Rise
Portable Lamp
2025
Light up with
just a simple lift
Carry the light with you
from room to room
Rise is a gentle portable lamp that lights up when lifted by hand. Hung by a soft felt loop, it responds to your touch as it gently brightens while rising, casting a warm glow that reflects softly off the ceramic surface. When placed back down, the light quietly fades. Rise turns the simple act of lifting into a calming ritual of illumination.
Linger on the wall
as a gentle sconce
Soft touch of
woven textile
A quiet warmth
rests in ceramic
Problem
A gesture that lacks
connection and emotion
Design
Oppurtunity
Insight
Reintroduce warmth through
everyday movements
FINAL FORM
We turn on a light with a switch, a universal motion done without thought. Everything, from lamps to appliances, responds to the same tap or click. This flattens our relationship with lighting, carrying no emotion, texture, or sense of connection, and ultimately diminishing the quality of everyday living.
Hang as the natural gesture for
turning on the light
Our daily lives are filled with small, familiar gestures like lifting, hanging, and placing. These everyday movements embody a sense of living, carrying memory, rhythm, and emotion.
By transforming these gestures into the way we turn on a light, we can reconnect illumination with feeling. Such simple and ordinary motions can become meaningful rituals, softening the moment a light begins to glow.
Hanging is a simple everyday action. It is a gesture of placing something where it belongs and letting an object come to rest. This gentle transition from carrying to settling matches the natural rhythm of portability.
The handle and our body hold an intuitive memory of lifting and holding. If this familiar motion becomes the way a light turns on, illumination integrates naturally into instinctive human behavior. The beginning of light emerges from a gesture the body already knows.