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Project Four :

Ribbon lamp  

+ Senior thesis

 

My goal is to highlight steel’s raw beauty, strength, and durability, celebrating its value not only as an industrial staple but as a material meant to be experienced. Through this piece, I wanted to encourage touch, inviting people to engage with steel in a way that feels human.


Experimentation of form


I began this project with an abstract approach, asking friends to hold sheets of paper in different forms and orientations to observe how it made people feel. Watching them interact with the material revealed the importance of human touch and presence, which ultimately shaped the direction of the design.

After committing to a form, I focused on embedding touch into the figure itself allowing the user to rotate and flip the piece. This interaction creates different orientations and changing lighting conditions that encourage engagement. The base acts as a pedestal supporting the fixture.