Rotating Lamp Final Report Part 1

For my final project, I made a lamp shade that rotates from the rising heat of the light bulb from the lamp.  The Aesthetic is Goblincore and Cottagecore.  I generally really like these aesthetics in my personal, everyday life and wanted to have a lamp that sort of reflected that general earthy feel.  I also didn’t want it to be motorized or something else in order to make it dynamic, so I thought about how heat rises and could turn this lamp shade and therefore make it dynamic.

Inspiration:

I had an old lamp in my childhood that turned from the light bulb heat that had a sort of pinwheel-type top and wanted to recreate this top for my lamp as it had worked in that old lamp.

I also really like earthy, natural looking aspects in decorations.  I’m not the best artist but leaves, vines, roots, the colors brown, green, and orange all together felt like the right way to go.  I used thicker paper to form the shade of the lamp.  I colored these sheets of paper with colored pencils and markers in order to give a general, nicer coloring to the shade and to form the earthy designs.

I also had these plastic circles that I cut into triangular slivers to form the pinwheel-type top of the shade.  I used the tacks from the original circles’ connections to attach these slivers to the shade walls and each other at the center.

Furthermore, I added circles of wire to the top and bottom inside of the shade in order to help the shade hold its form.

It doesn’t really like to rotate on top the lamp I’m using right now, but it does fit and sit nicely on top of it and diffuse the light well.  I really like how it turned out and looks, even if it doesn’t really work the way I intended.

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