Transparent House creates a tribute to an object of their 80's youth: the compact cassette tape.
Their new design represents sleek table lamps made of translucent and colored tapes.The small lamp is made of answering machine tapes and the larger model is built from compact cassettes in different shades. The lamps use non-heated, neon lights. All cassettes are in their cases.
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The design is a floor lamp for indoor use within a home environment. The main function is to emit light through various filters to control the proportion of light illuminated. The pattern of the filter was inspired by the idea of fractals of repetitious forms to create the light structure. It is environmentally sound as it is manufactured from white paper cardboard of various thicknesses.
This desk lamp, called 8AM by its designers, clamps onto your desk, and it looks like its bulb is magically held up by a wire. There's a regular braided electric wire leading to the clamp on the desk, but then coming out the other side is an electric wire that looks the same but that's reinforced just enough to hold up the light bulb at the other end. Via Gizmodo
A tablelamp with an intergrated slot to hold your book and megazine. thought to live next to your bed ,armchair or sofa.
Designed in 2006, the mushroom floor lamp has been shortlisted in several international design competitions and was selected as one of the top 20 Australian designs of 2006. It was also selected as a finalist by Tom Dixon in the Australian design competition, LAUNCHPAD and was recently on display at the Latitude exhibition at Designex 08 in Sydney.
Clam is made from aluminium sheet with a content that is 75% to 100% recycled. Currently only 31% of scrap aluminium is recycled as much of it is uneconomic to access. Clam is designed so that it can be easily disassembled for future recycling Clam is manufactured using pressing which is a quick clean and energy efficient process.
LOAD-Portable rechargeable lamp.
An opal portable lamp with round soft shapes that can used cordless anywhere, just as your mobile phone!
Load is made of rotation moulded polyeten that feels nice and soft in your hand.
Thanks to the combination of material and shape Load is also almost shook proof.
The rechargeable battery gives 5 hours light. Via: Pan-Dan