We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer GEORGIANA GHIT about their original and creative Lighting Object design work. GEORGIANA GHIT is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original lighting object works.
GEORGIANA GHIT ("GG") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Fragrance Lamp Lighting Object. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
GG : The summary of the general idea is the creation of new materials that emanate natural perfume, natural color, or even an unfinished natural texture. Finding ecological materials with properties both in shape, color, texture, perfume. Touch it for texture, and Smell it for perfume. The fragrance of the lavender flowers make the object flow. Besides the fresh smell and the deep color, lavender is always associated with the idea of relaxation and well-being.
GG : I wanted to achieve the fragrance. I wanted a natural and sustainable material with perfume. Focused on consumer, the object is part of the sensory design through texture and smell and has an ecological purpose.
GG : My plan in the near future is to implement my work worldwide. Right now, I'm working on my online store. I will focus on the business, and then I will start making new experiments and projects.
GG : The project lasted 4 months from the first sketches to production. It started in January 2019 in Bucharest and it ended in April 2019 in Bucharest. It was officialy presented at Romanian Design Week 2019 in May. After that, was exhibited at Sensoria - The Exhibition at Cluj Design Days & Timisoara Design Days, Romania, same year.
GG : I created Fragrance Lamp because of the flower. I always loved lavender fields. The flower has so many practical uses and the perfume it's unique. Besides the fresh smell and the deep color, lavender is always associated with the idea of relaxation and well-being. From a statistic I realized that there are many consumers who love lavender for its properties, so I said, why not to create a lighting object that emanates that beautiful fragrance for their houses too.
GG : Because I'm a young designer, I want to grow my business, and to develop other sustainable projects. My plan is to produce myself the Fragrance Lamp on demand, and after that I will extend the production.
GG : The idea is to create a boundary with nature. You can chose nature or at least you can be part of it. The connection is not limited.
GG : I had another project before, where I created a different material but for the same category: lighting. From then I started to analyse different natural resources and integrate them into materials and shapes.
GG : The consumers of the lavender flower, and people who love the fragrance of it. Everyone who wants a peace of nature in the living room, or wants to have a relaxful sleep. Customer can be also a person who prefer sustainable products.
GG : The purpose and its unique property. The material created and the perfume of it.
GG : The product name chosen is exactly the clue to its unique property.
GG : None. I used the design thinking process and the realtime experiments.
GG : The fragrance. The lighting object was a natural perfume of the lavender flower.
GG : The process and experiment I did it on my own. For the final technical touch I collaborated with my technician which is also my friend and was my mentor in learning how to work with different machines
GG : Fundament and function.
GG : Yes. I used the design thinking process. The insight is to connect for disconnect the stress. I tried to implement the experience into experiment. The final result is the user experience who identify with the lighting product.
GG : The hardest part of the project was finding the way to produce the new material made from lavender seeds. I made different experiments to create a strong fragrance and to be durable in time.
GG : I decided to submit my product to A Design Award competition, because I believe that it's a great opportunity for me as a young designer to participate at many design competitions, to promote my work and to be seen.
GG : I keep saying to myself that the experiment matter most. If you want a good design in the end, you need to focus on the process.
GG : After one year of preservation, the lavender lamp still have fragrance. That means that ingredients are important and the natural resources are powerful.
