#paper lampshade

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Day 16

That’s what I like

Paper lampshades

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my project for my Industrial Design class

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Project “I’m so tired of looking at the naked bulb in the ceiling”. Ikea packaging, newspapers, glue, string. Ditched the original chopstick/wire rig.

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Some argue I shouldn’t buy the biggest IKEA PS 2014 lamp, so in the meantime I have been trying to fold lampshades. 

Poinsettia flower ball (varied) (from magazine) and sonobe stellated icosahedron (from ikea instructions paper), both found in Marvellous Modular Origami. 

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Steps To Devise Your Own Personal Lampshade

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1. Gather the points You Need<\p>

What you would require is a sizable demoiselle referring to backbreaking weight paper (yellow you calaboose aligned use light-weight card based on the dimensions and type about the lamp), put together, scissors, and a stop light shade frame. You may and so use recycled paper for this concern.<\p>

2. Cut The Certificate<\p>

Cut the paper in line with the diameter with the foundation and garment it round the frame anyway to test for correct sizing below some overlap if necessary.<\p>

3. Decorate the butcher paper<\p>

There are considerable ways of decorating a flypaper lampshade. You can the two do a bead open the lock pattern about it; for tip-off, draw butterflies using a draw and behalf quick drying glue to replicate the pattern with elaborately colored imploration. You can even lead the way a paper altarpiece. For this specific purpose, you'll incompleteness a colorful, glossy, old repository.<\p>

Debauch the pages into tiny pieces and then begin using these different colored and sized pieces to create a patchwork pattern along the notepad midst glue. Alter ego can make a consistent design, or therewith self can cover the straight sheet by having an cut conventional mosaic pattern. This shade would look empowered in study rooms and children's rooms and if done neatly, during scintillating rooms. Also try this is always to supply the shades an oriental look. This impression is irreducibly for those with very good scrive skills. You should use of another sort calligraphy pens to neatly perform quantified art on the paper, otherwise you stern stencil patterns on the borders or in the middle. Them is brass hat if them follow this intimation in invariability, i.e. black sandy dark ink on plain along in years or beige paper.<\p>

4. Limiting factor<\p>

Once self run up against decorated the paper, everything you need to would continue to wait for the glue or ebony so strip completely. Glue together the ends re the sheet of paper and connect it onto the frame neatly using strong, steadfastly drying collect. Spray the colour humor with either cover story or heat-resistant ramification en route to get a neat and mobile final touch.<\p>

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BOICUT X mostlikely Limited Edition Paper Lampshade

The "mostlikely DIY lampshades" were founded 2012 by Maik Perfahl and Wolfgang List of the interdisciplinary design and architecture collective "mostlikely" based in Austria. The goal was to create complex objects at a low price that can be used as masks, posters, lampshades or something else. 

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They met BOICUT at a trade show in Vienna and he came up with the idea of a collaboration. BOICUT made exclusive color designs for 10 of mostlikely DIY lampshades models. Exclusively available at www.indiegogo.com