Iron Moon

Iron Moon is a project developed during the subject of Product Definition and Representation of the master’s degree.

It is an articulated lamp made mainly in steel. The combination of its parts allows mobility in the vertical and horizontal axis, giving rise to a variety of positions and lighting effects.

Type of project Master’s Project

Team Individual work

Project manager Alessandro Calogero

Duration 4 weeks

Brief

A lamp for Flos

The proposed theme was the design of an articulated table lamp, paying particular attention to its proportions, ergonomics and practicality of use. To make the project more interesting, the designers had to choose a real company to target and focus the following activities in that direction. Flos was born more than 50 years ago, believing in the design of luminous objects that would ignite generations of dreams. In the company’s origins, designers conceived light as a material with which to express new ideas and illuminate unexplored emotions.

Development

Many of the Flos table lamps employ a type of indirect lighting, using some kind of reflector or polished surface that reflects the light, while the source of origin is hidden inside the lamp itself.

That is why I decided to try to apply this same form of lighting in an articulated lamp, where the spotlight would be fixed and the reflecting surface would be the moving part.

Once I defined the type of lamp I wanted to create, I went on to make some sketches of six different versions in order to explore different shapes and mechanisms until I reached the final concept.

Concept

This is a table lighting device with indirect and reflected light. It has a polished metal reflector with a slightly concave shape. This piece can rotate 360º on its axis. The body, formed by two curved metal sheets, can also be oriented on the lamp base. The base acts as a support and houses the bulb inside. The electrical cable has a length of 190 cm, with dimmer switch, which guarantees the ON/OFF functions and the regulation of the luminous flux 10-100 %.

Technical Solution

The body of the lamp is formed by two curved metal plates glued to each other, forming a cylindrical shape in the center that fits the base and allows rotation with respect to the vertical axis. The axis on which the reflector rests is fitted between the two plates of the body, and allows a 360º rotation.

To avoid noise and wear due to friction, teflon cylinders are placed both on the reflector axis and around the support surface of the base.

Lighting Effects

Depending on whether the light is projected on the concave or convex side, the light tends to be concentrated or scattered, which is why the different orientations of the reflector make it possible to achieve a wide range of lighting effects.