Good evening, Earth! Tonight's Daily Lamp comes from designer Kouichi Okamoto for Haoshi, who redefines the idea of the low-tech, low impact lamp. Kouicihi says "the balloon and light represent hope and warmness: a beam of light, a stream of warmness, a flying of a balloon, a ray of hope." Meet Balloon X: From the [...]
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Today's Daily Lamp is a pretty awesome (at least to me!) selection of actual human-sized mannequin lamps from Al Hamad Design in Kuwait — and when I say actual human-sized, I mean that the lamp is a standing version of a person with a lampshade where there should be a head. Oh, and to turn [...]
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This one's dedicated to my buddy Greg. This is a fun project, especially if you're A) not married, B) married to someone who appreciates the finer points of Star Wars nerdery, or C) not married — the Boba Fett DIY Lamp Project! As long as you remember to clean the sweat and shame from your [...]
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A late night release of today's Daily Lamp — today's selection is a really ridiculously simple lamp from Paul Loebach called Shanty Lamp — and as Paul says, Shanty Lamp is "a small triangular-shaped wood lamp in yellow pine, reminiscent of a small wooden fort." Nothing fancy about that, right? Shanty Lamp runs about $89 [...]
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Talk about green, if you're looking for a green lamp for your home, why not go with something like Gionata Gatto's Unplugged set, which is a hand-cranked table lamp (The Table Crank) and a pedal-powered floor lamp (The Pedalator). I have to say that I am really digging on Gionata Gatto, I like the way [...]
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Editor's Note: Pardon the two days' pause there folks, I had a few days of complete crap headaches. Ah, the seasons' change causes great pressure in the sinus region, which brings back Ol' Daddy Migraine for a springtime visit! Today's Daily Lamp is an awesome offering from designers Markus Dilger and Thomas Hiemann of Mergeshop [...]
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Today's Daily Lamp offering is a really oddly beautiful lamp called the OOO Desk Lamp from Ukraine – from designer Vasiliy Butenko's website on the OOO Desk Lamp: 1920s of the 20th century were the fundamental years for the modern design history. For me, this period seems to be the most interesting and unique. Events [...]
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A beautiful design from experienced luminaire artist Bernd Utrecht, the Flip LED W is a rotating-in-place LED luminaire that can be installed on walls, ceilings, or really anywhere else that its form factor meets in your vivid imaginations! From the Bernd Utrecht website on Flip LED W (translated from German, sorry): What this lamp so [...]
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Today's Daily Lamp is a very elegant design by Hulger for the Danish lighting company Lightyears — from the Lightyears website: Pharaoh is a unique pendant light created for the beautifully designed and eye-catching Plumen 001 light source. Pharaoh's aim has been to gently frame and enhance the expression of the Plumen light source, preventing [...]
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As strange as it is at first glance, it's actually a quite awesome idea — adapt your architecture to have some form AND function. Meet the Ceiling Light, from Russian designer Дмитрий Куляев, or Dimitry Kulyev, for those of us who don't speak Russian very well (or at all, like me — well, I learned [...]
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