Saturday, January 28, 2012

Designing a Desk Lamp

Hey, I'm back! Over my last winter break I was splitting some wood from a plum tree that we had to cut down in our yard and found that once split, the grain of the wood was surprisingly pretty and colorful. This really inspired me to design a desk lamp because I really needed one for my apartment and after reading and looking at design blogs for years, I was itching to really design something myself!

The wood was primarily hand carved out of plum. The lamp part, I recycled from an old broken desk lamp from my freshman year and attached it all with some epoxy.

Total cost of this project, $4.55 for the epoxy ;)

Desk Lamp Design Project from Gerry Mayer on Vimeo.