Picture: Pollen Lamp by nervoussystem

I have a beautiful mediterranea lamp by cunicode on my desk and we have numerous other wonderful models in our gallery. This weekend I'd like to see how far your creativity can go, so I challenge you to design a lampshade with a surprise. Maybe it's something in the light pattern on the wall, maybe it contains a moving part powered by the heat of the lamp.. Surprise us and win a $25 voucher!

You have until Monday morning 10:00, GMT+1 to come up with your ideas!

How to enter

Model your lampshade, upload it to your gallery, tag it with 'Weekend Contest: Lampshade' and post the link and picture here (upload the image, and click 'Insert image into message body' to embed it in your forum message).

Who wins?

You decide! Visit the model that you like most, and add it to your favorites. The model with the most votes wins.

What's the prize?

Eternal fame! Kudos from the Shapeways team! Riches! Okay, well, the winner will get a $25 gift certificate.

That's all?

Yep, grab a drink, goof around in your favorite modeling app this weekend and have fun!

Bart

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[Updated on: Fri, 01 March 2013 14:25 UTC]

http://shpws.me/npEu
Square kufic calligraphy encased in a circle, housed in a cube.

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[Updated on: Sun, 03 March 2013 17:17 UTC]

Maybe too late and not what you would call a lamp shade ?

But hey, i'm being sick @home so why not design something

I present to you the Led Tube Cube.

This model is insipred by the Dutch artist : Escher
It's a squared shaped tube and the path of the tube stays within the geometric lines of a cube resulting in a lamp with many cool angles, you can insert a led strip and light up any place you like !

3D Render :

Hope You'll like it

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[Updated on: Mon, 04 March 2013 09:44 UTC]

Ok, the first surprise for this lamp is that the three panels look like ordinary ribbed panels complementing the cylinder motif design, however, when the light is turned on a lithophane is revealed. The second surprise is when the viewer walks around the lamp the lithophane image in view changes state from happy to sad and vice versa. This switching image is a result of the frosted ultra detail or Transparent Detail lenticular lenses on the outer panels.

http://www.shapeways.com/model/953961/?li=modelEdit

With a panel removed reviling the back of one of the panels. In this image you see the combination of both the happy mask and the sad mask, yet when looking through the front lenticular lens only one image at a time is seen.

[Updated on: Mon, 04 March 2013 08:59 UTC]

http://shpws.me/npUz

A small minimalist lampshade designed for use with the Sylvania DOT-it LED light.

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my (late) entry: http://www.shapeways.com/model/953971/lampshade.html
When we rotate the top, the side are opening or closing.

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[Updated on: Mon, 04 March 2013 09:45 UTC]

All good stuff

Another image for my entry,



I was trying to get the shadows that would be cast, but the design can be seen

Paul

edit: I inverted the render image - the design is more visable now.

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[Updated on: Mon, 04 March 2013 11:25 UTC]

Qafas







BTW Qafas or "قفس" = Cage

[Updated on: Mon, 04 March 2013 11:52 UTC]