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[Mario_Hugo]

Starting a new store called Three Quarter. I've been using senior project time to design identity, website, etc.

Anyway, these are the School Dance Lamps.

The girls are kicking it...they were designed in illustrator and made to look like ink drawings. They eventually became really Art Nouveau, which I like, at which point I finsihed them up, silkscreened them on goyu handmade rice paper, layered them, and wrapped and built the lamp. No small feat--constructing the lamp has taken hours upon hours from my life.

And the boys are being totally apathetic.

Both lamps ae finished now but it's too bright to photograph the boys now--if there is interest I'll post them later on. Lemme know what you think, feedback is important! Thanks!

 

[Matlock]

I'd buy that for a dollar!

 

[AntoneM]

looks nice, I mean it's nothing amazing but I could definately see it in some ones house. I think the lampshade is a little too long from top to bottom but otherwise nice.

 

[darscot]

I would never buy a lamp like that.

For me it would have to be wooden with a candle for a light and hand painted in some little shop owned by the same family for the last hundred years. The shop would also have to be in a far-away country that I stumbled across. Plus the family that owned the shop would probable have to have a hot daughter working there.

 

[Litigation Manuel]

I think it's pretty cool looking. Lamptastic.

 

[Mario_Hugo]

Well, in all fairness, it's supposed to cater to the williamsburg design crowd. Response has been great around the communications department at art school, but I understand the "I'd never own it" reaction just as well.

 

[B'z-chan]

How much we talking?

 

[Jason]

I'd buy one. My room could use a lamp.

 

[moist]

I love lamp

 

[themadcowtipper]

it is good but it is no

 

[aoi tsuki]

That's a really great, gestural style on the girls, primarily the dresses. i really like how i can feel the flow of the dresses.

i like the style of the lamps, although i'm not big on large prints, mainly smaller patterns simply stated. If it were possible, i think i'd use a dark or reddish brown for the "ink" instead of black. The drawings feel too heavy in respect to everything else.

Great work though! i'd definitely buy one if i had the space for a lamp.

 

[miyuru]

Nice work man! Personally I haven't seen a lamp like that one. I think it'd do well, especially as a gift idea. I wouldn't buy one myself since it doesn't work with my room, but it's a really cool style. I like the shape, and how the stand is very modern looking, contrasting with the old-school print.

Good stuff.

 

[GG-Duo]

i really dig it. great stuff.

 

[olimario]

Mario...
You really should consider selling your stuff. It's so brilliant from a design standpoint and it's so pleasing to the eye.
I love the lamp... I'd like to see you do a Katamari Damacy style one in that 'black lines on offwhite lampshade' style.

 

[Mario_Hugo]

yeah, starting a store! purpose of the lamp (beyond my senior project)

A little late for the ink commentary, but I'll keep it in mind when they are being produce after this semester is up. I'm way behind right now..

 

[Meier]

That's really quite impressive -- I dont have anything negative to say about it honestly.

 

[Mario_Hugo]

Thanks.

 

[KingGondo]

Wow--I could imagine that actually looking tasteful in a girl's room. None of that Dora the Explorer bullshit for my daughter!

 

[Jade Knight 08]

Kewl.... but not sure if i want a figure drawing lamp while getting laid!!! :lol :lol

 

[NetMapel]

I like the lamp and would definitely be interested in buying one if the price is reasonable !

 

[belgurdo]

I would never buy one in a million years, but I can see chicks snapping up these things by the armload. They are classy

 

[Pochacco]

Starting a new store called Three Quarter. I've been using senior project time to design identity, website, etc.

Anyway, these are the School Dance Lamps.

The girls are kicking it...they were designed in illustrator and made to look like ink drawings. They eventually became really Art Nouveau, which I like, at which point I finsihed them up, silkscreened them on goyu handmade rice paper, layered them, and wrapped and built the lamp. No small feat--constructing the lamp has taken hours upon hours from my life.

And the boys are being totally apathetic.

Both lamps ae finished now but it's too bright to photograph the boys now--if there is interest I'll post them later on. Lemme know what you think, feedback is important! Thanks!

