I still sleep with a nightlight, if you consider the soft pulsing glow of my Mac’s power button a light but since we’re supposed to be living in a era of “green”, we need to find a nightlight that only works while we’re awake. Let’s face, it doesn’t do a thing for us while we’re fast asleep. I’m sure there are timed nightlights out there but how about something with a little more decorum?
Designer: Sun-Young Lee
The Morpheus chandelier is shaped by the viewers’ imagination: from a circle, to a square, to an infinity sign and anything in between. The many permutations of the ten-foot diameter and 16,000 crystals Morpheus light sculpture are possible through the use of servo-motors and lead cables applying pressure to a flexible spring steel assembly.
Designer: Yves Behar [ Manufacturer: Swarovski ]
This odd amoeba looking lamp is actually made from broken tempered glass coated with a silicone lining. This affords it the kind of malleability that Play-Do would be jealous of. The edge of the lamp is lined with white LEDs. The idea is to bend and fold it anyway you please to get different types of lighting effects. The shattered glass helps create interesting reflections.
Designer: Ira Rozhavsky
This is kind of cool. It’s a lamp with the lighting filament shaped like a plant. The cord also acts as a support structure so it looks like the plant is growing out of the wall socket. So cool! I think they should take this concept a step further and make a chandelier that looks like sprawling vines. My only question is green; how environmentally sound is this? I mean, we’re all supposed to be moving away from incandescent lighting right?
Designer: Felix de Pass
OMG it’s floating! No actually it’s a cleverly designed system of support frames and stretch lycra. Yes I said lyrca. The Bouncy Bedside Table invokes mushy dream images of surfaces you might be familiar with during your nightly sleeps; how everything seems to be able to change at an instance. The surface changes shapes under the weight of different objects you place on it – sorta like your dreams.
Designer: Ira Rozhavsky
As the name suggests, the Marrakesh is inspired by ancient design concepts. Its inspiration derives from Chinese lattice works, and the Middle Eastern concept of Aniconism, the basis of much of Islamic art. This yields a light as innovative as it is practical.
Designer: Mindspring
Like a mass blob of light morphing, taking shape into an complex structure, Lamp Globes take in earnest in being organic while functional. An experiment by designer Veronica Eklund, she messed with art glass and utility goods to come up with varying shapes.
Designer: Veronica Eklund
Tile is a clean, unique, playful, contemporary, and multifunctional LED lighting device. Because of its modular nature with the unique joints that allow the lighting units to rotate in both X axis and Z axis, it functions as a work lamp, a floor lamp, and a wall lamp. It can also reconfigure into a decorative lighting device that provoke the mood of the environments.
Designer: Gary Yu
Ever wish you could untether your lamp and move it around at will. Be it a little party you’re throwing or just to change the mood. It’s usually more trouble than it’s worth. The Nomadic Lamp is perfectly suited for such a situation.
Designer: Dorota Kulawik
I once worked with a photographer that thoroughly believed everyone would look better if they carried around their own lighting. I’ve also worked with a scientist who believed men and women would have an easier time understanding each other if they could communicated thru flashes of light.
They would both approve of the Sumi lamp, a lamp for every moment.
Designer: Ben Collette
Luminos are bricks in darkness. Like a candle needs a fire to light it up, Luminos, which have light sensors and LEDs, need light to turn the LEDs on. This is a simple and intuitive interaction yet it has the possibility of complexity of a chain reaction created by configurations of Luminos like dominoes and bricks.
Designer: Tomoaki Yanagisawa
The brightness of this lamp adjusts easily with a turn of its shade. By consolidating the light source itself and the switch that controls the dimmer into one fixture, the lamp allows users to feel as though they’re touching light itself.
Designer: Nendo Studio [ Manufacturer: Oluce ]
Created by two young Chilean architects and lighting designers, Ximena Munoz and Paulina Villalobos, the Anemix is a lighting system that creates unique 3D effects. Its a panel composed by a luminescent and a reflective layer, which can be modified to create a wide range of visual effects. It uses Osram LED technology to be the light source of this system, as its efficient, small and with a very low cost of maintenance.
Designer: Ximena Munoz & Paulina Villalobos
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