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(Archive) Philips 3D printed recycled lamps.

Responsible lighting produced in the Netherlands using recycled fishing nets from our oceans.

This project was part of DDW 2022
Costal Breeze Pendants

In pursuit of sustainable products, Signify has been focused on leveraging 3D printing in small regional printing hubs catering to our customers on-demand. In doing so we have found new design freedom, become more flexible in our source materials and prevented over-production for a circular future.

Statement designs. Sustainably printed.

These are lamps with a purpose.

"Nets are the main tools used by fishermen to earn a living, but fishing nets waste is a genuine problem here in Cornwall due to the lack of a proper recycling infrastructure. Around the world, most of the fishing nets were burned, put in landfill, or worst of all, dumped into the sea, causing massive environmental problems." — Ian Falconer, founder of Fishy Filaments Ltd.

3D printed from old fishing nets gathered directly from the ocean, made locally and on demand, this special lamp empowers people to make a conscious choice without having to compromise on beauty.

Inspired by its origin.

To honor the purposeful origin of the source material, as well as the ocean itself, these lamps have a coastal-inspired surface finish that comes to life in textures and colors that bring the feeling of the seashore to your home.

3D printing completely changes the way we design new product. It's much closer to craftsmanship in a very iterative process together with the machine we create code and new textures and we wanted to reflect those new textures in the product. Honoring the ocean and the source material for example with fishnet and sand dune textures.

Circular materials.

We are taking 3D printing to a new level by pioneering a new design craftmanship where the beauty of printed forms, textures and materials are expressed while solving the technical challenges of a sustainability supply chain in a commercially viable way. We are constantly driven by the challenge to create value in a product with its material origin in a waste stream.

Our technologies allow us to initiate partnerships with material suppliers of all scales. This grants us the flexibility to initiate projects with suppliers offering differing types and quantities of waste materials.

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Fishnets in the harbour

Recycled materials

Our DDW stand

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