Labyrinth

Background

This design is very similar to a design at FLOS. Originally, I was tasked with fixing the failed design from Sonneman. The design itself greatly needed to be simplified. The timeline was short, as we had a customer who ordered around $500,000 of the product, and none of it was working. I created this version in a very tight timeline to save the company from a hefty lawsuit

The Challenge:

Fix the light so it does not short circuit, and properly illuminates under similar power constraints to the previous design.

My Role:

I did all of the 3D modeling and communications with the factory in China.

Process

In this project, I was specifically tasked with saving the company. Our client was given a product from before I was in the company which completely did not work upon delivery. The customer threatened a massive lawsuit upon the company which could have bankrupted the whole operation. I got to work on a replacement for the original design, which turned an extremely complicated fixture in to a much more simple, and elegant design. I meticulously designed the system to have even more light output than originally specified, which pleased the customer. The new design went from a very difficult modular design to a simple screw-down design. The only downside is that the packaging size increased, but when it comes down to the brass tacks (literally) a little extra warehouse space doesn’t matter too much.

Final Outcomes

My design made it to market and can be found here:

https://sonnemanlight.com/labyrinth-chandelier?klevu_input=labyrinth

The assembly instructions that I created can be found on the provided link as well.

This final design saved the company from a $500,000+ lawsuit.