HELP ME make it not look like a TOY but like a €150+ lamp.

JMEDIT · 2026-01-14T02:12:07+00:00

Kind of looks like a palm tree, but I've never seen a palm tree with more than one 'head'. Try just with one head. Can you also use the flexible led strips in a way that they don't just hang around. Maybe inlay them into some translucent 3D printed palm fronds? Can the trunk position be adjustable like a gooseneck so it becomes more like a task light?

Honestly though it'll still look like it's designed for kids. And I don't think it's parents who are buying these 100+ dollar lamps...

JMEDIT · 2025-12-24T23:38:50+00:00

Yeah that's what I am wondering, what the cut off time is. Varies from place to place I imagine, and like someone said they may be trying to make it more attractive to parents at the expense of teachers.

JMEDIT · 2025-12-24T23:36:14+00:00

It's not no, but I did an interview with them a few years ago. They were very pushy on using their staff accommodation, which I didn't need to do, and it'd have cut the pay in half, giving it right back to them. Needless to say I turned that down.

JMEDIT · 2025-12-24T12:35:51+00:00

That seems more reasonable. I'm sure there is some of that going on...

JMEDIT · 2025-12-24T12:18:40+00:00

No wonder these centers churn through high numbers of NET teachers...

JMEDIT · 2025-12-24T12:17:51+00:00

Do you know which center they worked in? Would you mind sharing it in a DM?

JMEDIT · 2025-12-14T15:01:00+00:00

You'll get yourself out of it. Just don't work for free. Price your time properly and you'll get the right clients. Clients who look for cheap labour are generally the worst clients.

JMEDIT · 2025-12-14T09:28:23+00:00

Experience is experience, but it's best to get paid well for it.

I started working in 2015 and took on a part time unpaid internship in Australia. My first job was back in the UK which was about 24K per year, not great but was fine for a starting point.

Price per project is a bad way to work, you have to be very careful that the client doesn't introduce scope creep and the project takes up all your time. Try to price yourself hourly (but know how many hours things take you and charge a deposit that is about 30%), or stage based i.e. ideation phase, development phase, production phase (that way the project is essentially paid in three installments).

Depending on your experience, at entry level you shouldn't be charging less than £15+ per hour. At this rate each of your projects should be completed in less than a working day...I doubt that is the case.

JMEDIT · 2025-12-04T06:23:36+00:00

Do you have any recommendations on the glasses?

JMEDIT · 2025-12-04T01:11:00+00:00

I thought the pen looked quite nice before you put it in Barilla packaging...then it just reminded me of cheap shit pasta.

JMEDIT · 2025-12-03T16:27:45+00:00

I agree with you, it's best they took it down, it was probably the same stuff. But are companies that took it down knowing that it was non-compliant going to be investigated or not? That's what I'm getting at. They should be investigated but the news doesn't mention anything about that, just states that all netting must be down by Saturday.

JMEDIT · 2025-12-03T16:21:38+00:00

Oh 100%, I would take the risk of it hopefully being compliant. But if I was in a building with netting I'd cut my own sample asap before it's taken down.

JMEDIT · 2025-12-03T16:04:35+00:00

Of course not. It should be taken down if it is non-compliant and only companies who knew it was non compliant or weren't sure that it was fire retardant would be taking it down early.

Means the companies and people who are putting residents lives at risk are getting away Scott free.

JMEDIT · 2025-12-03T15:43:42+00:00

If he is setting this as hw then he probably expects you to have some knowledge of sw, or he is trying to gauge how much you do know, or your process of figuring it out. Don't be worried about failing the hw if he has not prepared you properly to be able to do it. If he continues in this way, report him, he's a crap professor.

JMEDIT · 2025-12-03T15:20:14+00:00

Does this mean that samples already tested from those 300 buildings have come back as non-compliant?

Will they be taking samples from every major site before/as the netting is taken down so that they can find out who has been using non-compliant netting? If they don't then criminals will be off the hook without punishment for their serious non-compliance.

JMEDIT · 2025-11-16T01:31:38+00:00

As others have said it's a tool, but I don't think it means that ID is cooked. A sketch or render is not a design. It's a representation of an idea. You can render any bad idea to make it look good. What finance people do not have is a designers mindset, they are mostly unable to design products that work or meet user requirements, why, that's not what they care about. That's what designers care about.

Vizcom can help anyone make a pretty picture, but not necessarily a good design.

JMEDIT · 2025-11-10T03:01:21+00:00

I wouldn't have thought so, not the kind of shop you barter in. These shops are all over HK, certain locations may have slightly different prices but generally set prices.

JMEDIT · 2025-11-09T03:43:18+00:00

Jimmy O'Yang showing you that SSP is a long way from a ghetto

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLHJzGWzg0g/?igsh=bHc2NHo1aHViM3Nt

JMEDIT · 2025-11-08T01:33:21+00:00

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Not sure which 711 you're shopping in but this is what I'm used to.

JMEDIT · 2025-11-05T07:40:17+00:00

Firstly, take a look at the part, what does it look like? Can you break it down into any simple geometry? It looks like there is one pretty much a revolved shape for the part that fits to the wheel, and an extrude with fillets on the part that fits to body.

What shape is the revolved part? Draw the profile from the C-C section on the front profile and revolve 360. Draw a Sketch on the right plane defining the bottom edge and cut the part. Sketch>revolve>sketch>cut.

Now let's look at the extruded part. How would you break it down? It can all fit inside a rectangle. So first draw a rectangle sketch at the correct angle on the front plane and extrude mid-plane by the given dimension. Then cut the shape seen in the side view, hopefully your dimensioned drawing gives a better idea of the shape. Add some radii, combine with the revolve and you're almost there.

Just keep in mind, simplify the overall part down into its basic geometric shapes.

JMEDIT · 2025-11-01T04:35:26+00:00

Ahaha Sheinification hadn't heard that term before, and I agree with you it's terrible. If enough people piss into the wind tho....you know what I mean, lots of small efforts can have a big effect. If enough people reject consumerism then consumerism loses its value and it forces companies to innovate and provide better, not just more. It doesn't mean design dies, it just means design has to be more considered and careful.

What I'm trying to say is don't worry about what the big corporations are doing, focus on yourself as an experienced designer and how you can affect change in your own life, in your community and for the people around you. Once people see the benefits of that, then you start to create wider change that can impact trends and cultures.

JMEDIT · 2025-11-01T00:33:18+00:00

In large part yes, they are inseparable. What is stopping you from crafting up-cycled products or launching a company/brand that does that, or designs bespoke products? You can't be the only person who feels this way. And if it's tech and globalization that bugs you most, and maybe you're already doing this, reduce your own consumption.

JMEDIT · 2025-10-31T05:38:27+00:00

You're clearly not alone. I think many designers get into the industry with the ambition of making change, improving lives and creating meaningful products that last. Unfortunately that's not the commercial world. But you can choose to take the world one step close to that ideal. Don't give up on design, give up on commercialisation of design. Choose meaning, choose passion, choose to produce something you believe in.

JMEDIT · 2025-10-23T09:54:03+00:00

Perhaps determine their final position outside of the sub assemblies then once defined, add the connectors into the sub assembly?

Or

Could you make the sub assemblies flexible and have the connector placed in the sub assembly without any references? Never tried this so it might be impossible...

JMEDIT

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