Samantha Whitmore: Week 8 Lamp

Samantha Whitmore Winter ELDS 205 Lamp 

For the concept of my lamp idea I wanted to make something that was very abstract. While watching Professor Scott create an abstract lamp from such a simple shape I wanted to give it a try and see what i could come up with myself. I knew when designing it I wanted a lot of light to be able to be shinned through and so I have few cuts with large gaps.

I started with creating two sphere shapes and using the control points to shift them around the space till they made a funky type shape. I continued to boolean union them together, while also boolean union differencing the cylinder in the center. I also added in two smaller spheres to cut out from the center making for more empty circles. I used the intersect tool and copied my cylinder cutting object to them to create the cuts and finished by extruding the surfaces of the pieces.

My material was left at a natural wood color to be able to reflect to my finished lamp design. On the horizontal pieces I used wood planks giving it that grainy look, but also keeping a dark shade to it. Then the vertical cut pieces are a cherry wood. Which also have a grainy look to it but still differentiating from the horizontal pieces.