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By Carly Ayres - Feb 23
Blowing Glass Into High-Performance Pillowcases, or How Bocci Created Its Cloudlike Pendant Lights
The project began after Bocci's creative director coerced a pilot friend into showing him his airplane. “My friend is showing me the engine and there’s this fabric bag," Omer Arbel says. "It struck me immediately. It was pristinely white in this engine of all gray or black pieces.”
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By Kat Bauman - Feb 19
New Lights In The Dark: LlumBCN 2015
Highlights from Barcelona's festival of light, LlumBCN15
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By Rain Noe - Jan 27
iViTi ON: The Lightbulb that Stays On When the Power Goes Out
Those that live in blackout-prone areas don't keep their flashlights in the back of a drawer. Instead it's in some easily-accessible place, so they don't have to fumble around looking for it when the lights go out. UK-based lighting manufacturer iViTi reckons they've solved this with their LED iViTi ON,...
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By anki - Jan 26
Cologne Design Week 2015: Best of IMM Cologne Pure Talents
Corinna Sy and Sebastian Daeschle from cuculaEvery January, the international furniture and interiors show IMM Cologne covers a vast area of exhibition space along the Rhine with more than 1,200 exhibitors showing their work to over 120,000 visitors. While parts of the show can become a little monotonous...
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By anki - Jan 22
Cologne Design Week: KISD's LABOR Design n+1 exhibition for Passagen
Our first stop during Cologne's design week is Passagen, a collection of 190 exhibitions scattered throughout the north part of the city. Off the beaten path for people who are more used to strolling through more established hubs and brands, the chilly walk lead...
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By Rain Noe - Jan 01
Repurposing Old Headlights into Lamps
My first New Year's resolution for 2015 is to re-use more old things. And the guys over at Berlin-based Urban Light Factory already have the jump on me. First off their products come to you in wooden boxes made out of scrap and cut-offs:Secondly is what's inside the boxes--unique, vintage-looking...
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By Rain Noe - Dec 29, 2014
SVA Student's Object-Sensitive Infinity Mirror Table
For her "Making Studio" course at SVA's Products of Design program, designer Louise-Anne van 't Riet came up with a neat side table that encourages you to be neat. Called Infinitum, it's an object-sensitive side table ringed with LEDs beneath the surface; though the lights only run one layer deep,...
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By Rain Noe - Dec 23, 2014
Philippe Starck Wears Many Hats. So Does His Latest Lamp Design
Philippe Starck is known for eclecticism, so perhaps we oughtn't be surprised that his latest design is in a category of its own. The Chapo, as it's called, is a combination lamp and hat-stand.The aluminum lamp is well modern, with LED illumination, an optical dimmer in the base (that little...
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By Rain Noe - Dec 08, 2014
The Light Bandit Lets You Plug Sunlight Directly Into a No-Electricity Lamp
It seems absurd to be burning energy by using lightbulbs while the sun is shining, but buildings can only have so many windows, and sunlight can only penetrate so far. MIT's Solar Bottle Bulb and Ross Lovegrove's Sun Tunnel are two ways to get sunlight inside, but both solutions require...
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By Rain Noe - Nov 21, 2014
Big Ass Lights: How Direct Sales Can Lead to Better Product Design
We've periodically covered Big Ass Fans (here and here), the Kentucky-based company that shrewdly changed their name from High Volume Low Speed Fan Company. Due to their no-nonsense marketing approach, the efficient, sturdy design of their product and periodic design refreshes, they've grown into something like the Dyson of overhead...
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By Rain Noe - Nov 14, 2014
Edison Light Globes, Part 2: Brassy & Classy Steampunk-Style Lamp Fixtures
As beautiful as Edison Light Globes' bulbs are, it is their lamp designs that really shine, if you'll pardon the pun. The company's deep line-up of fixtures are heavy on brass and exposed hardware, yielding steampunkish pieces like this Multi Bulb Heavy Table Lamp with adjustable neck:You've seen lamps made...
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By Rain Noe - Nov 14, 2014
Edison Light Globes, Part 1: Lightbulbs of the Past and Future
LEDs are the wave of the future, but plenty of folks aren't ready to give up Edison-style filament bulbs for their classic aesthetic. What's a manufacturer to do? in the case of Australia-based Edison Light Globes, the answer is to make both.For those that need to see a burning wire,...
