red page 1). But where the bench had challenging joints, that I already knew how I was going to make, the plant holder had a shape and a mechanism that I still hadn’t figured out how to do. So I chose the plant holder in the end.
I then started with the first problem at hand, the shape. To figure it out I made a prototype.

Now that I had a model of the shape, I could go into depth about the technical aspect of the “wires” that should hold and stabilize the pot.
After consulting with our tutor, Jason Nelson, I decided to draw inspiration from Gimbals. And create a prototype to illustrate and understand the principle.

From here on I had enough to start on the more detailed drawings, that I wanted to make, to showcase how I imagine the product to be.

To show the pot and joints of the product I made a detail drawing, that should explain the concept. My aim was to create a potholder, that could be put into a sideways position, without the plant tumbling over.

I then added shadow to the product drawings to give them a finish.