We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Kazoo Design about their original and creative Candleholder design work. Kazoo Design is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original candleholder works.
Kazoo Design ("KD") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work 428 Candleholder. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
KD : In sculpture, one of the challenges artists face is to find a way to integrate a base for their structures (when the artwork cannot support itself) that will also blend with their artwork and will not stick out too much. This project was a study to see how something that starts from a basic primitive can transition into a more complex one while retaining a seamless nature.
KD : This object started off as a geometrical study. We wanted to achieve a tall candleholder that was not just a basic cylinder but rather has so much interplay and looks quiet architectural.
KD : We would like to release metal versions of this object. We have had one made for ourselves and we like how it’s looking.
KD : The project took a couple of days to come to life. The majority of the time spent went into revising the mold.
KD : This design idea was not commissioned. We wanted to add a tall candleholder to our collection of objects.
KD : For the time-being we are producing this item in our workshop. If it were to be made out of metal we would most likely commission it to a metal maker.
KD : It came out from the need to design a candlholder that can support a tall candle.
KD : This design is intended for people who like modern homeware items.
KD : Candleholder 428 is pronounced as 'Candleholder four to eight'. The design starts from a 4 sided shape (square) and ends in an eight sided one (octagon) while passing from a pentagon, hexagon and heptagon. The name refers to a 4 sided shape turning into an 8-sided one
KD : Softimage for designing the object as well as the molds and Zbrush for creating booleans.
KD : We think that the most unique aspect is the interplay of tones between highlights and shadows on the object’s surface.
KD : We worked on this project from start to finish.
KD : The product was designed digitally and its’ prototype was 3d printed so technology had a pretty important contribution to its’ creation.
KD : No it’s not.
KD : The biggest challenge involved making a one part mold in order to avoid dealing with seam clean-up.
KD : We decided to see what an international board of judges would think about this design.
KD : We really enjoyed designing with curves.
KD : No. Thank you very much for the interview.
