Hold Your Ideas: Anshuman’s Bloom Lamp

The spark

The Bloom series began as a distillation of a larger piece Anshuman called Shroom, refined into a portable format. The guiding metaphor is simple and strong: blooming. He was drawn to the upward spiral of petals reaching for light and to the rhythmic growth of a 3D print building layer by layer. Organic and mechanical motions fused into one design language of layered, spiraling growth from base to tip.

“Watching the filament spiral upward mirrored the organic growth of a flower.”

Intent: mood, function, and material

Bloom solves a small daily need: a warm, wire-free light for a desk or coffee table. The primary driver is mood. Translucent bio-plastic and a canopy-like geometry soften and diffuse light to create a gentle glow that feels calm and intentional.

References and feasibility

Anshuman worked from both imagination and constraints. 3D printing enabled thin fluted surfaces and complex spiral ridges that would be costly or impractical with traditional methods, while physical references from existing products grounded feasibility.

Vizcom in the loop

For Anshuman, Vizcom acts like an accelerant to a designer’s instincts, opening many directions in a fraction of the usual time. When constraints are clear, he starts by hand to lock intent, then moves digital. When exploration is wide open, he jumps straight into Vizcom to seed and iterate ideas quickly.

“Vizcom feels like a magical accelerant for ideation.”

Serendipity and iteration

Happy accidents matter. Quick visual experiments revealed unexpected details that enriched the final form. New Vizcom features like Modify and Variate became go-to tools for rapid changes without losing the core direction.

From screen to object

The boundary between digital and physical is dissolving. Designers can ideate, visualize, and convert concepts into 3D-ready files in a single flow, then realize them with digital manufacturing like 3D printing. For Bloom, that meant moving from spiral studies on screen to layered flutes you can touch.

What changes when you can hold it

Seeing the lamp at scale sharpened decisions about rim thickness, flute depth, and translucency. Subtle tweaks to proportions improved how the canopy catches and softens light. (Show before-after stills or a GIF flipping between iterations.)

Notes to fellow designers

Anshuman’s advice: use speed to your advantage. Combine GenAI tools like Vizcom with hands-on making to fail fast, validate early, and scale only what works. Stay curious and empathetic, and let the people you serve guide tool, material, and process choices

“Small, focused experiments beat big bets made too late.”

Design: Anshuman Kumar — [anshumankr.com] and @anshuman_design.labs
Visualization: Vizcom
Fabrication: 3D printed in translucent bio-plastic
Photography: Anshuman

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