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You Got $870 bucks to Spend On A Lamp, Then Trash It?

First, watch this - you're seeing the Less Lamp, created by Jordi Canudas:The Museum of Modern Art website is selling this lamp for $875 USD - only $787.50 if you're a MoMA member - as a piece of light art.  It's an interesting statement of art, right?  But mostly I just want to meet someone who has a grand to spend on "light art" like the lamp by Jordi Canudas.  I am all about light, art, and light art, but I just don't have that much cash to "invest" on something like that right now!Jordi, don't take offense - I'm ... Read More»

Philips LivingColors, V2.0 – LED Love for the Home

I wrote about the Philips LivingColors fixture in its initial form quite a while ago - and I had the pleasure of meeting the designer of the LivingColors fixture when I was in Sweden, Willem van der Sluis.  Willem is one cool dude.  We got to hear a lot about the original story of the initial ideas surrounding the LivingColor lamp - did you know that when Philips first proposed this idea, they wanted to use three incandescent (halogen) lamps inside this thing?!  That goodness that they decided to repel that decision - otherwise it might have been the Philips ... Read More»

Martin Neuhaus’ Becherlicht – A Cup, Uh, Lamp?

This is an interesting project.  I am still not totally sure if I like it, but you can make your own decisions.So, Martin Neuhaus' lamp, Becherlicht, is a projection-type luminaire.  A source of light shines onto and through a transparent "cup" (I say that in quotes, but I think it's really a cup" that projects onto a wall.  To me, the cup creates what looks like a shade shape onto the wall surface, which seems to be the point made by the designer, who wanted the "aha!" factor with the shade.  It attaches to the wall, as in the image ... Read More»

Forrest Jessee’s Push Pull Lamp

It reminds me of Jenga with light.  Enough said.A New York designer, Forrest Jessee, along with four of his friends (Chris Barley, Troy Therrien, Brigette Borders and Egbert Chu) designed this fun, interesting lamp at Columbia University in 2007.  I believe this is a class project product - on Forrest's website, it is listed under a category of "Enclosures and Environments II," which sounds like the classes I took at KTH.From Forrest's website about the Push Pull Lamp: The design incorporates the common elements of a lamp: the diffuser, bulb, and housing, in a seemingly continuous series of wooden slats. The ... Read More»

Ikea’s NEW Solar Lighting – I Hope It’s Better Than Their OLD Solar Lighting

January 17th, 2010 by Jim
Posted in Home Lighting, Interior Design and Lighting, Solar

This last week, home and Swedish meatball store Ikea launched some new solar products for the new year.  Meet the new Solig line of Ikea lighting - there is a table lamp, a floor lamp, this crazy light tube thing, and some garden-ball-esque lights for your - whatever:You know, a long time ago (the summer before last) I bought one of Ikea's Solig table lamp bubble things with big hopes in mind - it was solar, battery power storage, auto-light-sensing, and it came apart very easily.  However, after about two weeks of use, it epic failed and stopped holding a ... Read More»

Yantouch Jellyfish Lamp

It's been a while since I posted about cool lamps, hasn't it...My wife sent me this lamp actually, from a colleague of hers at RD2 - meet the Yantouch Jellyfish:This lamp seems to be mainly an ambiance lamp - a color changing LED source illuminates the inside, and the rear of the fixture has one "tentacle thing" that keeps the lamp tilted up.  You can either have the top of the lamp on, the underside of the lamp on, or both together from what I have read about the lamp.  The user can choose the color  saturation and intensity, have ... Read More»

JimOnLight.com’s Guide to Christmas Lights, Part 4: Christmas Light Power and Safety

December 14th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Celestial Lighting, DIY, Guides, Home Lighting, JimOnLight.com, Lighting Design, power

Part Four: Christmas Lights Power and SafetySo now that you have learned about the history of christmas lights, learned about different christmas lamp types and different form factors, there's two things that we've not considered: power (electricity) and control of the christmas light display.These two things are usually taken for granted, which is understandable to a point - you plug them into an outlet, and they either turn on or blink, right?  Well, I guess. I, however, am an overachieving geeky nerd that enjoys making a mountain out of a molehill when it comes to the simplest technological tasks.Did I ... Read More»

Daniel Becker’s Outdoor Light Fixture/Sculpture/Light Tinkertoys

November 9th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Fixtures, Home Lighting, LEDs, Light Art, Luminaire Design, artists

Does anyone remember Daniel Becker from about this time last year?  Daniel invented a luminaire called the Tee-Licht, a sphere made from votive candle lights wired with small incandescent lamps.  Quite interesting, actually!Daniel's studio is back at it with a foray into outdoor lighting, but nowhere near the norm.  Daniel's new fixture, "Sparks," is a modular LED system of connecting pieces that join to create a very molecular form - artistic, mechanical, and technical.  From Daniel's website on the Sparks system: Sparks is an outdoor lighting system which consists of several similar modules which can be arranged in various configurations to ... Read More»

Rock Yourself Some Light – The Murakami Rocking Chair

I am 31 - but I love rocking chairs.  That's not to insinuate that only old people rock, don't get me wrong.  When I was a kid, my parents had one of those old, heavy, thick rocking chairs that you could literally rock yourself to sleep in, and the slight reclining shape of the chair makes life that much more sweet.  Rochus Jacob has produced a design for a rocking chair that not only lets you rock comfortably, but also allows you generate energy with your rocking motion that is then released via the integrated lighting fixture above the chair.  ... Read More»

Roll An Extension Cable into A Lamp: Creighton Berman’s Coil Lamp

Creighton Berman's Coil Lamp is a new release from the designer - imagine a small two-piece rig of clear acrylic material that you wrap an extension cable around, creating a luminaire reminiscent of a shade lamp.  Slap a lamp in the middle, and there you go.  Done.  From Creighton's product page on the Coil Lamp: Coil Lamp reduces the domestic lamp to the absolute minimum of defining elements. A single electrical cord coils around what appears to be an empty volume, defining the iconic form of a table lamp and ultimately powering a single light bulb.The entire form is created exclusively ... Read More»

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