en Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:49:34 +0800 51 TobyHouse, a London-based interdisciplinary interior design firm, has developed a lamp shade full of summer whimsy. Talk of the town at the 2009 Milan furniture fair, there’s no denying the immediacy of the associations most of us have with the form. All are made with authentic beach balls made rigi...

]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:56:21 +0800 Belgian designer Marina Bautier presents Modular, a seating system with integrated lighting, in Milan next week. The range is one of four new products Bautier is showing at Galleria Bonaparte, via Pontaccio 8/10, Milan, from 22-27 April. Here’s some info and a biography of Bautier: The basi...

]]> Sat, 02 May 2009 18:53:31 +0800 Dutch designer Bertjan Pot will exhibit a reflective, rotating lamp at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan next week. The lamp consists of three small light-shades covering three halogen bulbs, all surrounded by a fourth, larger shade. The shades are made of a transparent, reflective material and ar...

]]> Sat, 02 May 2009 18:53:30 +0800 Italian lighting manufacturer Artemide opened their Taiwan flagship store in Taipei, designed by Taiwanese architects CROX, last month. The ceiling, walls and desk consist of a single, curvilinear form made of fibre-reinforced polymer. Installed with large, glass windows, the interior is fi...

]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:33:12 +0800 Milan 09: Japanese designers Nendo will display lighting called Blown Fabric at exhibition Tokyo Fiber ‘09 Senseware in Milan later this month.The lamps are made of a thermoplastic, non-woven polyester fibre using a process similar to glass-blowing.LED bulbs in machined, aluminium sockets provide th...

]]> Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:43:45 +0800 Icelandic designer Kristín Birna Bjarnadóttir has created a lamp made of reflective material, normally used for safety clothing. The translucent, reflective shade is suspended from fishing line above an LED light source, which is placed on the floor beneath. Fine ribbons of the same reflective fab...

]]> Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:43:45 +0800 Massachusetts landscape architects Mikyoung Kim Design have completed a series of lanterns in front of the Ocean County Public Library at Toms River, New Jersey, USA.The laser-cut stainless steel and glass lanterns feature barcode patterns to represent the transmission of information in the digital ...

]]> Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:56:04 +0800 message, perhaps along the lines of “Who, me?”

]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:33:38 +0800 Joachim Manz designed the Trabant pendant lamp for German lighting manufacturer Tecnolumen. The lamps are concrete balls that hang on a thin wire, and on one end of the concrete ball is a glass lens (either matte or clear) that maintains the same curve as the rest of the ball. The lamps come in two ...

]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:33:38 +0800 Swedish designer Anu Moser has created the Nova pendant lamp collection for Norwegian lighting manufacturer Northern Lighting.    Nova is a pendant lamp series at the interface between light design, handcraft and art. The mouth blown shade of the lamp is made out of three layers of gl...

]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:33:37 +0800 The Manhattan, New York based design trio of Rich, Brilliant, Willing have released some photos of their Excel: Floor Lamp that they introduced in 2008.The three young designers (Theo Richardson, Charles Brill, and Alex Williams), all graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design, were inspired by ...

]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:33:37 +0800     Matt and I met at the Royal College of Art.  He’s a photographer and I’m a ceramicist.  The Tangle Lamp is the collecting together of some of our aesthetic interests.  I think you can see strongly Matt’s influence as a photographer on the design through the use of d...

]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:33:37 +0800 Spanish lighting design/manufacturers Luz Difusion have created the Suomi suspension lamp. From Luz Difusion: The Suomi lamp is made of 4 blocks of oak sheets, 2 cm thick, that are given a concave shape through the use of a mold. Each block is then laser cut to narrow it gradually from top to bo...

]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:26:19 +0800 Designer Ana-Maria Pasescu Stewart has created a light inspired by a hangman’s noose. The lamps are made from thick rope with a power cable woven into the middle.“It is easy to assemble and maintain, and can be easily bent to many different shapes,”says the designer. “The idea is that you would purc...

]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:26:19 +0800 A healthy classroom environment is essential for the overall growth of the students in any educational institution. However, it’s next to impossible to measure air quality and lighting with naked eyes. However, not so for the Vitalia, which essentially is a responsive device for use in a classroom. ...

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