Two new lighting products were recently introduced by 3M Architectural Markets, the company's interior products division, embodying their ongoing commitment to develop LED and OLED lighting solutions. The expanding LED and OLED market presents an interesting challenge for interior and lighting designers and we look foward to seeing fresh solutions in the near future.
AIR is a lightweight hoop fixture available in 3', 5' and 7' diameters and a wide range of color outputs from white light to RGB. The LED lights are dimmable and replaceable.
FLEX is a linear modular lighting system that can be curved along walls or ceilings. The system can be fully customized and is manufactured of a lightweight aluminum enclosure with a slender profile of only 1.72 in. thickness.
A CNC machine, a thin sheet of what looks like birch ply and "100 or so rivets later" Andrew Thomson had the geodesic pendant lamp you see above. Thomson's an avowed Bucky Fuller fan; when last we looked in on him, he was turning old Coroplast electioneering signs into a...
Design House Stockholm, the Scandinavian furniture and domestic products manufacturer, celebrated its 20th anniversary at NYIGF this. Founded by Anders Fandig in 1992, the company was set up to facilitate creative product development for local designers and craftspeople. They started off with a bang with Harri Koskinen's Block Lamp, a...
Recyclable though it may be, glass is among the more popular materials for upcycling projects—for which lamps are the obvious choice. (Plastic bottles are also particularly popular among DIYers, whether they're repurposed ultra-lo-fi lighting solution or a series of experimental abat-jours.) In fact, the glass bottle is an old-world touchstone...
From Milan via Coroflot: the "Teka" OLED lamp, a sculptural lighting object "inspired by Vienna museum displays, first microscopes and scientific instruments in brass." Industrial designer Alessandro Squatrito spent the eight months leading up to this year's Salone working for Aldo Cibic and Tommaso Corà of Italy's CibicWorkshop, the designers...
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