A glimpse of bamboo lighting at IDC -IITB Design Degree Show 2008 :- 

Designer: Parasar Das @ Degree 44

This lantern is created from a single bamboo to maintain its symmetry and natural dyes has been used.

Designer: Roli Singh @ Degree 44

Absolutely loving these two lighting accessories based on the concept of a tree branch →

branch light

Designer: Michail Komarov via Designeast

Construct your unique branch tree with the three basic elements of this lamp. For more details go here.

oly branch light @ bellacor

This unique close-to-the-ceiling wrought iron fixture is handcrafted. Finished in rust with a Venetian Scavo glass shade.

If you are designing light would you be thinking of Jail?! Or City hall or Crematory!

Or even sleep! No but you sleep when lights are off.

jail

Designer: Leila Atlassi

A master’s student at HDK, Göteborg; Leila Atlassi have thought of these extraordinary context and concepts to design extraordinary lighting products!

See how the context or story shapes these lights:

counting sheep

If sleep is miles away then count sheep in this ‘sleeping game’ light!

Not the same amounts of diodes are lit every time.

An artificial sunrise is also waiting for you in the morning!

city hall

crematory

chanukah candle holder

Designers:  @ Tin City

When medium is mild steel, the process is laser cutting and the colours are vibrant with a subtle African influence then the result show in these intricately detailed beautiful décor pieces by Tin City which was earlier Tin town.

mirror

floral light

Designers: @ Tin Town  (when Tin City was Tin Town)

Floral light : Eight elaborate panels slotting into a circular floral centerpiece.

bird cage mobile

A grown-up version of a mobile! Use it in your kitchen to hang utensils from or in your bedroom for your favourite necklaces.

bird branch hooks

A beautiful branch for inside the house with four strong hooks for coats, hats or whatever takes your fancy.

fire screen

( Yes I am back after a week + of absence from blogging. Hope fully!?! another gruelling busy schedule is now months away!)

catherine wheel ceiling light

Designer: Jona Hoad @ Jona Hoad Design

This award winning ceiling light, combines the reflective qualities of mirror with the latest technology in laser etching.

Jona Head designs bespoke illuminated screens and lights.

Jona Hoad designs illumin-art! – the luxe, colourful and mesmerizing lights and screens!

vanilla bar

aurora line

straw

kings-college-chandelier

aurora carved

curtain of light

is it a sketch or?

Designer: Kenneth Cobonpue @ Hive

a canvas on easel or?

Designer: Anders Jakobsen/ Lagombra @ Lagombra

books on stands or?

Designer: Sarah Louisa Grönvall @ sarahgronvall

Enter into the world of fine line between art and craft!

crokkis

These beautiful vases from Hive are metal wires bent and welded to resemble freehand sketches in space.

What you say – art and light!

Well a lamp by Lagombra but can’t say no canvas!

musllan

Coming straight from the world of books! nah! ya!

Sarah Grönvall takes veneered plywood, foam and fabric to create these Musllan chairs for a lecture hall. Stackable and connectable. The back folds and creats more surface for jackets, coffee cups or writing.

Designer Samira Rathod @ SRDA

Mumbai based architect and designer, the very versatile Samira Rathod set up her office- Samira Rathod Design Associates in year 2000. This trained architect  has earned quite a few awards and accolades for her furniture, product design and interiors.

Her incredible designs of lamps and furniture have the feel of rough edges and smooth-complex lines. The lamps (and even furniture pieces too) have magical reflective dimensions.

What I feel about these pieces: a feeling that I am transported back to the onset of machine age and that there is some modern age royalty standing with all its props and finery. Each piece has certain unsettling quality, each piece feels complete in itself, and each piece has a dimension I haven’t seen before.

 Designer Kiki van Eijk                         bottled lamp

Take glass bottles of medieval times, create patterns inspired by the scenery around the table and kitchen of that period and turn it into lamps. Yes, that is what Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk has done. And the result is these pieces which are stunningly beautiful, historical, and timeless!

Designer Ted tao                                    Hatch

The idea behind this lamp -The ‘almost born’ has started breaking its egg, letting the first ray of life come inside. From outside translucent shell is glowing with signs of life. The lamp is a metaphor of life.

A team of young international designers work @ Hong Kong based Creativoo and design new kind of visual stimulus with tradition defying ideas.

These three lamps are from Creativoo’s designers under the brand name Minglo (pronounced Ming-Glow) from the T-series lamps.

Designer Gaelle Seznec                         Loop

In this architectural lamp you don’t need buttons and sensors. Instead use layers of moving glass to mechanically adjust its brightness.

Designer Gaelle Seznec                         Lune

From the different angles, the shape looks like a full moon or sometimes a crescent moon. Lune is the French word for moon.

             designer – Neil Foley Designs

I don’t know where to start from for this incredibly talented young Indian designer, Bangaluru based Neil Foley. He has won red dot award, he has won Elle décor awards, he has won opu…, he has won..- well, well let me just sum up like this – each of his designs are of award winning quality and he has won about 30 + awards in last nine years.

twig-fruit holder

As the name suggests, the design is a stylized version of a twig or a branch. Taking a fruit from the fruit holder is like plucking a fruit from the trees. (Material used: stainless steel, cast aluminium)

drops – paperweight

(material – acrylic)

ripple – vase

(materials used acrylic and aluminium)

I love to discover how a designer works- his inspiration and functionality study. Here is few more Neil Foley designs with inspiration saga-uncut!

ant – book holder

(polished aluminium)

  caterpillar – floor lamp

(stainless steel and acrylic)

urchin – tooth pick holder

(aluminium)

(There will be another post on his other designs soon.)