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Beautiful and Pleasure Light from CandleAmp

TheFuture — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:59:25 +0000

The CandleAmp concept has been designed to give a pleasurable light in a room glowing from two clean, replaceable and sustainable soy candles. It features a simple push lighting and extinguishing the flames allowing the users to eliminate the candle associated inconvenience and safety issues with the insulating cover and sturdy wooden base.

The inspiration of the project was to attract more and more people as candle users in a more functional and stylish manner. The outcome is a compact, lightweight and ultra-portable lamp that has the required coverings for safety, visual elegance for style and easy and functional method of working for convenience, in short, a great handy tool for household.

Designer : Simon Enever

Opehn Lamp Design by Flavio García

TheFuture — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:06:45 +0000

The superb design of OPEHN Lamp concept leaves the wires outside, giving the lamp an impression to be naked. The designer has used energy saving LED bulbs to make it even more efficient and the bulbs have been placed in a shameless manner too. However, the bulbs are decorated with petals which give the lamp an organic appearance with the wires to be some growing vines of a tree. The petals have been placed in different angles so that it can lighten in all directions equally. The round base is designed to be well balanced and keep the lamp stand still in even and uneven surfaces.

Designer : Flavio García

Clam OLED Lamp by Johanna Schoemaker

TheFuture — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:58:38 +0000

The Calm Lamp is a futuristic lamp concept that features OLED lights, creating pleasant light like daylight. According to the user’s need, it can be programmed dynamically to offer different lighting conditions. Also, the OLED technology has made the light able to change its color, intensity, directions and wandering shadows to make the indoor artificial lighting into a more natural one. Aside from switching it on through the main light switch, this unique and innovative development can be controlled via a full functional remote control with touch screen surface. The featured OLED technology has made it environment friendly and energy efficient.

Designer : Johanna Schoemaker

“Power of Life” Adjustable Conceptual Lamp by Victor Vetterlein

TheFuture — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:35:02 +0000

Power of Life is a unique and adjustable light fixture concept that is to be mounted on the ceiling and is made of wood, clay and rubber hose. The main inspiration behind the project was to demonstrate the catastrophic events in human life that can be dynamically changed by environment. The concept is envisioned to be hanged from the roof with strong rope and length of the concept can be adjusted from 180cm to 240 cm considering the floor height. The innovative design and pure white color of this fixture will boost your home’s interior and at the same time, will let the user to realize the positive impact of nature.

Designer : Victor Vetterlein

Shade : A Lamp Shade That Act as The Lamp Itself

TheFuture — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:12:55 +0000

SHADE is a lamp shade that has been designed in an innovative way to act as the lamp itself. It brings a new lifestyle to an iconic form with a tuxedo-like formal appearance. The shade incorporates 28 bulbs fitted on its edge along with stainless steel button head cap that screwed with the silver studs and cuff links. This brilliant lamp shade is a low voltage fixture that uses aircraft aluminum body in order to conduct electricity to the highly efficient 12V/10W, high color rendering and long life Xenon Festoon bulbs. SHADE is available in three different meticulously finished colors with catalyzed acrylic enamel: white, torch red and silver metallic. Moreover, it can be dimmed fully and comes with magnetic transformer located remotely or in the included canopy which can be mounted easily to a standard junction box.

Designer : Christopher Moulder

Drop Macro Lamp for Your Living Room

TheFuture — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:13:19 +0000

If you are looking for the latest in photography then macro photos is a must. It is the latest entrant in the photography world. It is the kind that is unique and unusual. The idea for the Macro photos came from the waves and the movement of water. This was further made use of in creating an illumination object. The direction and liquidity got in these photos is amazing. When you look at them you feel as though there are drops of water on the photo. Three dimensional effects add to the realistic impact of the photo. It is multi-faceted. You can use it as a bookcase as well as have a lamp with drops on top.

