Distinctive and interactive, this lamp from Co.Design is completely different from regular pedant lamps, as it comes with no switch, but instead features a string that lets you turn on/off or change the emitting light via a simple motion of pulling.
Turn on a bulb, to display the interesting process of a bubble getting bigger and then disappearing… Really cool lamp designs from Italy!
Surrounded by dull concrete every day, people nowadays are always looking for something special, bright, smart or weird to give their common life a sparkling shine of light. Fortunately, the lighting unit designed by Asobi deserves our attention: made from lightweight carbon fiber, the lights can be ordered in 4, 6, and 12 LED configurations that spread out in all directions just like a spider’s web. It’s nothing to do with elegance or entertainment, but the light itself is really unique in pattern and function.
Exercise to power, the ‘Citylight’ Concept is an innovative design that attaches exercise equipment to streetlights and thus utilizes the kinetic energy people create to energize LED lamps in the light system.
Why does designer Charlie Davidson place a huge crane inside his home? You won’t find the answer until the dark night comes and the light is turned on… Look, the huge crane is actually a floor lamp that can decorate your home and brighten up your night as well.
Taking mini-sized table lamps to a new level, designer Peter Stathis‘ Levity LED lamp is one that can hide inside the table when not in use, while offers light from different directions if you pull it out and turn it on.
Daddy Long Legs in the famous novel is obviously different from this table lamp put forward by Produkt of Design, but they all feature really long legs that impress us quite much. The lamp here, which is both adjustable and functional, can change its legs into various shapes, either providing a unique appearance or serving as a simple bookshelf.
Yes, yes, my house is very charming, with bright white walls, good-colored floors, well-designed furniture, and Rooftop Ceiling Lights!! Though the ceilings used to be easily ignored by people, they will never act that way anymore, after Hamburg and Berlin based company Lightboys have brought us with these delicately-designed ceiling lights. They’re clever combinations of large format photographs and common ceiling lights, each featuring a classical domed roof to add some romance to your houses.
Although LED technology has already been widely used in our daily life, there’re still some LED related products we seldom know or use, and one on that list is rightly the LED Light Strips. It is thin and waterproof, ideal for both indoors and outdoors use, capable of serving as night lights or decorative lights. According to your needs, you may cut the strips into various sizes as well.
Chemistry and art are two separate words that seemingly would never have any connections, but designer Pani Jurek’s “Maria S.C. Lamp” has now brought them together. Looking like a crystal chandelier, the lamp is actually made from chemistry test tubes placed into circular plywood bands. It seems completely nice when without anything in the tubes, but the result becomes more amazing when each tube is filled with colored liquid or inserted with flowers.
Yes, here comes the dark night, but the sun has never gone away: actually the sunshine is turned into warm and beautiful light, to decorate your room and to brighten up your night.
“Switch” is a liquid cooled lightbulb that combines analog and digital technology to bring light into your home. It was showcased during the CES2012, coming with a digital driver in the base and some LEDs mounted on the top. With the digital driver to monitor the bulb’s temperature all the time, the fluid inside the glass globe will draw heat from the LEDs if the temperature is too high. Such a unique function not only allows these lightbulbs to be used more widely, but ensures them a better lightening result. As an additional bonus, each component of the bulbs is reusable or recyclable, making them also ideal for the eco-friendly lifestyle.
The world’s first cloud-based LED lighting system was recently launched by Japan-based Net LED Technology Company. It’s called NetLED system, composed of LED tube with built-in Wi-Fi as well as a free NetLed app. After installing the NetLed app on your smartphone, tablets or other devices and replaced your lights with the NetLED tubes, you can then control individual, multiple, or a set of lights via the app: to dim the lights (each tube has 10 different dimming levels), to turn them on or off, or to track energy usage in real-time. Net LED says that when a company, for instance, installs 200 of these lights, its power consumption can be reduced down by up to 50%.
