Similar to the concept of blowing on an LED candle to extinguish and “ignite” it, the Switch Candle by Seungyoub Oh.  Switch Candle is an LED luminaire that interprets air moving by its sensor and translate the moving air into a pseudo-flickr, as if the air were moving the flame of the candle around.

Thanks, Yanko!

Almost a month ago I wrote about Chris Kabel’s ‘Sticky Lamps’ and I promised more work by Chris.  I have gotten a few screen captures of Chris’ work on his portfolio site.  In addition to using glass, natural ideas, and novelty, Chris also utilizes gas combustion in some of his fixtures!

Check out Chris’ “Bubbilicious Lamp.”  These are unique formed pieces, each completely separate from others in the line - handblown glass, powder coated metal - nice works.

Chris’s fuel fed fixtures are also beautiful - simple, industrial, and with the exception of burning down your house, an interesting concept!  The blue piece - the chandelier’esque fixture - is called the “Big Blue Flames Chandelier,” and the white one is called “Flame.”  Nice, simple.

I am a huge fan of art that is functional as illumination - which is why I assume I like Igor Pinikin’s “Anemone” so much.  It’s glass, it sits uniformly at any angle on any surface, and has glass balls inside to keep it stabilized.  I have no idea as to the source - I am guessing LED - and I know that it’s not available…  yet.

Thanks, Yanko!

From a post at Make Mag, I discovered the absolute English translation hilarity that is Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi’s product and portfolio website.  Even though the broken English is enough to keep you yucking for 20 minutes or so, his lamps are fantastic.  He’s taken headlamps and handlebars and turned them into beautiful pieces that would look great on any desk.

In addition to cycle, Vespa, and other two-wheeled forms of locomotion, he dabbles into airplane lamps, Greek mythology-based lamps, and others.  Check out his site:  Lamponi’s Lamps.

Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim have given us the Solar Vertical Lamp - an ingenius invention that melds the ideas of ambient mood lighting and green resources, like the sun’s power.  The solar vertical lamp utilizes solar collecting panels on the back of vertical blinds to collect energy all day, and once the time comes that you need to use that perfect, soft ambient light for whatever reason (hint, hint), on it comes.

The Solar vertical Lamp comes in a floor lamp style, a table lamp style, and a chandelier type lamp.  Check them out.

I wrote a post earlier this week about The Andrew Lamp by Dima Loginoff.  After a bit more searching on DIma’s site, I found a few more examples of Dima’s style.  He seems to like the exoskeleton shape of a lamp, very representative, and casting interesting shadows, a la Linnebach Projector-style.

The next couple of shots are Dima’s “Miami Lamp.”

“Curl My Light” is below - another representative shadow projection fixture.

I posted a little while ago about a guy named Charles Kalpakian, Hello Karl, and the Rain Light.  I emailed Hello Karl to try and get some information on the other designs on the site, but alas, I have gotten no response.

Be advised, Hello Karl, I wanted to interview you about your product line.  You know, FREE PRESS and all.

So anyway, I took some screenshots of some of the light-related products on Hello Karl’s website - the whole site is flash, and it is beautiful but pretty unfunctional.  Hence, screenshots.  Check them out, interesting fixtures!

This first set is named “City Lights.”  It looks like a columnar emitter of some sort.  It definitely makes a nice line:

Next, “Graffititek.”  Book storage, built-in illumination.

The last Hello Karl design - my favorite - is referred to as “Graffilight.”  These fixtures look expandable, and they look made to incorporate as lighting art in a room.  The are also apparently color-changing.

Obviously, the one below is for when you need to kick it Roxanne style:

I found these lamps on Coroflot - Rafael Morgan is the designer.  A statement about the fixture from the designer:

The Light Drop is supposed to make people think about how we are dealing with our natural resources , in this particular case, the water, which is the main source of energy for every living organism in this fantastic world. Water is energy indeed.  I really hope that people really get my message….

They get it, Rafael, they get it.  Deep.

Dima Loginoff, a Russian designer has come out with the “Andrew” lamp.  All black and white, the layering is amazing.  I’m not sure the reflectance of the material used in the ring sheets, but I can imagine this lamp must look beautiful.

Also, apparently Dima Loginoff also worked as a hair stylist.  Who knew?  Multitalented.

Thanks, DesignBoom!

A designer named Charles Kalpakian has produced a lighting fixture called “Rain Light,” which is fluorescent in nature, and reminiscient of falling water.  Hello Karl, the parent company or design firm, I haven’t figured out which yet, as I am having a hard time getting this company to want my free publicity, has a bunch of fixtures that I would love to chronicle.

Check out some images, and thanks to Yanko Design for the original article!