1, 2, 3

1,2,3 is a relevant exploration of the lockdowns during the pandemic, where I wanted to investigate how people were affected by their residential spaces and the changing seasons. The three dominant concepts; light, indoor foliage and colour psychology, are all cohesive factors that contribute to a positive environment and impact on mental well being.

 

I was drawn to the teardrop aesthetics of the product by a growing emotional response to the developing shape during the iterative design process. I have taken inspiration from spatial artists and interpreted their ideas in product form.

 

The outcome of this project is a hanging bedside installation – calming in its appearance and promoting the need to nurture. The acetate baffles create coloured light-trajectories– giving a sense of animation and plants grow beneath the light in the teardrop container. The product is personalised by choice of coloured acetate and interactive by tilting the baffles. The coloured baffles in my model, blue and yellow, were chosen for their soothing properties and when overlapped create a refreshing green. Photography of the model has used natural light to replicate a realistic setting.