the campaign for better lamps

I was inspired to build a glowing tribute to a Minnesota political candidate this weekend based on the plans in Readymade Magazine for a “for sale” lamp. The basic material is a plastic corrugated yard sign. I wanted to make a Paul Wellstone lamp because then I would have a green lamp. But a quick call to the Wellstone headquarters reviled that their lawn signs are made out of cardboard with a waxy finish. That wouldn’t do. So I turned to the Tim Penny for Governor campaign and found what I needed. my lamp is orange. Unfortunately the blue lettering on the sign is very opaque and doesn’t allow much light through. Also, I had to do a lot of improvising from the Magazine’s design as they didn’t mention that the metal frames come in different sizes. That messed me up good. I plan to improve vastly on this design and find the premium piece of corrugated plastic to do so.