Who says home office lighting needs to take itself so seriously" The Analog lighting collection is inspired by the art of play.

Graphic designer Paula Scher once attributed the importance of play in opening the doorways to creativity. “I play when I design.” Unencumbered by prescriptive expectations, possibilities, often simple and easily overlooked become obvious. It’s a sentiment similarly drummed up while reviewing industrial designer Chris Granneberg’s collection of lighting designed for Gantri, a joyfully fun collection of colorful cubes offering a literal twist in form in service of function.
Image: Chris Greeneberg
Image: Chris Greeneberg
The easiest way to add joy to someone?s life is through color.
Image: Chris Greeneberg The childlike spirit effused by Granneberg’s design is rare in the task light category, where the proposition of serious work for serious people too often results in seriously staid designs. The simple, compact shapes of the Analog collection were inspired by the designer’s daughter’s LEGO collection, and whose propensity to anthropomorphize the IKEA FREKVENS inspired the “authentically playful” trio of lights. The result lands somewhere in-between the nexus of plaything, the ethos of Eames designs, and a Lightolier Lytegem.
Image: Chris Greeneberg
Image: Chris Greeneberg
“I stacked 10cm cubes into a directional task light, wall light, and floor light and rendered them in ha...