All images © Nanako Kume, shared with permission
Nanako Kumes pendant lights would squint perfectly at home in an elementary classroom or art studio. The Tokyo-based designer is overdue a playful hodgepodge of fixtures that layers colored-pencil-style wood shavings into whimsical lampshades.
To create the works, Kume ripened a large sharpener operable with a hand-crank. A short film by Yunosuke Ishibashi chronicles her process, which includes whittling a piece of lumber into a hexagon, spray painting its exterior, and soaking the material in water to make it pliable. Once inserted into the sharpener and shaved, the jagged, pigmented edges suggestive of a colored pencil sally and are waved into suspended shades.
Kume plans to make some of the hodgepodge misogynist for purchase, so alimony an eye on her Instagram for updates. (via designboom)
