Press 2023

Polyp Lighting
by Justin Bailey
as a member of Design Forum

London Design Fair 2023
Truman Brewery
Stand 1A31
September 21-24, 2023

This year Justin Bailey exhibits new variations of his Polyp Lighting.
The Polyp Lamps feature assembly as ornament to create voluminous shapes inspired by natural form. Algorithmically assisted, made from Yupo paper and recycled PET-G plastic as table and pendant lighting.

Polyp Lamps
The Polyp Lamps feature assembly as ornament to create voluminous shapes inspired by natural form. Algorithmically assisted, made from Yupo Paper and recycled PET-G plastic as table and pendant lighting.

Each Polyp volume comes together from a series of Yupo Paper strips connected by edge tabs that pop together. Subtle irregularity and shifts in form draw from ballooning, growing forms found in fruits and sea life. These lamps pull inspiration from Noguchi’s classic Akari paper lighting, as well as space age era modernist furniture and objects so as to contrast the often rigid forms found in design and architecture.

Table Lamp Scale Range: 28cm diameter [11”] up to 36cm x 36cm x 46cm [14”x14”x18”]

Link for Image Download (Hi Res): <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gD-_eLjp8Bc19PpoU019dQ3qpyaUY6lK?usp=sharing>

About Justin Bailey
Justin Bailey is a furniture and lighting designer based in Bloomington, Indiana, USA where he is an Assistant Professor of Art and Design foundations at Indiana University’s Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design. Bailey graduated with an MFA in 3D Design from the University of Iowa (2016) and a BFA in Sculpture (2012) from Webster University.

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Justin Bailey has since presented designs nationally and internationally such as in Milan, Italy (Salone del Mobile’s SaloneSatellite 2018/2019/2022); Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2020); and in New York City (WantedDesign 2017), he was the recipient of a LIT Lighting Design Award (2018) and an honorable mention for the SIT Design Award (2020). 

Design Ethos
Justin Bailey’s design studio practice explores how pliable surfaces integrate with form and materiality to become design objects. Functional artefacts are used as a medium to express curiosities of form, craft, materials, and structure. Bailey creates at an intersection of disciplines spanning furniture design, contemporary craft, and digital fabrication. This overlap is indicative of our current point in time – a nexus that presents how the integration of digital technology with a tactile output can embrace and build upon traditional practices in the making of functional objects. Justin is drawn to subtle irregularities observed in gestural motions like tilting, draping, and inflating, considering how these organic shifts may affect our relationship to everyday objects, furniture, and lighting.

Contact Information
Justin Bailey
www.jbaileydesign.com
justin@jbaileydesign.com
+1.314.780.27.30

Instagram @justinbaileydesign

About Design Forum
www.designforumstudios.org
designforumstudios@gmail.com
Instagram @designforumstudios

Design Forum is a cooperative enterprise featuring designers Justin Bailey, Suzanne Bradley, Monica Correia, Vako Darjania, and Vinicius Lima. The collective aims to was founded to uplift and promote the works of independent design studios through discussion and collaboration. Each of the designers involved shares design roots that came about through teaching and research at the University of Iowa but have since spread out to various locations across the US.