I used to be really into product design, but lately I find most of it quite boring. From time to time something nice pops up when I’m surfing around like this “Fruits Table Lamp” by S&O Design.

found at dezeen

It’s again that time of the year when all the product designers show their latest and greatest work at the Milan furniture fair. A few hours ago I was still thinking how bored I am with product design lately …
But Front came to the rescue with this fantastic project: “Surface Tension Lamp”.

A bubble is brief, and bursts at your touch. But while it lasts, it catches the light and reflects the room like a multi-coloured temporary structure. We wanted to create a constantly changing lamp that combines the most ephemeral of lampshades with an LED light source that will last for 50000 hours. In the time it takes the LED to burn out, the lamp will have had 3 million different globe shades.

Just watch the video!

Here’s the same lamp, but they added smoke to the soap bubble …

“Light & Jelly” is series of lamps cast in jelly by Le Creative Sweatshop and then photographed by Fabrice Fouillet. The results are very colorful and look stunning.

found at It’s Nice That

The “Collection of Light” by humans since 1982 is probably the best lamp I’ve seen in a while. It is simply a collection of LEDs which together constitute a lamp in itself. They wanted to create an aura of a real collection (similar to a collection of insects) and expose each illuminant as a worthy industrial product. The LEDs are all labeled (with name, size and colour temperature) and arranged in a specific order to accomplish harmonic light.
I want one!

found at designboom weblog

This Artificial Moon by Wang Yuyang is quite big, it measures 400 cm in diameter (13 ft) and is made of hundreds of compact fluorescent lightbulbs.

found at Colossal

Last September, Dominic Wilcox did the Speed Creating project, he tried to make something creative every single day. The results are amazing. Here’re 4 of them:

Day 2: Pop Up Train Tray Surprise

Day11: Beach Ball Chair

Day 24: I remember you well – a tin foil bust of Dominic Wilcox at the age of 21.

Day 28: Inflated socks

found at designboom weblog

Wave by Valentin Ruhry.

found at vvork

The Daylight Entrance by Daniel Rybakken is all about the illusion of daylight. It’s an light installation in the entrance and staircase of an office building. Both don’t have any natural light, but these panels give you the positive sensation of sunlight. The back of the panels were hollowed by CNC-milling and then backlit with a lot of LED’s.
You might also want to have a look at his “Subconscious Effect of Daylight” sidetable.

found at yatzer

Stumped is a limited edition of lamps made of logs, designed by egg collective.

found at pan-dan

“Cable Drawings”, a simple and funny idea by Maisie Maud Broadhead.

found at trendbeheer