This year's A+ Young Designers' Platform winners represented a broad spectrum of products highlighting innovative ideas from emerging designers. Showing on the floor of Accent on Design, these four young designers were curated with the help of the American Design Club.
danacannamdesign was launched in 2009 after Cannam received his design degree from the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His first project, the clamplamp explored how to, "maximize the functionality of a solid unfinished material rather than adding unwanted components." The lamp utilizes an energy-efficient LED strip, is compression-fit with no glue or screws holding the lamp together. The lamp head can rotate 360 degrees on its pivot and is manufactured with minimal environmental impact.
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