![]() (If anyone can find a picture of this box online, you are better at Google research than I…) A lover of polyhedra, I kept that box as a bedside table for a couple of years, before eventually laying it to rest in recycling. It came in a brown corrugated dodecahedron-shaped box. It was a “Star Light” designed in 1998 by Tom Dixon, made by the apparently now-defunct Eurolounge, purchased at Totem, a store in New York which also no longer exists as such. I was given a modernistic, sputnik-type hanging light for my birthday a few years back. (Both lamps in the light of day, after the fold…) ![]() Think of the beauty of simple shapes, of the way in which the geometry is everywhere present in design, and then think of the natural progression of simple mathematical forms, from the cube to the square this enables us as designers to create infinite possibilities by starting from the simplest point of departure! … A Comet lamp, beneficent and sparkling, like champagne, based on the universally attractive laws of geometry, from the starting point of a simple, well-made cardboard box” “I created the Comet lamp… while looking at the DesignBox and thinking of the technical complexity of the cardboard object with such a simple appearance. His “Comet Lamp” (above right) was made from reconstructed Veuve Clicquot “DesignBoxes” as part of their “Out of The Box” promotion: Packaging Lamp: While the economic constraints of carton construction & shipping may have led Dixon away from polyhedral packaging for his own products, he has recently gone in the other direction and made polyhedral lamps from rectangular boxes. Respect to the Op-Art masters of the 60’s who designed even more complex graphic patterns without any help of a computer…”Ģ. The first versions of this self-assembly lamp shades were launched in Milan as part of the Tom Dixon Factory. “We designed a functional packaging range and a series of different patterns for Tom Dixon’s new ‘Etch Light’. ![]() The rectangluar box for the “Etch Light” was designed by Mind Design: In fact, the only polyhedral package for a Tom Dixon lamp that I’ve ever seen was the dodecahedron-shaped box for his discontinued “ Star Light.” ![]() Lamp Packaging: As a designer of polyhedral lamps, Tom Dixon is no slouch in the area of complex symmetries, but the packaging for his Etch Light (a deltoidal icositetrahedron) is a standard rectangular box. ![]()
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