Spotlight On: Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Projects 2015
2nd Feb 2016
Recognized as one of the world’s leading design schools, The Design Academy Eindhoven is renowned for its impressive annual graduation show that serves as a compass for the future of product design. And when it comes to lighting concepts, it doesn’t disappoint. Here are 5 of our favorite spotted at October 2015’s edition.
Roger Semple’s ‘Moonlight’ design harnesses the light from the torch
function on a cell phone and, using only a few simple forms and
materials, transforms it into a bedside lamp. The corner of the cell
phone was simply slotted into the ceramic base, where the light from the
phone was beamed upwards and onto the adjustable clear dome and its
brushed aluminum disc that was captured and reflected the light and created a
directional beam.
Photo Credit: Copyright: Design Academy Eindhoven
Photographs: Femke Rijerman
Sanne Schuurman’s sculptural Eclipse light objects were made from a
single sheet of folded metal. Using a single cut to fold the metal, the
lamp was lit from within by LEDs.
Photo Credit: Copyright: Design Academy Eindhoven
Photographs: Lisa Klappe
The springboard for these brightly colored, multi-tiered pendant
lamps by Simone Post was a drawing created by a seven-year-old child.
Part of a wider series of objects inspired by the playful creativity of
children’s drawings, the Childlike lamps were made up of several
translucent shades layered together.
Photo Credit: Copyright: Design Academy Eindhoven
Photographs: Lisa Klappe
Marta Sif Ólafsdóttir’s Fish on Dry Land furniture project was
conceived as a way of using the skills present in the Icelandic fishing
town of Ísafjörður. Inspired by the town’s boats and fishing gear, the
furniture production starts at the local metal workshop, stopping by the
net-knitting factory, then to a local artist for assembly.
Photo Credit: Copyright: Design Academy Eindhoven
Photographs: Lisa Klappe
Fabian Zeijler’s Pūrificātum desktop and floor standing air purifiers
doubles as a lamps whose light can be adjusted from a cooler white for
work to a warmer yellow for relaxation.
Photo Credit: Copyright: Design Academy Eindhoven
Photographs: Lisa Klappe