HEATH NASH | DESIGN / ONTWERP
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HEATH NASH - South African Designer
Heath Nash with “Flower Ball” lampshade design
Heath Nash is a South African designer who addresses the environmental issue.
Nash uses wire frames and old plastic bottles. He found the notion of re-use very exciting. Using the skills of a wire artist he created a range of re-purposed post-consumer plastic waste products. Heath allied himself with local environmental organizations – Footprints. The workers in this group were trained to collect and wash the bottles thus cleaning up the environment. Nash also formed a new company named Poise.
Poise collects from sorting areas, washes, cuts and creases the plastic. Heath Nash now has a steady flow, sustainable source of most colours. He also provides employment for underprivileged people who collect plastic from dumps.
The plastic is die cut, therefore no energy is used and no pollution results from the process.
The offcuts are then returned to recyclers for recycling.
Flower Ball lampshade. The lampshade is functional, in that it houses a globe to light up a room. It also has aesthetic value as it offers a pleasing visual experience and it beautifies the interior in which it is hung.
It addresses the current environmental concerns in that it allows for the recycling of scrap plastic for its production.
The lampshade is dominantly white giving a quiet, pure surreal quality to the work. The shade is made of similar leaf and biomorphic petal shapes cut from plastic that are creased to look like flowers. Some flowers have rounded triangular petals which contrast with the elongated petal shapes. This creates variety and interest in the surface pattern. The quietness brought about by the simple spherical shape and the uninterrupted white colour is brought to life by the movement created by the sharp points and different angles of the petal shapes.
Heath Nash is ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse ontwerper. Sy gebruik van materiale en werkprosesse, spreek omgewingskwessies aan. Nash gebruik draadrame en ou plastiekbottels. Hy het die idee van hergebruik baie opwindend gevind.
Deur die gebruik van die vaardighede van ‘n draadkunstenaar het hy ‘n reeks post-verbruiker-plastiek-afvalprodukte met ‘n nuwe doel geskep. Heath het begin saamwerk met die plaaslike omgewingsorganisasies – Footprints (Voetspore). Die werkers in hierdie groep is opgelei om bottels in te samel en te was en sodoende die omgewing op te ruim.
Nash het ook ‘n nuwe maatskappy met die naam Poise begin wat die plastiek versamel, spoel, sny en vou. Poise versamel van sorteer- areas en Nash het nou ‘n bestendige vloei, ‘n volhoubare bron van die meeste kleure.
Hy bied ook werksgeleenthede vir minderbevoorregte mense wat plastiek by vullishope versamel. Die plastiek word gesny vanaf ‘n stempel en gebruik dus geen energie nie en besoedel nie deur die proses nie. Die afgesnyde dele wat nie gebruik word nie, word dan teruggeneem na herwinnaars vir herwinning.
Titel en beskrywing: Flower Ball-lampskerm
Die lampskerm is funksioneel in die sin dat dit ‘n gloeilamp het wat ‘n vertrek kan verlig. Dit het ook estetiese waarde aangesien dit ‘n aangename visuele ervaring bied en die interieur waar dit hang, verfraai.
Dit ondersoek die huidige omgewingskwessies omdat dit toelaat vir die herwinning van afvalplastiek vir die produksie daarvan.
Die lampskerm is oorheersend wit en gee ‘n stil, suiwer, onwerklike gehalte aan die werk. Die skerm word gemaak van dieselfde blaar- en biomorfiese blomvorms, gesny van plastiek wat gevou word om soos blomme te lyk. Sommige blomme het geronde driehoekige blare wat met die verlengde blomvorms kontrasteer. Dit skep ‘n verskeidenheid en belangstelling in die oppervlakpatroon. Die kalmte wat teweeg gebring word deur die eenvoudige ronde vorm en die ononderbroke wit kleur word lewendig gemaak deur die beweging wat deur die skerp punte en verskillende hoeke van die blomvorms geskep word.
∴NSC – Grade 12 Exemplar – Design/P1 23 DBE/2014
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