Circular Design
Beacon
A customizable lamp made from upcycled byproduct materials byproduct from business to reduce their environmental impact.
Timeline: 4 months
Team: Solo
Role: Market Researcher, Product designer, and Fabricator
Problem
Businesses generate predictable waste streams at scale, materials destined for disposal that are simply missing a design. By designing at the point of disposal, we can redirect thousands of pounds of material into new products.
Pain Points:
Business product waste at scale
Waste has the potential be repurposed
Creates compounding environmental harm
How Might We
Transform waste streams into raw materials for new products.
Solution
Allows users to personally customize its form, resulting in a one-of-one lamp for each person.
Customization: Users can heat the acrylic in hot water and bend it by hand, shaping it without tools.
Lower Cost: This removes the cost of manufacturing unique forms while creating an engaging, hands-on experience.
Material Exploration
These characteristic made it really effective as a lamp as light could diffused and the sheets would durable and last longer then clothes sade that can stretch and tear.
Malleability: When heat is applied it can bend into nearly any shape.
Lightweight Easy to handle, transport, and assemble.
Transparent: Dims light that shines thought create a warm ambienace.
Market Reseach
Most last are either cheap or cool both rarely both.
Expensive Lamps
Unique forms need complex manufacturing processes
Costly tooling and materials
Cheap Lamps
Mass Manufacture at scale
Made for average taste