Ever felt that you’re in lack of sunshine? If so, you may have a try of Sunset Laboratories’s Solar Pills. Obviously they’re not suitable for oral use, but instead substitutes to nightlights or other kind of lamps. Whenever you need some light, “take” some pills and you can then feel reenergized, will you? Available in a wide range of solar radiation, Borabora, the Maldives, Haiti and the Bahamas, these pills should not replace natural exposure.
Flaca, which is Spanish for skinny, is an ultra-thin foldable lamp completely laser-cut from a piece of stainless steel. It’s easy to assemble in just five steps, requiring no other tools but only your bare hands. The lamp is adjustable too, offering various heights to meet your different needs.
Work smarter, not merely harder. FLEXiT is an ultra-flexible light that can be wrapped around tubes, bent into tight corners or magnetically fastened onto metal objects to serve as different types of lights: table light, camping light, work light, directional light and so on. Except for it adjustable shapes, the FLEXiT’s light functions can be changed too, offering low, medium and high light according to your various needs.
While human’s love for light resulted in the invention of bulbs and lamps, Calabarte’s love for beautiful light art has brought us these amazing lamps made out of hollowed and dried skin of the gourd fruit. They seem bit of ordinary when not turned on, but really fabulous (exactly, beyond the words) as the light comes out of them. Sold? We don’t know but we all hope it is launched to the market so that we could get the best gift for the Christmas.
What will the next-generation fluorescent lights be like? “D’Light” from H_Design can offer us a possible answer. Made of heat resistant tempered silicone material and LEDs, the D’Light is expandable and durable, saves both your efforts to install the light tube and your money spent on electricity bills. It can fit into different sizes of lights too, and all you need to do is to hook it to one end and expand the length to the other side. Easy and practical as that!
Apparently the 2011 Red Dot Design Concept has brought us with many innovative designs, except for those we’ve introduced before, the Adjustable Radiation Flashlight is another one we’d like to show you. It could shift between concentrated spot-light and wide flood-light modes, based on its flexible plastic plate which contains about 40 individual lights. Hence even though it is designed as one light, the gadget is actually something serving as several different types of lights.
Why are designers so innovative? Almost every time I met some new designs I would ask myself that question. So you know, that question emerged again, after I accidentally saw the AudioBulb, Wireless Speaker Light Bulbs that bring both light and music to your home. It’s easy to use: simply replace ordinary bulbs with the AudioBulb, insert you iPod into the included dock, and then you’ll hear beautiful music coming from any places of your house. With warm light filled with your rooms, the AudioBulb is certainly the best thing related to the word “romantic”.
Cleverly combining light and shadow together, the giant OLED mirror collaborated by rAndom International and Chris O’Shea would feel the human’s movement and thus to interact in the term of either light or mirrors. Stand still, and the panels act like mirrors, but when you’re on the move, the OLED pixels then light up. The other interacting type is totally different, as wherever you go would become mirrors with the left parts still act as light. It’s very magical, and now the You Fade to Light has been produced in a limited edition of just eight units, each is selling for €140,000. So if you don’t think it’s exciting enough to watch them in the video, you may consider getting home one such piece.
How are we going to live the future? According to Philips, in the next few years we should be using wall-mounted vats of bioluminescent bacteria as night light. That sounds bit of weird? Not exactly. Good news is that you don’t need to pay for the electricity bills any more, but instead you have to feed the bacteria with some household waste (which has been digested by other bacteria to form methane gas) so that the bacteria will provide soft green light at night.
Mickey bulbs for Mickey fans. From designer Hong-kue Lee, these LED lights are especially created for kids, to bring them closer to the world that Mickey lives in.
Launched by Japan-based Panasonic, this is the world’s first LED bulb that uses clear glass to show the light source. It features a single filament, coming with a power of 4.4 watts while lasting for over 40,000 hours. Requiring no time to get prepared, the bulb offers 100% of the light once you switch it on, and thus quite ideal for public places like the stairs and toilets. As a bonus, the bulb is announced to get a high efficiency, even remaining high lumen of 70% at end of life.
Any design that features a high efficiency while a low cost is always appreciated, especially when they can bring something good to the environment. That’s why we love the concept of the Inflatable Solar Power Light, an inflatable, waterproof bag built with an LED bulb inside. It can get charged with a solar cell and comes with a battery that holds enough electricity for six hours of light on the low setting. As the light is designed for developing countries that lack electricity, it would be sold at a low price after its launch in January of 2012.