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By Rain Noe - Nov 06, 2014
Why Is Gatwick Airport Installing Blue LED Lighting on Their Train Platforms?
In "Things We'd Like to See: Subway Stations with Better Lighting" we showed you Paris' gorgeous Arts et Metier metro stop and a conceptual design for a sunlit underground station. But since then little has been done in the real world to change subway lighting.Little, but not nothing. This week...
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By Ray Hu - Nov 05, 2014
Let There Be Bread: Yukiko Morita's Freshly Baked Lamps
Now that jack-o-lantern season is behind us, we can look forward to two months of bacchanalian gluttony can begin (followed, of course, by the guilt and sobriety of yet another new year). But if you miss the warm glow of foodstuffs that have been 'creatively repurposed' as lamps, Japanese designer...
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By Rain Noe - Nov 05, 2014
Nendo Figures Out How to Make Bi-Color Washi
Washi is a type of old-school paper made in Japan. Plant pulp and water are mixed and collected on screens, and after drying, fresh sheets of the stuff are pulled off. Though tissue-like in appearance, washi is reasonably tough, making its long production time worth the wait. It's typically made...
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By Rain Noe - Oct 14, 2014
LumiLor Electroluminescent Coating Has Some Serious Untapped Potential
"Everything can be a lamp with LumiLor," writes Darskide Scientific, the company that developed it. LumiLor is a patented coating that glows when a current is applied to it. (And yes, it's safe to touch, as it's sealed and insulated.) The brilliance of the system is that since it's water-based,...
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By Rain Noe - Sep 30, 2014
Floating Drone Lamps Would Be Freaking Amazing
We've seen drones used or proposed for package delivery, elaborate selfies, action sports capture, movie promotion, and even weather control. But a recent creative collaboration points to the possibility of a more domestic usage that we think could be the killer drone app of the future: How about floating lamps?...
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By Rain Noe - Aug 27, 2014
IKEA's Future Products to Contain Flexible, Light-Emitting Tiles
Don't let the bland name of Scottish start-up Design LED Products fool you. At last year's Lux Live 2013 lighting exhibition, DLP showed off the flexible resin-based LED tile you see above, considered to be a potential game-changer in lighting design. The tiles are flexible, modular, inexpensive, highly efficient (roughly...
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By erika - Jul 16, 2014
Skylights for Everyone: Productivity-Boosting Optical Illusions for the Office (and Beyond)
An installation at Kingwood Medical in Houston, TexasFor those of us who live on the top floors of the pre-war walk-up buildings that line the streets of certain New York neighborhoods, a skylight can be a perk—not enough to make up for the five flights of stairs, perhaps, but at...
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By erika - May 28, 2014
NY Design Week 2014: Getting Lit at Intro/NY
Photo by Alex Welsh The white walls of INTRO/NY made for the perfect display space for the venue's ample lighting designs. All of the weekend's shows had a good mix of design genres, but lighting fixtures—from wire task lamps to magnetic standing tube varieties—seemed to be on Smallpond founder Paul Valentine's...
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By Christie Nicholson - May 14, 2014
New Light Panel Technology: Imagine Having a Ceiling Skylight on the 1st Floor of a Multistory Building
Summer sunlight can change my mood, and I don't suffer from seasonal affective disorder. It's hard to ignore the positive feeling one gets from sunlight streaming through a window. Soon you'll be able to bring sunshine to any cloudy day and even into a dark windowless cave. Or even better,...
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By erika - Apr 28, 2014
The Great Indoors: Horst Philipp's 'Hayman' Lamp Brings a Bit of the Outdoors Inside
As the seasons are changing, there's no better time to introduce a little bit of the outdoors to your indoor decor. Some of may choose flowers or houseplants, but Pudelskern designer Horst Philipp has created something for those looking for something a little, ehm, different. Introducing: His lamp, Heumandl ("Hayman"...
