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Control ( Luminaire design）

Ya Gao

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At my undergraduate stage, I found that I was interested in some superstitions, folk customs, or social phenomena in China. I hope these interesting things can be integrated into product design. In my opinion, every work is a medium for me to tell stories.

At my undergraduate stage, I found that I was interested in some superstitions, folk customs, or ...

Parents should care for their children, but what if this “care” becomes crazy?

It will become a doorknob lock that has been removed, a room with a camera

installed, or clothes that are restricted to wear. Their crazy desire for control

exposes their desperation, dependence, and their children’s helplessness. Out

ward appearance and secret control this light tells a story of this situation.

Final work

This is a lamp, which looks like a person from the front. The lamp body is made of metal.

General introduction

This is my final product, which is a lamp controlled by magnetic switch. I want to show the phenomenon 

that parents have a strong desire to control their children through this lamp.

The face of the lamp has raised lines, which makes the whole face clearer and more distinctive.

Face display of lamp

I try to make people's faces look melancholy as much as possible to show 

that children are very sad about this situation.

Turn off the lights and turn on the lights by rotation.

Function and interactivity

In order to re-emphasize the strong desire of parents to control. I made the following design: 

the light will only turn on when I turn 

to the side that my parents think is right. 

If I turn to the back, that is, the side of 

On the back are some clothes patterns that parents don't like. The method of metal etching is adopted to achieve the effect.

Back demonstration

Regarding the choice of patterns, I first looked up some photos of clothes that my parents were not satisfied with on China social software.

Through investigation, I found that the 

clothes that most parents object to are 

cooler clothes, with exaggerated lace, 

which can't cover the stomach and arms 

well.

Research and process

Manufacturing process of metal lamp body

Manufacturing process of metal lamp body

Finally, in order to unify, on the front, the lower part of my lamp, I intend to use the same method as the face production.

Metal etching process

Back pattern making

When thinking about the method of making the back pattern, I finally chose the method of metal etching. Because I made a metal fan in this way in unit 2, and the effect is very beautiful. So in unit 3, I decided to continue to use this technology.

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Control ( Luminaire design）

Parents should care for their children, but what if this “care” becomes crazy?It will become a doorknob lock that has been removed, a room with a camerainstalled, or clothes that are restricted to wear. Their crazy desire for controlexposes their desperati...

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