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These lamps tells a story of the blind Designer

According to some reports the Find Wyatt, from Australia, only 28 years old young designer Duncan Meerding has a legendary experience: at the age of 14, independently of their own guitar, at the age of 18 in Hobart, won the "wood design award" at the age of 23, completed at the University of Tasmania of art history and furniture design degree. And in the same year won the springboard scholarship and the biennial Minister of Youth Art Prize, for Duncan, this is an opportunity, but also a chance. But the seemingly in Everything is going smoothly. dream on the road designer, his life on the road is not smooth......

In 2005, the lucky goddess no longer seem to care for Duncan, he was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, the blindness in 12 months. Duncan said, although the starting from the age of 18 he gradually lost his eyesight, but he still love the beauty of the wilderness of Tasmania. He is still in the creation, natural tree lines, leaf texture and Lily's curve and the nature of the design of the every tree and Bush have become his inspiration. He believed in simplicity and beauty, and are fond of wood. And I saw the two words in the designer body: tolerance, persistence, and all this is rooted in his dream.

Duncan loves making furniture, especially lighting. This is not in our understanding of normal people, he is almost equivalent to a blind man, how to make the lamp? However, the Duncan people to overthrow the traditional cognition in his works. Because he couldn't see, so he can feel better each light, fingers can more clearly understand every touch, ears can hear more subtle sound, he through the wood itself to the touch, and identify a chisel in the wood of the voice, in his opinion, this is intuitive to use the eye can integrate into his creation of emotion. Of course, the tape also missed his buddy -- the opening report, he can freely express his emotional design, even if he is a blind man.

In almost no central vision of the world, he could not see the shape of furniture design, touch and sound design tools and design principles of Duncan become strong, strong emotions can make him more engaged in the design, which is unique to Duncan beauty design......

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