The stability of wood and the elasticity of spring are seemingly two completely opposite characters, however in the “Lights Up” Nakarin Kemseela has successfully combined that two characters together by designing an adjustable wood frame lampshade. The result is quite amazing, coz the lamp not only features an interesting aesthetic, but also emphasizes big convenience for users to freely adjust the quantity of light. Fabulous!
Made of energy-efficient LED light and translucent fibers, the Hobo Lantern is a stylish bag that also doubles as a portable luminary. It was inspired by the urban nightlife of Zona Tortona during Design Week, and via the design Todd MacAllen aims to offer people some fashionable and functional accessories. Powered by 8 AA batteries, the Hobo can be safely used even when the LED light is turned on, and you may find it fabulous to go across the streets with a glowing bag.
Question marks seem to appear everywhere in our life and now they even come as furniture. Designed by Tembolat Gugkaev, the new closet not only decorates your room but also brings light to it since it is built with a lamp on one side. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Artist Kelly Lamb’s Skull Chandelier is a hanging light that comes with a special shape of a human skull. To make such a light, you first need to hang some tiny lightbulbs from the ceiling and then arrange them into the shape of a skull. Cool, and we bet the chandelier will appear to be more fantastic when it shines in the dark. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Are there any methods, except for refreshing their appearances or changing their functionalities, which can bring us new unique lamps? Nodded with yes, London designer Roger Arquer has put forward the Touch Lamp Vase that is switched on/off by touching flowers in the adjoining vase. But why could it do that? [Read the rest of this entry...]
Surprised, ordinary sugar can be used as a sustainable resource to make lamps? But of course you may need other materials when to make a Crystallized Sugar LED Lamp as that of Won Joon Lee’s. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Commonly we see cartoonists use a lightbulb to present an idea or a thought rushing into the mind, but here we’ll see Solovyovdesign’s new bulbs in the same shape of your brain. They may look bit of weird, but we do hope your brains can create innovative ideas everyday just as the bulb lights up everyday. [Read the rest of this entry...]
A best combination of simplicity and functionality is the main goal of modern designs. Among numerous works created by designers all around the world, we find these LZF Lamps really deserve our introduction because they’ve achieved simple but incredible aesthetic effects with utilization of wood veneer shades. Awesome. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Ordinary lamps can never go behind desks for finding your because they’re not flat enough to do that, but fortunately you now have a new lamp that illuminate almost any spaces. It is the Looksoflat Lamp. The design is constructed of several LED bulbs and thus features a maximized simplicity. And its functionality? Don’t worry about that, as the lamp performs really well. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The market barely provides ideal lamps essential for modern lifestyle, giving rooms a romantic or hip-hop look. Addressing that issue, someone has come up with these Modular Lights-something that can be reassembled to meet your particular needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This particular lamp is named as the “LED Rope.” It’s designed by Christian Haas to bring light into your environment and features a fabulously cunning combination of advanced LED lights with cute textile knots. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Shaped like a piano and also named as a piano, these LED lamps allow you to produce a melody of light as your fingers slide across their keys. Something more impressive is that the illumination will be adjusted if you press these keys with various amounts of strength. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Each of the Balloon Lights designed by Uli Budde for Veritgo Bird is composed of a built-in LED, giving out soft and warm light when in use. But what makes them really charming is the balloon shape, and that endows these lights with a cute look. [Read the rest of this entry...]
KAWS has recently launched a limited edition of 1000 sets of bulbs, all of which feature a “XX” pattern. Each set contains three bulbs in various colors, including red, purple and green. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Hi, I’m a tea bag, but bit of different from conventional ones you’ve ever met. Because I can illuminate your night! My body is made from recyclable materials and I’m endowed with the ability to absorb the sunlight during the daytime. So with me, you’ll save much energy and money, doesn’t that sound great? Just get me home and I’ll be a good companion to you. [Read the rest of this entry...]
