Gadgets

This Circuit Board Lamp Loves To Expose Itself

French designer Matali Crasset created this hanging Court Circuit lamp that embraces its function as its form. It’s made from raw undisguised circuit boards embedded with LEDs, but since they’re arranged like petals on a blooming flower, there’s still an organic feel to its design.


April 22, 2012
Gadgets

You Don’t Need To Be An Origami Master To Assemble This Flat-Pack Lamp

It might look like it claimed the lives of an entire drawer full of barbecuing tools, but Tom Dixon’s simple Stamp Lamp actually starts life as a boring flat sheet of zinc-coated steel.


April 20, 2012
Gadgets

Annoying Eco-Friendly Lamp Turns Off Whenever You Close Your Eyes

As long as it doesn’t require any additional effort, people seem happy to embrace eco-friendly ideas. So to free people from having to remember to turn a light off when it’s not needed, Randy Sarafan created this handy lamp that turns off automatically whenever you close your eyes.


April 17, 2012
Gadgets

Carbon Fibre LED Lighting Is The Best Kind Of Over-Engineering

Since buildings are already engineered to be strong and, you know, not collapse, suspending even the heaviest of chandeliers from the ceiling is no problem. That’s to say there’s no rhyme or reason why a hanging light needs to be made from lightweight carbon fibre, except that it’s just plain beautiful.


April 14, 2012
Gadgets

Lucite Lamps Made Of Bricks And Springs

Netherlands-based Studio Mango has designed a clever collection of lamps made to ship in a super flatpack, using lucite coil springs and Lego-like bricks.


April 6, 2012
Gadgets

The Motorcycles That Died For These Lamps Made A Beautiful Sacrifice

We usually cringe when we see a lovely piece of hardware that’s been cannibalized for the sake of another device. But that’s not the case with Classified Moto’s lovely lamps which are only made from spare motorcycle parts.


Gadgets

Hanging Chandelier Blossoms Like An Inverted Flower

You don’t often think of a large decorative chandelier as being a bona-fide gadget. But the hanging veins on Denise Hachinger’s Kronleuchter — or crown light — raise and lower at your beckoning to focus the light or cast an ambient glow in the room.


April 4, 2012
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IKEA’s ‘Experimental’ LED Lamps Are Perfect For Lying On The Floor

For its new lighting line, “Experiments in LED”, IKEA tapped different designers to create lights that change the ambiance of a room into something trippy. And yes, they’ve all got wonderful names we don’t know how to pronounce.


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$4000 Crane Lamp Is A 1:50 Scale Model Of The Real Thing

Standing nearly 2m tall, the Crane Lamp by former Lego designer Charlie Davidson is supposedly a scale model of the largest crawler crane in the world. The huge crane portion of the lamp sits by the wall and hoists up a glass-tube light sculpture over the centre of the room.


March 28, 2012
Gadgets

Optical Illusion Turns Simple Pendant Into An Elaborate Chandelier

When design shop Troika was called upon to create a series of unique chandeliers for the Royal Society of Arts‘ headquarters in London, instead of engineering some hanging crystal monstrosity, they created a subtle fixture that barely exists when the lights are off.