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Maxwell Sims

Maxwell Sims is a product designer from Canada. He aims to find an intersection where expression and practicality meet.

Maxwell Sims is a Toronto-based designer exploring how materials, form, and meaning shape the built environment. Exhibited internationally, including in New York and Paris, his projects reflect an ongoing interest in how macro and micro decisions coalesce as phsyical products. His projects have been featured in publications such as Dezeen and Design Milk.

He studied Industrial Design at OCAD University in Toronto, and The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen and his work spans areas such as research and product development.

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Materials: Cardstock, lighting components, push pin
Dimensions: 30cm x 40cm x 10cm

A ubiquitous way to fasten paper to the wall is with a push pin, I thought it would be interesting to make a paper sconce that used that familiar action. Additionally the goal was to preserve the paperness of the paper. The result is a sort of half shade that emerges from a flat plane, partially still a sheet of paper and partially a three-dimensional shape.

The thick cotton-based paper is structured enough that it doesn't require an internal frame to prop it up, the scored pleats give the paper a line to bend on should it be bumped into or smushed. The shade is made with one piece using a sort of pop-up card logic and mounted to a thicker paperboard to stabilize it. Shown here in three different shades of printmaking paper meant to subtly contrast the colour that walls may be traditionally painted.