Last week I chronicled a few works by Dave Keune - another project from his collection is The Plint Lamp.  From Dave’s website:

Plint is a minimal, yet elegant luminaire with an expandable bamboo shade. By use of the flexible quality of bamboo the interconnected parts can be opened and closed by hand. In this way the shade functions as a mechanical dimmer, offering the owner a possibility to change shape as well as light-production of the luminaire. The repetition of parts creates a spectacular view on the warm glowing inside and gives an exciting display of shadows in the environment.

The Plint is an interesting use of a douser concept - well, it’s not really a use, per se, it’s really an interesting douser concept.  As you increase the diameter of the shade, you’re not only increasing intensity but you’re increasing the mass and shape.  In this case, does form aid function, or does form follw function in this case?

In the same vein as the Josephine PMMA lamp, Keune and Mulder have another beautiful piece in their respective repertories - the Therese chandelier.  Keune and Mulder do great things with PMMA - there’s another product being reviewed as well in a few days made of their PMMA-cut configuration - a table lamp, the Marie-Louise.  Both Dave Keune and Sander Mulder have this product on their sites.

What I understand about these PMMA fixtures is that there is also a color filter insert for the inner dimmable fluorescent source, which could be quite fun.  A suggestion I might make for them is to produce a set of color correcting filters for random occasions, or for people suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder.  No matter the occasion, these are beautiful pieces.

Another Dave Keune and Sander Mulder collaboration before Buro Vormkrijgers went defunct, the Josephine lamp is another interesting and innovative product from these designers.  Sander Mulder has this on his personal post-Buro Vormkrijgers website, so I am making the assumption that it’s his brainchild.

Josephine is made from PMMA sheets, cut and mounted around a special dimmable fluorescent source.  I want to know where they stashed the ballast for this “special” dimmable fluorescent!  However, clear edge-lit forms are some of my favorite ways to light.

Thanks to Yanko Design for the images!

It looks like Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee weren’t as innovative as I thought - at least first anyway.  Sander Mulder, one of the two designers collaborating on the now defunct Buro Vormkrijgers (the other being Dave Keune, who I will write about later in the week) designed a very similar device - the Eureka Lamp.

From Sander Mulder’s Eureka product page:

Made from a laser cut sheet of aluminum, in combination with a high power led, this clever designed lamp operates on 2 button cells.

This sophisticated promotional gift, introduces the public to the possibilities of the new generation of power led’s; they are small, power efficient and virtually indestructible.

As a design object in traditional postcard format, it can be shipped by regular mail to your family, friends and relations. Made from off-the-shelves parts, combined with a sheet of aluminum in a clever way, it transforms with one single twist into an ambient lighting fixture.

Camping, in a closet, behind Dimmer Beach, or anywhere else you can think to need extra illumination - a great idea by an interesting designer.  I’ll be chronicling more of Sander Mulder and Dave Keune’s design work in the up-and-comings.