Take In a Little Light Reading With This Book-Inspired Lamp

Take In a Little Light Reading With This Book-Inspired Lamp
Lumio is a laser-cut, accordion-folding, book-shaped lamp that packs a versatile range of functions into a stylishly compact,Solar Camping light battery-powered housing — and it owes its creation to a surprising source of inspiration.The tiny tome emits 500 lumens (equivalent to a 40 watt bulb) and can shine for eight hours on one charge of its rechargeable lithium-ion battery. It's not quite a gadget and not a typical light fixture, but its unique design has captured the imaginations of design aficionados and generated over $300,0000 in pledges on Kickstarter with more than two weeks to go.Its creator, Max Gunawan, is a former architect who had worked on high-profile projects like the Gap's flagship store in China, but after becoming increasingly frustrated by having to manage schedules instead of making structures, he quit to work on his own product designs.
"I've always been fascinated with objects or architecture that can be transformed into multiple shapes and serve multiple functions," he says. "I was inspired by this one particular project called the Folding Bridge in London by Thomas Heatherwick.Fruit knife There's something so unexpected to see, what appears to be an urban sculpture unfolding into a bridge.Vibrating feeder"His first draft was ambitious and architectural in scale. "I was developing a concept for a modular folding home that you can fit into a compact car," says Gunawan. "Unfortunately,Kashgar tours I didn't have the capital that I need to develop a working prototype for the folding house." He had read The Lean Startup and started thinking about developing a minimum viable product to test his folding theories.
It turned out the sketchbook that he was using to collect his ideas became the source of inspiration he was looking for. "It dawned on me one day that a book would be a great way to package this idea of a collapsible light fixture," says Gunawan. "It's compact, has that visceral connection with the idea of a ‘book that illuminates' and has that unexpected element of surprise."Gunawan visited his local TechShop and started prototyping. He learned how to laser-cut wood (sustainably harvested, of course) to make it flexible, embedded magnets to provide a hidden latch, and prototyped the bellows that make up the "pages" of the book and act as a lampshade.LED lamp Paired with some stunning visuals and options for a variety of eccentric uses in the Kickstarter video, the project has become a huge success, at least as far as fundraising is concerned.