Design Brief

Lighting can be used to create a mood, illuminate a dark area, ‘decorate’ a room with patterns of light, and can offer reassurance to young children to help them feel safe at night or to help them to fall asleep.

You are required to Design and Make a mood lamp to be used in a specific room (of your choice), in a house or boarding house or you can design it as a gift for someone you know who would like a mood lamp.

To improve your design understanding you will consider designing the lamp for someone else. Whoever you choose to design for is called the 'User Group'.

Design Restrictions

Restrictions are set so that solving the design problem is made easier for you and that you all work using the same constraints. The format of the lamp you will be making is made up of 2 main elements - a base and a shade. Examples of lamps made by year 8 students, following this format can be seen at the bottom of this page.

• The materials that you will be using to manufacture your lamp base are Acrylic, Light Gathering Acrylic, and a choice of a light or dark Hardwood. The base comprises of 4 layers and you must prioritise your base design to have a creative shape that makes use of the 4 layers of material.

• The finish of your Lamp must be of the highest quality, showing off the beautiful wood grain and the polished edges of the Acrylic. It is this material combination that can look stunning if ‘finished’ well.

• You must join (solder) the electronic components provided to make a working Lamp circuit. The circuit must fit in the cavity shape shown in the middle of the drawing below.

• You can make the Lamp ‘Shade’ using any material or manufacturing process available to you in the DT department this can include laser cutting and 3D Printing but must not exceed 3 seperate pieces.

• Your Lamp must have no sharp edges.

• Your Lamp must not exceed the dimensions (sizes) given. These are shown in the drawings.

User Groups

A User Group is a selected market of people that you would be aiming to design your lamp for. It is good practice to identify the User Group you are designing for, before you begin your project as this will help you to generate suitable design ideas that meet the needs of your selected 'client'. Choose one of the ‘Suggested User Groups’ below that you would like to design for, or you can think of your own if there is not a suitable one. You must remember your User Group when you start to generate your design ideas e.g. they should be appropriate for the user!

Electronic circuit diagram

Your lamp will work using an electronic circuit and you must design around the components of the circuit to ensure your product will work. In this lesson you will learn how to draw out the Lamp Circuit Diagram.

All wires should be drawn as straight lines and you should ‘label’ the components to show the positive / negative connections.

Design Ideas

These are your first sketches communicating your first ideas about how to solve the design problem that you have been set.

Remember that your Initial Design Ideas should be quick sketches.

These photos are the process of my design ideas

Client Interview:

Interview users or other relevent people to help them develop their initial ideas.

Development is the process of trying to improve your initial idea to make sure you have considered all design options and details before you commence manufacture. Development ensures a thorough design process has been followed and gives a client options within the same design style.

Development

3D Final Design/ Perspective drawing

CAD - Computer Aided Design

These are the picture of my final design being structured in onshape. The process of making the shape wasn't easy since I need to try and get the feather as the shape I wanted, but I try using sketch in onshape to make the shape.

Manufacture of LampMaking process

This is the parts of my lamp design and as well as my wood base which i sand with sand paper to make it a smooth circle, in able for it to fit with others parts of the lamp easily.