Product Designer

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Hybrid: New York or San Francisco Product Designer In the 1960s, the Italian artist and inventor Bruno Munari was studying spontaneous forms: shapes that emerge from the interaction of material, function, and environment. When Danese Milano commissioned him to design a lamp that was practical, durable, affordable, and easy to transport, Munari was reminded of the traditional rice paper lanterns he had encountered when traveling in Japan. But rice paper lanterns are fragile, hard to clean, and tend to yellow over time. Looking for an industrial alternative, he discovered filanca—a synthetic…