At the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, designer Diana Lin said the concept of d*light Huggable was to "provide companionship to those in need of comfort." Light to the rescue! This pillow is filled with warm white LEDs in bubbles of silicone, which create a diffuse, comforting light which connotes sunlight. The silicone absorbs body heat for extra [...]
Read More comfort, furnishings, light, mood, night light, pillow, seasonal affective disorderI've really been digging getting back into researching fixtures, lighting systems, and interesting designs of lighting lately! It feels good to be able to get back to the initial idea behind JimOnLight.com – sharing cool information about light. WHAT A CONCEPT! Check out this new fixture from designer Vanessa Hordies – it's called Night Night: [...]
Read More interior design, night light, Night Night, Vanessa HordiesEverybody's pal (and BIRTHDAY BOY TODAY, November 3, 2010) Aron Altmark sent me a link to these great lamps by design firm Scott, Rich, and Victoria – they've taken fluorescent tube stock and turned it into a new recreation of the idea of the old carbon filament lamps from the days of Edison and Swan. [...]
Read More Filament Lamp, fluorescent, lamps, Light Art, Scott Rich and VictoriaThis thing is extremely cool – check out Swedish designer Jonas Wannfor's Krystall Chandelier: I love the new-age look of this fixture! I really want to put a lux meter near it and see what kind of output it has. It's essentially a big fiber optic chandelier – the light pump is hidden up inside [...]
Read More acrylic, Fiber-Optic, Fixtures, Jonas Wannfors, Y LightingI have been meaning to put a post up about these interesting fixtures from Anzfer Farms, a design firm from San Francisco. I have to admit that kitschy, "cute" little fixture designs normally annoy the living hell out of me. Fixtures you might see at places like Garden Ridge, little vases with light bulbs inside [...]
Read More Anzfer Farms, Fixtures, found, Jonathan Anzalone, Joseph Ferriso, lampsFirst, 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 [...]
Read More break, hammer, Jordi Canudas, lamp, Light ArtI 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 [...]
Read More Color, home, LED, livingcolors, philips, physiologyThis 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 [...]
Read More Becherlicht, cup, fixture, interior design, Martin Neuhaus, projectorIt 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 [...]
Read More Brigette Borders, Columbia University, Egbert Chu, Fixtures, Forrest Jessee, Chris Barley, products, Push Pull Lamp, Troy TherrienThis 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 [...]
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