June 2011

Trapeze LED Table Light by Peter Stathis & JOBY

In a week from today (July 5th) I will be in San Francisco starting an internship with the industrial designer, Peter Stathis. I am really excited to be working on some lighting and other projects that are to be getting under way. A lot of my focus this past school year has been on lighting, so spending time at Peter’s studio should be hugely beneficial to me and my own design practice. Peter is really on fire this year; producing some exceptional and award-winning lighting projects like the Horizon Task Light (with Mike McCoy) for Humanscale, and the Trapeze LED Table Light and the Obus Indoor/Outdoor Light in a joint venture with Joby.

I can’t think of a better place for me to be this summer!

This is what the 4 Post Valet would look like when modified with the platforms that were initially designed for shoes.
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Extending the functionality of the 4 Post Valet by including a larger platform for shoes. Doing this makes me think about creating a bookshelf that can clip in at regular intervals all the way up the posts. I think I’ll try a platform with book ends next to see how that might work… In the mean time, here are some renderings of the shoe platforms. I also staggered the places where the clipped widgets on top clip in so that they can rotate freely without affecting each other.

I have used feedback for the current stage of the Glass Dome Lights to come up with a design that is more elegant (or at least less reminiscent of U.F.O.’s as many people have pointed out).
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