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By Rain Noe - Apr 18, 2014
Michiel Cornelissen's 3D-Printed ZooM Lampshade Expands from a Small Build Envelope
3D-print-happy designer Michiel Cornelissen is at it again. To create his clever ZooM lampshade, Cornelissen has adopted the trick we first saw Sklyar Tibbits messing around with, where you print something small and made out of interlocking pieces that can then be stretched out to occupy a greater volume. In...
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By Moa Dickmark - Apr 02, 2014
Creative Minds: Elisa Cavani of Manoteca
A few years ago, I saw a picture of a desk that captured my eye. I can't remember exactly where I saw it—perhaps it was this very blog—I just remember not being able to stop thinking about it. I searched the Internet to find out who had created this lovely...
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By Moa Dickmark - Mar 27, 2014
Creative Minds: Jonas Hojgaard of Nordic Tales
This is the beginning of an interview series about young entrepreneurs around the globe working within the creative fields such as photography, product design, fashion and music just to mention a few.Below you find the very first interview which is about Jonas Hojgaard and his up and coming Danish furniture...
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By erika - Mar 26, 2014
Fifti Fifti's Perforated Take-Off Light: A Different Kind of DIY Lamp Shade
Fifti Fifti's Take-Off Light is fitting for two kinds of people: the DIY-inclined and those with a habit of poking holes through paper. You know who I'm talking about—the people who can't keep their hands from haphazardly crumpling and drowsily stabbing scratch paper with pens during meetings (guilty as charged)....
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By erika - Mar 12, 2014
Things That Look Like Other Things: Antenna Light
While the days of scratchy television channels and sending the man of the house up to tinker around with the reception antenna are nearly obsolete—thanks to the likes of Netflix and Hulu—there are still ways to enjoy the inconveniences of the past. The Antenna Light by Joy Charbonneau is one...
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By erika - Jan 13, 2014
It's a Chandelier... It's an Installation... No, It's a Map!
The Global Data Chandelier—a big name for an equally sizable installation (physically and in theory)—is more of an infographic of sorts than anything else. Created for the Center for Strategic and International Studies' new headquarters in Washington D.C. by Sosolimited, Hypersonic Engineering & Design, Plebian Design and Chris Parlato, the...
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By Ray Hu - Jan 09, 2014
Get Cozy with the Plumen 002, the Second Sculptural CFL from the Lighting Innovators
We were there for the launch of the instantly iconic torqued helix of the Plumen 001, the radical compact fluorescent lamp that elevated the lowly light bulb to eco-conscious design object status. Since its debut in 2010, the helical CFL has become an award-winning, museum-worthy icon, even as the Edison...
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By erika - Jan 09, 2014
Living Lamps: More Like Desktop Pets Than a Light Source (and Who Doesn't Want One of Those?)
Junior isn't just a task light. Like Bob de Graaf's "Species of Illumination," Junior is a whimsical living lamp that depends on your breath to keep his energy up. By breathing toward the lamp, Junior lights up—literally and figuratively—into the perfect playful midday distraction. This all being said, it's probably...
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By erika - Jan 02, 2014
Turn Me On Design Lights Up a Canadian Street While Transforming It Into a Comic Book of Sorts
On Avenue Mont-Royal in Montreal, you'll find just what you'd expect—gaggles of traffic making their way through cold temperatures, quaint storefronts, natives and tourists bouncing from door to door and old-fashioned street lights at every corner. But those aren't the only lights shining up the sidewalks. Turn Me On Design...
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By erika - Dec 06, 2013
'A Man Named Zero': Come for the Performance Art, Stay for the Lights
We're always interested to see how technology increasingly enables new combinations of mediums for artwork, such as a recent work of performance art that stars a carefully choreographed set of 60 lamps—exposed tungsten bulbs on an arcing wood frame—along with the performers themselves, all set to an electronic score. "A...
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By erika - Nov 18, 2013
From Trash Pile to Fully Functional: the Rough Lamp from Compeixalaigua Design Studio is Anything But
Sometimes great designs come from leftover waste—look no further than Pothra planters, shipping pallet chairs and clothes hangers made of bike parts are three examples that prove it. We've got another design that's giving new life to old materials: Rough from Barcelona-based Compeixalaigua Design Studio is a clean update...
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