Posts Tagged ‘light’
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
above is ‘tidelight’, a glass and cork table lamp by paris designer pierre favresse, part of the inaugural collection by the new french design company petite friture.
This table lamp plays with diffraction, with a design that draws its inspiration from the techniques and codes used in the car industry. By its texture and shape, Tidelight increases diffusion.
there are four pieces in the collection, my favourties being the lamp, and the ‘grandissant’ modular candlesticks (below) by jean-charles amey. they are both very simple designs, with a lovely choice of materials.
sorry [again] for the sever lack of posts recently. hopefully this will be rectified soon!
via dezeen
link to petite friture
Tags: candle, candlesticks, cork, glass, jean-charles amey, lamp, light, paris, petite friture, pierre favresse
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
i think maglites are a design classic. i’d put them in a similar category to sigg water bottles (that i did a post on here). they are just very simple, very functional, and therefore very useful. i thought, like sigg, that they were a swiss design, but they are actually american. and the newer ‘mag LED’ designs are the most efficient. apparantly, a new set of batteries will last literally days if you leave it on!
the LED versions do cost a bit more, but the saving on batteries alone surely makes it worth it. i don’t think i’d have much use for the larger model (below), but the above model (the 3w LED torch) is compact but powerful, and costs about £20. not bad!
and the solitaire (below) costs only a fiver!
link to mag
Tags: AA, batteries, camping, led, light, mag, maglite, torch
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
this clock, by kibardin design, is very clever. it uses OLED’s in each digit, with light sensors that ensure the right colours are always showing. there must be a crossover point between black and white, but i cannot imagine what that would look like. it reminds me of a couple of things, mainly the 3D digital clock by alvin aronson (which i did a post on here, which in turn reminded me of a scene from futurama).
apparantly, the designer is ’searching for a manufacturer’.
via boingboing gadgets
link to kibardin design
Tags: clock, digital clock, kibardin design, light, OLED
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
i saw on designboom this table lamp by ilse crawford of studioilse, developed last year for lighting company wästberg. below is the w093w wall lamp developed from the above for this years stockholm design week, which uses a pulley system to adjust the height of the lamp.
link to original article
link to wästberg
Tags: designboom, ilse crawford, lamp, light, pulley, stockholm, studio ilse, w093w, wästberg
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
this caught my eye on designboom today. from the site:
the G28d energy saving cap is a new lighting innovation which allows energy saving light bulbs likecompact fluorescents to fit in sockets that weren’t previously usable. beirut’s pslab created the ‘jar’ light based on a brief to develop a light fixture using this new innovation. they took the common jar that can be bought anywhere and outfitted it with all the necessary hardware. all the parts can be fit inside the jar, allowing to serve as its own packaging. once opened and assembled, the jar remains closed and the light bulb remains inside. because it is watertight, the light can be used outdoors, in water and almost anywhere.
having tried to make a light in a jar before, i know that the main problem is that it gets very hot, even with energy efficient bulbs. usually this can be solved by making a few ventilation holes at the top, but the main point of this light seems to be that it is airtight, and therefore would have no ventilation. either way, i think it looks nice…
link to original article
link to pslab
Tags: designboom, jar, light, pslab
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
another article on designboom that caught my eye was one about scottish-born/stockholm-based designer david taylor and his collective ‘made by:’. the post featured a few lighting designed that i liked the look of, including the ‘glasgow’ table lamp (above) and ‘branch’ lighting (below). the thing i like about the branch lighting is that there are so many different types of bulb which could mean every light is different!
link to original article
link to david taylor
Tags: branch, david taylor, designboom, glasgow, lamp, light, lighting, made by:, scotland, stockholm
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