Awesome Lamps

Designer Ed Chew created these intricate lighting fixtures using old Tetra Pak cartons, otherwise headed for the recycling bin (or worse yet, the trash). Nothing like a little ingenuity, right folks?

Unleash your inner Wile E. Coyote with this basic, but nonetheless amusing cloth lampshade from Meninos. Hanging light bulb and Road Runner not included. Also, doesn’t actually weigh 10 tons.

We can’t get the shark attack theme from Jaws out of our minds when we look at designer Aleksandr Mukomelov’s shark fin lamp. And just when we thought it was safe to go back in the living room.

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.

Splash photographic images across your walls with this tiny, focused aluminum spotlight, powered by a bright LED lamp. Custom slides cost about $5 each. European plug, though, so you’ll need an adapter.

For those times when you put down the e-Reader and pick up a real book, this softly-glowing glass lamp is the perfect place to rest your book between chapters. Just don’t try to set your Kindle on top.

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.

Crafted from concrete, steel and aluminum, Atelier Takagi’s LED tabletop lamps get their inspiration from the bright lights you’d find lining pre-fab community streets and mall parking lots.

Loris Bottello’s Tron-inspired Ring Lamp uses bioluminescent polymers to emit light, and rotating the disk changes the light intensity. Brush contacts transfer the power to the outer copper ring.

An expensive homage to the iconic storage format. Designed by Transparent House, the Tape Lamp is made of 100 micro-cassette tapes and laser-cut plexiglass. Three 40-watt bulbs provide the light.

A while back we spotted Lasse Klein’s awesome Alien Abduction lamp, but it was only a concept at the time. Now you can get your hands on one for yourself, just in time for the big holiday invasion.