Light Bricks, a Dynamic Interactive System
Light Bricks is a dynamic interactive, transforming wall built from autonomous but interconnected units. The wall is composed of basic bricks which are simple lights bricks designed to grow any colour they are instructed. There is a more sophisticated system with a camera that captures the image which is reproduced on the light bricks.
Magnetic 4-Ball Color Changing Lamp
This beautiful lamp has four balls powered by a low voltage power rod so there’s no shock when touched. You can place the LED balls to either side of the rod and adjust them with magnets. You can even choose which one you want to switch on or off. Each lamp’s battery is recharged from the rod.
Tuba By Mathmos
The Tuba by Mathmos creates the illusion of not really knowing whether the central space has depth or not. What looks like a solid illuminated disc in the centre is actually an open space, a void that is brightly illuminated. Mathmos Tuba actually senses your hand entering this void and changes the color or the current function. Alternatively, the Mathmos Tuba can be set to react to music, cycling through a color changing sequence along with the “beat” or your favorite music.
Design Emulation Kit
This kit is made of three parts which are snapped off, fitted together, and plugged into a nine-volt battery. Now a guardian angel watches over you.
Kozom Light By Alexandre Berthiaume
The Kozom light by Alexander Berthiaume is a wonderful lamp made of vinyl. Each piece is hand-made from inflated vinyl balls that were put together to form a beautiful grape.
Balloon Lamp By Kouichi Okamoto
Kouichi Okamoto‘s first name, Kou, means “light” in Japanese, so it’s perhaps natural that this young designer became so attracted to it. His passion for innovative light design certainly shines in the products he has created. He looked into the past and took a hint from the Japanese lamp called the chochin. The lamp is made with a rubber ballon and LED. It’s an incandescent light because you can’t swich it off and it has a shelf life of 100 hours.
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
One of the most innovative figures in 20th-century art, Flavin used fluorescent light as his medium. He became a key exponent of minimalism in the early 1960s.
Link [via Guardian Unlimited]
Iluminar
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“From the darkness to the light”: Iluminar is not a design exhibition about the light but a light exhibition about the design.
Leading by our favorite designer Fernando and Humberto Campana, the exhibition is bringing together 250 masterpiece of lighting signed by more than 100 designer.
The scenario, from darkness to light and back again, is inspired by the rhythm of the day, as well as seasons, and life. They reenact the colors of a day and bring you to a fantastic world of colors.
Titania Luceplan
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Designed by Paolo Rizzatto and Alberto Media, Titania is a striking, and truly unique light. Five pairs of polycarbonate interchangeable filters determine the varying colours of its lamellar body. In fact Titania can be coloured as desired, by a simple movement of the hand to slot the different filters in and out and to give the lamp a “dematerialized” colour from.
Jess Shaw Light
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Where are we? in the clouds? In cotton batting ? Or most likely it’s just snowing. Jess‘ show draws us into this lovely light made of very basic material: nylon and wire. Immerse yourself into those dreamy bubbles.
Glo Chandelier
Glo-Chandelier, a trompe l’oeil chandelier, is a perfect conversation piece that adds style and elegance to any interior. A teeny thin strip of light rests behind a double-sided canvas that has undergone dye-sublimation printing, creating the illusion of a chandelier on a two-dimensional surface that hangs on your wall.
Light Table By Pablo
A low setting glowing cocktail tabletop that is perfect for any home living area, lounge, or wherever you like to entertain. The Light Table is also suitable for displaying photos and other objects of desire. Available with white translucent acrylic top with clear acrylic support ends.
Bright Feet Slippers
Now you can easily move handsfree around a darkened house and efficiently reduce the risk of tripping over objects or running into doors, furniture or anything not easily seen in the dark.
With the Bright Feet Slippers, you don’t have any excuses if you still make noise when your wake up in the middle of the night…
(via gizmodo)
Bendant Lamp By Mioculture
The Bendant Lamp is a flat-packed chandelier composed of a series of leaf-like shades set around a central fixture. The shades can be bent up or down, creating unique light and shadow arrangements. Made from laser-cut, powder coated stell, this lamp is a visually stunning and flexible design. It should be noted that this wonderful product is 100% recyclable.
Bocci By Omer Arbel
Omer Arbel is a young designer who created a cast glass pendant lamp design called Bocci. Since then, a whole company has formed around the product to manufacture it. The No.14 pendant series are a family of low voltage lighting products, which are articulated seamed cast glass spheres with frosted cylindrical void into which a halogen light bulb is inserted. These pendants are designed to be clustered in groups – the effect being of many tiny candles encased in floating spheres of water.
(images via MoCo Loco)
The Groovetube
If there’s nothing interesting to watch on television, you can turn it into an amazing disco light show. The Groovetube is simply a translucent plastic box that suction cups to the screen of your television. It has a grid of dividers inside it that diffuse the colors from your T.V. producing an amazing colorful abstraction of anything you watch. It’s probably the best thing to happen to television since the remote.
Lumen Tree by Adam Frank
The Lumen Tree by Adam Frank is an oil lamp which projects the shadow of a metal tree on the wall. As the flame flickers, the shadow moves around organically. The tree is made of stainless steel and polyethylene. It’ s a bit like having a virtual Christmas tree in your room. It’s ok for us as long as the X-mas gifts are for real.
The Moon Light By Jess Shaw
Jess Shaw is doing more than luminaries, he’s doing art inspired by the nature. These beautiful moon lamps are made with giant meterological balloons, filled with water and lighted from below. Click here to check out his amazing work.
