Creative student work is always exciting to share, like Tokyo-based product and furniture designer Bijin Davis’ for a fleeting moment mobile shelves that illuminate one another with pale gradients of color. Designed for her Masters Graduate project in 2021, the furniture was inspired by the idea of having a new appearance when your surroundings shift. On their own the shelves are a standard white, but when brought together it looks as though they’re illuminating each other with washes of gradient color. Never a constant, we only have a few moments to enjoy the reflections that resemble lighting.
“I was initially sparked by this idea when I saw my red computer mouse against my white wall, and I could see a faint tint of red. With COVID, spending a lot of time at home has made me observe relationships between objects, not only people,” said Davis.
Each shelf is attached between pipes with a simple turning action, seamless ball casters are attached to the bottom, and everything can be disassembled. Aluminum pipes, aluminum composite boards, and fluorescent color work together to make this imaginative project a reality. Davis used waterjet cutting to shape the aluminum composite at Waterjet Yoneyama and metal welding was completed at Okawa-Bankin. The hand done gradient paintwork by Toko-toso may have been the most challenging piece of the puzzle, taking multiple rounds of trial and error. We love the result and look forward to seeing what Davis goes on to create in her career.
To learn more about for a fleeting moment, visit bijindavis.com.
Photos by Kantaro Itoi.
Source: design-milk