let there be light!

These are photos of an iteration/concept and final of my light from last year. I was initially set on creating a lampshade consisting of one continuous band of accordion-folded paper with simple mountain/valley folds throughout to give shape and direction. This was working beautifully but I found that there were limitations to the language of the form -- the material that I had to use (thin bristol paper) was not rigid enough to hold an exact form. In a couple of my concept proposals, I made a paper sculpture consisting of simple rectangular components which were manipulated with creases in order to give depth and movement. I followed this design through and finalized it with the last photo above. The hard edges made the shadows dynamic, and the resulting form had a vortex effect.