HUE
Project Duration: 5 weeks
Fall Semester 2025
A simple introduction to product design
develop a battery-powered lamp that explores different forms and light reflection. Explore how light works alongside acrylic, as well as developing an understanding of internal components and user interaction.
Form Inspiration
Focused heavily on curves, working to bend light and play with different intersecting planes. Lots of research was done on acrylic, and the way light travels through different colors.
Lamp Product Teardown
Deconstruction of a preexisting lamp from Ikea, taking note of the overall form, internal structure, and fit tolerances between components, as well as battery and button placement.
Initial Thumbnail Sketches
Initial concept sketches explored form, proportion, and the interaction of planes to direct light. Rapid studies tested how acrylic surfaces reflect and diffuse illumination.
Further Concept Development
Further concept development focused on refining geometry through rounded edges, intentional 90-degree transitions, and bent piping to guide the overall structure. Acrylic sheet elements were incorporated to strategically reflect and redirect light.
Early Prototyping
Initial 3d Print including basic circuitry, and reference materiality. Gathering an understanding of proportions in order to begin making necessary design changes.
Exploded View
Showcasing the form, battery placement, interchangeable acrylic sheet mechanism as well as additional storage for different colored acrylic in the base of the lamp.
More renderings coming soon...
