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sensual lamp

Potential:
Home use
Personal but common use
Consumer product
For eventual manufacture
Subtle
Different
Intriguing
Perhaps something made by the user – personalised?

Limitations
Realistic
Non personal to me
Fits with research

Approach/methodology
SLOW!
Take into account research
Brainstorming
Ideo methods
Group discussion led by me

Research
Sex/sensual practice
Intimacy practice
Materials related to intimacy
Semantics
Electronics (LED/CF)
Ask people
Colour theory

Objectives
Get the ideas right before the form
Form does not follow function, it is equally important, they may not dictate each other, they must work together.

Outcomes:
If it is possible make a mock up or final product of the lamp
Log design process

Some words:
Kiss
Sound
Touch
Tactile
Interpersonal
Emotion
Intimacy
Physical
Sympathy
Empathy
Union
Seduction
Lust
Courtship
Partnership
Identity (of self, of couple)

its not what it looks like, its the feeling it gives and the light it projects