Awesome Lamps

Glen Lewis-Steele’s made-to-order LED lamp looks like a cube that changes its shape as you move around it. In fact, it’s not even a cube, and the LED isn’t inside it. But perhaps its greatest illusion is that it doesn’t look like something that should cost as much as a laptop.

Artist Toby Boswell of Pale Rider Handmade has perfected a metalworking process to create these wonderful spherical lamps from recycled bicycle gears. Measures ~15″ dia. and sits on a wood base. Toby also offers the spheres by themselves, and a pendant is in the works.

Anglepoise adds to its collection of 3:1 scale lamps. The updated Original 1227 Giant comes in outdoor and indoor versions, as well as a variant with brass components. The company’s Type 75 will also have an oversized model. Drops 6/2016.

The Tiny Cloud is about 2.5 times smaller than the original Cloud lamp and doesn’t have a motion sensor or a subwoofer. But it has the same Bluetooth speaker and light-up features and costs about 1/6th the price. You can control multiple clouds as one unit.

This high tech pendant lamp has over 300 white and RGB LEDs inside, allowing it to not only change colors, but to focus light exactly where you want it on your walls, floor, or ceiling using its companion smartphone app.

The Mstick is a multipurpose portable LED lamp. Aside from its 16 RGB LEDs it has motion sensors and a mobile app that let you turn it into an alarm, a sound visualizer, a bicycle brake light, a light painting tool and more.

The humanoid Lampster lighting fixture has a repurposed tractor headlight fitted with two LEDs and a body made from 100% recycled HDPE. One of its LEDs is white and dimmable, while the other one is an RGB LED that can be controlled via an app.

Y Studio repurposed the bodies of old and broken film cameras as lamp shades for minimalist desk lamps. Reborn 001 is based on a folding camera, Reborn 003 is based on a flash lamp and Reborn 004 is based on a twin lens reflex camera.

The Luminoodle is a durable 5 foot long strand filled with USB-powered LEDs. It provides up 180 lumens of light and comes with a ripstop pouch that you can combine with the Luminoodle to make a lantern. It has embedded magnets and comes with zip ties.

eBay seller andyshinkage turns discarded skateboard decks into eye-catching wall lamps. He makes light bulb mounts that thread through where the trucks used to be and places a 12W LED bulb in place of the wheels.

Acorn Studio’s Luna is a Moon-themed lantern made of Latex-coated fiberglass. It comes in seven sizes from 3.2″ to 23.6″ in diameter. The smallest one is battery-powered and uses an LED while the rest plug into an outlet and have dimmable halogen lamps.

Studio Cheha’s latest batch of optical illusion lamps play on the lamp and lampshade silhouette with the addition of a birchwood stand and a steel base. The new models use stronger LEDs than the first Bulbing lamps and are now dimmable.

Similar to Bulbing, Hand make’s LED lamps diffuse light through carvings on acrylic sheets. The lamps are actually available in a variety of designs, but the Millennium Falcon and AT-AT Walker are the best of the lot.

Canadian studio Gagan Design handcrafts these modern, minimal lamps from wood. Warm white LEDs provide a long-lasting, energy-efficient light source that would look great on any desk. The floor lamp makes an awesome statement piece.

Designed by Chaiyut Plypetch for Propaganda, these playful plastic pendant lamps look like a giant AC plug dangling from your ceiling, with each skinny bulb representing a prong. We’re going to need a bigger outlet.

A minimalistic LED lamp. It lights up when you turn it face up or to any of its sides and will turn off when placed face down. It has a built-in battery that lasts up to five hours per charge. Available in concrete, wood or metal.