Dedié Adissem is a first-generation Togolese-American industrial designer and creative. 

Currently, he attends The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where he is majoring in Industrial Design. He believes that a way to envision a better future for all is by designing alongside people, keeping their needs in the forefront, and empowering them in the process.


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Project Title

Birth

Duration

1 week

Material

  • Glass
  • Wood


Project Summary


This project is a tribute to my mother.
The subtle dip in the form resembles the womb-like shape of a woman carrying a child, and inside this womb is a sperm-shaped egg sprouting from the log base. The fluidity of the glass captures the delicacy of birth, while the log support provides rigidity and stability, embodying the strength of mothers.

One of my favorite details in this piece is my decision to leave the cold break from the glass puntee, which represents an umbilical cord. I find this parallel ironic and poetic — just as an umbilical cord supports the life of a fetus, the puntee supports the hot glass as I shape it.

But to let the glass evolve and adapt, it must eventually leave that connection, changing form and developing new meaning from its original conception — hence the cold break.

A mother raises her child, and eventually they change, leaving to find their own meaning.
In my case, my birth led me to discover glass and wood as mediums I feel forever inseparable from — remaining tethered, in some way, to the one who made it all possible.