Designer : Emir Rifat

“Leaf Lamp” is Inspired by Mother Nature

TheFuture — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:16:15 +0000

Now even you have the option to take part in eco-friendly drive by bringing in home the “Leaf Lamp”. It is a floor lamp designed in the shape of a plant with its leaves spreading all around. Inspired by Mother Nature, designer Sofian Tallal of France has created a beautiful lamp that could be used as a table lamp, floor lamp or study lamp. Each of its leaves spread white light with a medium frequency so as to provide a soothing effect to your eyes. Hanging switch interprets the dew drops that are just falling through these green leaves. Altogether you will feel yourself nearer to the lap of nature with this beautiful LeafLamp around you.

Designer : Sofian Tallal via HomeDosh

Moonlight Globe Lights for Your Pool

TheFuture — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:07:00 +0000

Moonlights are manufactured by Germany’s award winning “Moonlight – Globe Lights” for offering luxury seen at the finest resorts all over the world. These are not normal round shaped bulbs but these are a new line of contemporary light fixtures made up of shatterproof polyethylene. These lights are globe shaped and are available in different shapes and sizes from 15 to 30 inches. You can use them for home interiors with assorted changeable colors as well as for outdoor such as a floating model for your pool. Moonlights are surely going to shine your house or resort with a unique and fresh look.

Designer : MoonLight

FrogWare Light Bulb Design Offers Better Energy Efficiency Than CFLs

TheFuture — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:55:07 +0000

This is not an ordinary bulb but it is known as a LED bulb recently created by Frog Design to provide more sustainable lighting choices. They have used LED lights because they believe that LED lights tend to produce a lot of heat and are less influential than incandescent bulbs. They have created Led lights inside a glass fixture that looks like incandescent bulbs. The power LED is set inside the bulb which dissolves its heat to the aluminum base. The main concept behind creating this bulb is to make it easy for the consumers to change their light bulbs.

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Our original goal was to improve the CFL bulb, both in color and usability, but the technology to do so was not obvious. We began to explore colored filters and realized that any filter would reduce the lumen output. We then looked into adding LEDs to change the overall color output. This led us to the realization that florescent lights have huge environmental drawbacks. CFLs use ballast, which contains mercury, electronics and plastic housings. Most consumers just throw fluorescents out with the trash, even though they should be disposed of as toxic waste. CFLs are not dimmable and therefore use their maximum light output each time they’re turned on. In addition, the form and cold color of CFLs keep them from being widely accepted as a replacement to the incandescent bulb.

As our ideas began to focus on combining LEDs with a fluorescent, we sketched several forms that tried to create harmony between the two technologies. The idea of creating a separation between work and home life through the modulation of the color output drove some of our early forms. As soon as we chose to use only high-output LEDs, our forms changed significantly, rendering the old concepts no longer valid.

As designers are inclined to do, we started to create beautiful forms that revolved around the advantages of the new technology and the form factor it lent itself to. This may have been our biggest wrong turn. With LEDs, that form was flat and thin; but this would not solve the problem we had defined for ourselves. To create the biggest impact on society, this design had to keep the barriers to acceptance as low as practical—which in part meant no super-sexy, fluid designs that would only be found in high-end design stores. Any unnecessary styling would cause a rift in its mainstream acceptance.

We realized the easiest way to create acceptance was to deliver the technology in an already widely accepted form. The form of a standard light bulb was then the obvious choice. It would not ask consumers to change their form of power, their light socket or replace the lampshade attached to the bulb. And it underscored the notion that good design is about solving problems for the whole ecosystem of the product.
Designer : FrogDesign

De-Stress Yourself with “Puch The Lighting” LED Light

TheFuture — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:09:54 +0000

When you are stressed with heavy workload, you need something to lighten your stress. So, here comes a new concept “Punch the Lighting” designed by a creative artist. Usually people take out their stress by hitting a punching bag. So, this is what you have to do with this. You do not have to hang this punching bag, just keep it somewhere in your room and start hitting as hard as you can to relieve the stress. Whenever you hit this bag, light will radiate and this concept will refresh your mind according to the designer. Let’s see how far people can do away with their anger and stress.

Designer : Jun Bum Park and Kim Jin Sook