Domino's SecondHandLogos.com GadgetSponge Repurposed Lamp Project Update #1
Hey friends! It's time to update you on the progress of the Domino's (Pizza) repurposed lamp. This project is in conjunction with Domino's national SecondHandLogos.com campaign to repurpose their old signage and materials as they switch to their new identity of Domino's.
Things are coming along nicely.
The first thing I did was take an instore sign and cut it in half so that just "Domino's" showed. I then masked it off and and painted the sides a red simliar to the company colors. This piece will play some part in the later piece.
For the main body of the lamp I paired the two "z" letters from "Pizza" to make a diagonal new graphic shape. I attached the two letter bodies with flattened pipe hangers and in between them with nuts and bolts.
Here's the letters paired up now. I left room between them so I could take the letter tops back off and on as I worked on the project.
Next step was to run a lamp assembly shaft through the body with is not easy to keep it 90 degrees from base. This will run up to light the top body (car topper) down the road.
I knew from day one that I wanted to use a pizza pan as the base for the lamp. I also needed to raise it up so that the power cord could come out of the bottom and out the side safely......
I used a vintage silverplate decorative platter to get the height I need under the pizza pan base.
Here's a dry assembly of the letters on the base now. Up top is the modified signage element that I showed above that I'll use later in the piece.
Now I needed to create some pieces to block off the tops of the lamp for a more finished look and so the ugly lamp shaft wouldn't be so visible.
Here's the piece I cut for the bottom. There are four custom wood pieces in total.
I gave the custom cut pieces a distressed metallic finish and mounted them to the letters from the inside of the letter cases.
After sitting on my stool in the garage for way longer than I want to admit, I finally figured out a way that I was comfortable with placing the car topper on top of the lamp in a way that the bulb could be changed easily by the future owner. I decided to go with these long eye lag screws. They will have matched holes in the bottom of the car topper. The car topper will slide down on the screws and rest of top of the letter body. This will make the top secure but still easily removable.
Here's a glimpse of the original wiring inside the car topper. I had to remove all of the hardware (and save) to get the metal place on the bottom ready for future mounting holes and prep for the lamp shade assembly to come up through it.
