Jamie Mayne is an industrial designer currently based in Wellington, New Zealand, whose work merges the boundaries between art and design to produce intriguing pieces that are both experimental and conceptual in nature. Using refined drawing and photography skills, Mayne explores form, function and material technologies in an in-depth manner.

He's recently been working on a project called 'Ivy' - a conceptual design that combines both delicate form and new solar panel technology.

Beautiful enough in their own right, these flexible components also contain solar panels which absorb sunlight, allowing ‘Ivy’ to glow in the dark. The emergence of new types of solar panel technology offers new design potential, and through Ivy, Jamie investigated fluid or organic form and its integration with ‘solar film’, a newly developed, cheaper and more efficient solar panel.

Inspired by organic and plant-like structures, Ivy consists of a number of modular components which join together by magnets and create a long strand or ‘vine’. Photovoltaic cells charge batteries which power LED’s embedded in the component.

The beauty lies in the fact that the components are constantly glowing yet not wasting any power or resources acquired from the earth, so Ivy basks in the sunlight all day long, truly coming to life as the sun fades...