- DUALIGHT -
This desk lamp was named DuaLight and was inspired by the platonic solids. The product exploits the duality of the icosahedron and the dodecahedron.
Duality is a property that causes the center of the face of each Platonic solid to be the vertices of another Platonic solid, called its dual polyhedron.
We developed several tests with different materials: leftovers of printed acetate, paper and cardboard.
The final model is a desk lamp consisting of two platonic solids and three types of pieces. The edges of the dodecahedron are made of fluorescent acrylic that reflects light on its edges, and the faces of the icosahedron are made of translucent white acrylic, which produces diffuse lighting. On the inside, the pieces form a sphere-shaped hollow, that is the space used to attach the lamp.
Poster
Designers
Thabata F. Oliveira
Vinícius H. Ladivez
Mathematicians
Maira Kodama
Marília V. Padula
Project
Product design inspired by mathematics
Module
Mathematics, Architecture and Design
Developed at FAUUSP
