The problem with most light fittings is that they’re only about style: they’re the preserve of hipsters and interior designers. If you want something a little more geeky, why not make your own test tube chandelier? More »
Clapping your lights on and off is comically passe. Why make all that noise you can toggle the room’s illumination with invisible bullets? More »
Clark Griswold? Amateur. This is how you put on a light show — the 2012 Light Festival at Ghent, Belgium. And this 28 meter tall cathedral, the Luminarie Cagna, was its centrepiece. More »
Rearranging your furniture is easy enough but your lighting tends to stay where its been since you moved in — limited by the location of available outlets. Or it was limited at least, until the folks at Modern Lantern designed a table lamp that doesn’t need them. More »
If you’re anything like me, you like to keep your fleet of private jets up to date. But selling an old Airbus on Craigslist can be a pain, so artist Paul Coudamy hacks them apart and turns them into hanging lamps. More »
How do you fit a humongoid Anglepoise lamp in your home? Reduce it down to two dimensions and pack it full of LEDs, of course. Forged of birch and steel, Giles Godwin-Brown’s Nepa Lamp will sit flat on a wall, or spin out into the third dimension and totally screw with your head. I love it. [Design Milk]
When you’re trekking through the great outdoors in the middle of the night, you need your hands free for reading maps, clearing obstacles and fighting off bears. So Petzl’s new Nao headlamp makes all the brightness and focus adjustments for you. More »
If you’re prone to unintentionally killing plants, these Petal solar lights from Mohzy might be a good way to ease back into gardening. You’ll still need to ensure they get plenty of sunlight, but won’t die if you screw that up. More »
