A·Light
A folded sheet, a hinge, a gestureA lamp you assemble yourself. Two pieces of folded steel, a wooden hinge, a textile cable. The lamp arrives flat, ships in a box the size of a book, and opens into shape with the help of a printed flyer. The hinge is the mechanism: it lets the user decide how much light spills out and where it lands.
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The two folded sheets pivot around a wooden hinge. Closed, the lamp is a wedge, light spills only forward. Open, it becomes a tent, light pours down. Every angle in between is a different room.
The flyer is part of the product.
Six steps, three folds, no special tools. The instruction sheet was designed alongside the object, not after. It uses the same visual language as the lamp itself.
Cut, fold, paint, cure.
The hinge is the only moving part. Solid oak turned to fit the bend radius of the steel sheet, allowing the two halves to pivot smoothly.
Both halves laid out after the second coat. The texture comes from the curing process, sprayed at workshop scale rather than industrial.
Two angles of the same piece. The textile cable was chosen specifically to break the rigidity of the steel and tie the object back to the hand.
Then I asked: what if the shade itself was the waste?
V2 is the pendant version of A-Light, developed during a biomaterials course. The shade is built from spent coffee grounds bound into a translucent composite. The light passes through the material and turns it warm.