By far the best lamp I've seen posted on a gaming message board, today.

 

[Mason]

I like the lamp. It's very simple and elegant. I'd be interested in hearing a lot more details about how the whole thing was constructed, especially the metal base.

 

[Comfort_Eagle]

I like it. Good work!

 

[GG-Duo]

by the way, how much and can i order via the web?

 

[Mario_Hugo]

It's actually a very expensive lamp to produce, unfortunately. The paper is 6.20 a sheet and two per lamp, plus a 16 dollar ikea lamp base and hours of labor silkscreening and constructing. My roomate is working on making the product shipeable with original base. Item runs will be limited--this is a hand crafted design item, not a mass manufactured product--prices will reflect this virtue and each will be hand signed and numbered. I may even sell some original artwork.

The website will be www.threequarter.com. It's early yet, but it's there. In any event, the response seems very positive so far and I'm very pleased. Thanks very much for all the positive comments! The studio/shop is headed up by myself and my good friend Charlie Brokate. I recently designed his site and my portfolio will be up soon. His stuff is up at www.charliechristianbrokate.com and mine will be up at www.loveworn.com. There are a lot of details I'm not quite ready to divulge yet, but I'll keep the board updated on progress. Pillows, clocks, lamps will all be viewable by mid may. Releases will be quarterly.

Thanks again!

 

[SteveMeister]

The girls look great, very very expressive and fun (in fact it made me smile to look at it). The idea with the boys is cute, as a contrast, and if someone bought both lamps & had them sit side by side it'd work, but as a standalone I don't think it works (whereas the one with the girls works either way).

 

[CrystalGemini]

I would buy it, then take the lamp shades out, frame them, and use them as wall ornaments instead.

 

[Zaptruder]

If you ever get famous for your artwork, these lamps would make a great investment.

As long as the build quality is upto scratch.

You've definetly got the skill to be famous; but in the fickle world of art, it'll be upto the winds of luck to make popular taste turn towards a style like yours.

Seems like you've done a good deal of what you can to catch onto that wind...

I like it though; especially love the soft muted glow provided by paper covered lamps, and use a makeshit lamp in such a fashion...

 

[darscot]

It's really hard to imaging this lamp as artistic or handcrafted.. First I like the shade. But you need to get rid of that frickin Ikea base. It's Ikea you know Swedish for shit as they say. Go find some old guy with a wood shop to build you the bases and raise the price buy ten times. Then you have handcrafted right now you have some kind of weird mixture of art and cheap mass produced crap. The shade is cool and I'm not trying to knock it.

 

[ToxicAdam]

I like the base, I like the shade, I loathe the pictures on it. Just give me a simple pattern.

 

[robertsan21]

i likeit!

your talanted no doubt about it.
i would want to see the same lamp but with a brighter paper wrapped around it.

the boy art is so cool i would buy one!

the girl hmm well she is nice but i dont know, there is something about it that i dont like.

 

[Mario_Hugo]

Thanks again for all the comments.

This isn't really representative of the breadth of my work, Zap, which I hope to be able to show you within the next couple weeks.

I agree about the base. As per the purposes of this particular school project, I had no qualms with using the Ikea lamp base--even Geoff McFetridge has done the same. At the moment, there are quite a few design changes to expect, including an original base as designed by my awesome interior design friend Charlie, and an interlocking tooth system for the flat shipped shade. At the moment, the product is a one off and prototype--it cannot yet be shipped. Consider the paper, the glow, the prints instead of the base right now!

And you're the only person yet to prefer the boys to the girls. haha. I plan on making fewer boy lamps at the moment. There will probably be 15 produced girl lamps and 10 boys.

I'll have some other items to show soon too. Thanks again.

 

[Zaptruder]

The flow of the pictures in the girl lamp is pretty chaotic; not sure if they're the same girl in different moods or different girls. It's probably an intended effect though. What I'm not sure is an intended effect is that the fourth girl looks like the shapely diarreah of the third girl.

The boy pics are pretty cool though.

 

[Dujour]

it is good but it is no

:lol