Emiliano Godoy's Arbol Lamps: Another LED Turn-On
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA 
on 02.16.08
Combining the warmth of sustainably-harvested birch plywood with the cool efficiency of LEDs, Emiliano Godoy (with help from Alejandro Castro and Alejandro Machorro) was a winner at the 2007 National Design Biennial in Mexico City for his Arbol Lamps. The trio created lamps that feature modular LED boards developed exclusively for this collection, which features a system of central joining that imitates the trunks and branches of trees, where the strength of the whole comes from distributing the work amongst all the limbs.
It's a smart way to design lighting like this; the pendant lamp pictured above is "assembled from eight identical pieces that join in a radial arrangement. This joining system was developed while looking for a way to distribute small sources of light (LEDs) in a three dimensional pattern, but using flat pieces which could be manufactured with low cost and minimal material use." Hit the jump for a free-standing version of Arbol and for more of Godoy's thoughts on sustainable design.
::Godoylab via ::Sustainable Design Update
See also: ::Emiliano Godoy's Biodegradable Knit Chair and ::Emiliano Godoy's Biodegradable Sugar Golf Tee
About sustainable design, Godoy says, "I consider design a tool to renew our production and consumption structures, a way to change unsustainable patterns of product development into a sustainable innovation process.
"When economic, social and environmental requirements are equally considered from the beginning the resulting pieces are neither more expensive nor less attractive."
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The advent of ecological design must be accompanied by a sense of reality. High costs are no less damaging to the world, humans, life than abusing the environment. What is the difference?
It's time we shed light on realism, and promoted more adaptation to resources, including money.
This is wery nice design, and it has a lot of posibilities. You could easily upgrade tis last one in polehanger. Or to have self unit with sides like this,...