Awesome Lighting

This may not be the first time it has been done, but it’s nonetheless inspiring to see something as simple as a plastic soda bottle be repurposed into something much, much bigger. (Thanks, Juanjo!)

MonkeyLectric’s Mini Monkey Light M210 is a durable LED bike light that keeps you visible for evening rides; it straps to your spokes and displays full color 8-bit graphics on your spinning wheel.

These lamps from Tabisso will not only make sure that your taste in lighting makes a statement, but that their furniture is properly punctuated. The lamps come in over 20 different forms from @ to ?

The Panasonic BF-AL01K LED Lantern is waterproof and can illuminate a whole room. Lasts up to 70 hours of continuous use on three AA batteries. Panasonic Evolta batteries included.

Designed by Jonathan Ota and Ethan Frier, Aura is a supplementary safety system for cyclists. The LEDs are powered by the front wheel, and change from red to white as the bike accelerates.

All you need to do to illuminate this Cereal Bowl Lamp from ideaka is to touch the metal spoon. It’s still a concept, but it might be fun to immortalize a favorite childhood (or adult) breakfast memory.

Artist Christopher Poehlmann’s outdoor path lighting fixtures mimic organic tree structures and are handmade from brushed aluminum with LED illumination. Available in heights from 2 to 8 feet.

We are loving the shapes and light that’s bundled within these pristinely cut paper lampshades, handcrafted from repurposed comic books, novels and fairy tales from Rotterdam’s Ginkgo Studio.

Jason Miller’s modular lighting is made of segments filled with LED arrays. They can be mixed and matched to form different structures. Seems like only the straight segments are available for now.

Designed as a replica of a 1940s Fresnel studio lamp, Restoration Hardware’s version has a shiny aluminum body, stainless steel base, and takes normal lightbulbs so you don’t blind your guests.

Tom BetGeorge put together this incredible Halloween light show on the front of his house and perfectly synchronized the lights to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. His neighbors must either love or hate him.

Sure, it’s not even Halloween yet, but it’s never too early to start decorating for Christmas, right? Actually, it is. Keep these R2-D2 light strings in your closet until after Turkey Day.

We prefer to call it the Aviator Lamp, because that’s what this is – a light bulb surrounded by 40 pairs of mirrored aviators, which cast a kaleidoscope of shadows when the lamp is lit.

These sleek OO!2 Circular lights from Teun Fleskens emit ambient light from the edges of the circles and can be used as hanging or tabletop lamps. Offered in acrylic or wood veneer finish.

West Elm challenged 2 teams of ID students at the Pratt Institute to create eco-friendly office furniture using FSC certified materials; the resulting Pratt home office collection oozes responsible chic.

Yves Béhar’s striking LED Leaf light for Herman Miller allows the user to control the intensity and light color (warm or cool) by sliding a finger along a groove in the lamp base. (Thanks Ron!)

Valentina Trimani’s brilliantly simple concept design combines the utility of a bookmark with low-voltage OLED illumination, so you can read your books while lying in the darkness of your bedroom.

Australian designer Kenan Wang based the hand-powered Eco-Twinkle light on old school manual pencil sharpeners. The light can be suspended from a string and has a foldable handle.

Made by UK-based artist Finn Magee, Flat Light has an embedded LED that makes it light up. Originally part of Magee’s Flat Life series, Flat Light is now on a limited edition run at the Moss Gallery.

This unusual lighting from QisDesign lets you magnetically snap together individual color-changing LED “crystal” pods to create unique fixtures to suit your liking.

In this projection-mapped installation by Alcatel-Lucent at the last Mobile World Congress, the public was invited into a cube filled with color and light to witness “transforming the mobile experience.”

Vincent Moreau and Kevin Riou have created Firefly, interactive lighting with behavior similar to an insect cloud. The light alternately disperses, merges and evolves through visitor movements.

Students at Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland converted the dorm windows of their building facade into their 4th entertaining light show complete with music and animation.