The hundredth idea. After ninety-nine sketches were set aside, this was the one that stayed — a floor lamp that merges a ring light with a HEPA air purifier in a single form drawn from the graphic of the number itself. Silver A'Design Award winner, 2021.
Challenge
2020. Clean air became a requirement in offices and meeting rooms, not a comfort. The brief was a multifunctional object — lamp and air purifier in a single form — and the rule was simple: generate a hundred ideas, keep only the one that could survive as both.
Approach
Idea one hundred was the one where the name solved the form. "100" — a "1" beside two "0"s — became the lamp itself: a column rising into an oval ring. The ring holds the light around its perimeter and a HEPA filter inside its volume. A single silhouette does both jobs.
After the award-winning prototype, I re-engineered the head for production — from CNC-machined aluminum to a bent U-channel profile, cutting manufacturing cost by 25% and making a hundred-unit run viable. Modular, plug-and-play, app-controlled over Bluetooth.
Outcome
Silver A'Design Award, 2020–2021. A concept-driven object that survived the jump from prototype to production — without losing the idea that built it.
"The first ninety-nine ideas were how I found the one that mattered."