AIRPLANE MODE
AIRPLANE MODE
useless furniture
Year
2024
Services
PERSONAL PROJECT
Category
PRODUCT DESIGN
Role
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PROJECT BRIEF
Design a desk piece for yourself, which would really help you in your purpose of being a designer.
Ambition
AIRPLANE MODE
This project is an academic exploration of light as narrative — using form, material, and symbolism to build a myth around a fictional lost artist. through speculative design and visual storytelling, it examines how lighting objects can transcend function and become vessels of memory, myth, and mystery. the central artifact — a glowing lamp — becomes both a relic and a character,
Concept
COCNEPT
The Prince of Egypt tells the story of Moses and Rameses, brothers torn apart by destiny.
Moses, once a carefree Egyptian prince, discovers his true heritage as a Hebrew and chooses to fight for his people's freedom.
Rameses, heir to the throne, struggles to uphold his father’s legacy and sees Moses’ defiance as a betrayal of their bond.
Moses’s hope was a quiet but relentless current, a belief that freedom was not granted by kings but born within every soul. Against this stood Rameses, whose fragile ego clung to the illusion of power, mistaking dominance for strength. His defiance was not rooted in conviction but in fear of being seen as less than the legacy he was forced to uphold. Yet fragile egos cannot withstand the weight of true vision — and in Moses’s unshaken faith, the hollowness of Rameses’s pride was revealed. What endures is not the brittle armor of ego, but the enduring force of hope that dares to free
FRAGILITY
From this narrative, we got inspired to embody the contrast between fragile ego and enduring hope through light. The warm, ambient glow reflects calm strength and introspection, while the soft diffusion symbolizes the delicacy of pride giving way to resilience. In its illumination, the lamp becomes a metaphor for liberation, revealing how true strength emerges not from control, but from the quiet persistence of faith and vision.
IDEATION
FRAGILITY
The lamp’s form draws from the interplay of rigidity and breakthrough. The layered, symmetrical panels echo the imposing order of Egyptian architecture — structures built to project power, tradition, and permanence. Yet through this rigidity emerges the central glowing core, cutting forward like a wave breaking through stone. This contrast embodies Rameses’s fragile ego, clinging to illusion, and Moses’s enduring hope, carving a path beyond it. The light’s gentle diffusion softens the severity of form, symbolizing how resilience and vision can dissolve false grandeur, revealing freedom at the heart of struggle
PROTOTYPING
FRAGILITY
The lamp’s form draws from the interplay of rigidity and breakthrough. The layered, symmetrical panels echo the imposing order of Egyptian architecture — structures built to project power, tradition, and permanence. Yet through this rigidity emerges the central glowing core, cutting forward like a wave breaking through stone. This contrast embodies Rameses’s fragile ego, clinging to illusion, and Moses’s enduring hope, carving a path beyond it. The light’s gentle diffusion softens the severity of form, symbolizing how resilience and vision can dissolve false grandeur, revealing freedom at the heart of struggle
BUILDING DIGITAL
FRAGILITY
The lamp’s form draws from the interplay of rigidity and breakthrough. The layered, symmetrical panels echo the imposing order of Egyptian architecture — structures built to project power, tradition, and permanence. Yet through this rigidity emerges the central glowing core, cutting forward like a wave breaking through stone. This contrast embodies Rameses’s fragile ego, clinging to illusion, and Moses’s enduring hope, carving a path beyond it. The light’s gentle diffusion softens the severity of form, symbolizing how resilience and vision can dissolve false grandeur, revealing freedom at the heart of struggle
MANUFACTURING
FRAGILITY
The lamp’s form draws from the interplay of rigidity and breakthrough. The layered, symmetrical panels echo the imposing order of Egyptian architecture — structures built to project power, tradition, and permanence. Yet through this rigidity emerges the central glowing core, cutting forward like a wave breaking through stone. This contrast embodies Rameses’s fragile ego, clinging to illusion, and Moses’s enduring hope, carving a path beyond it. The light’s gentle diffusion softens the severity of form, symbolizing how resilience and vision can dissolve false grandeur, revealing freedom at the heart of struggle
FINAL PRODUCT
FRAGILITY
The lamp’s form draws from the interplay of rigidity and breakthrough. The layered, symmetrical panels echo the imposing order of Egyptian architecture — structures built to project power, tradition, and permanence. Yet through this rigidity emerges the central glowing core, cutting forward like a wave breaking through stone. This contrast embodies Rameses’s fragile ego, clinging to illusion, and Moses’s enduring hope, carving a path beyond it. The light’s gentle diffusion softens the severity of form, symbolizing how resilience and vision can dissolve false grandeur, revealing freedom at the heart of struggle
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