Awesome Lighting

The Black Keys’ closing show at the 2012 Osheaga festival was made even more special when it rained light. Hundreds of blinking LEDs floated to the crowd, courtesy of Moment Factory.

It has two independently controlled lights: one on top and another underneath. It comes with interchangeable filters and you can also order custom graphics. Made of stainless steel and glass.

For his Brecce collection, designer Marco Stefanelli combined sawmill scraps and other waste materials with resin and LEDs to make wonderful organic lamps that are eye-catching yet still subdued.

Guilhem de Castelbajac’s Off Duty No More is a limited edition line of used taxi cab lights re-purposed as interior lamps. If you act quickly you can get them on Fab for nearly half the price.

Just like the Battle Mug, the Andromeda is inspired by military equipment and also makes use of Picatinny rails. Its legs and panels are affixed to its body via rail mounts for easy adjustment.

Designer Elie Ahovi’s lightbulb uses clean, modern LED tech for illumination, but pipes it through a fiber-optic tube to provide the illusion of a classic filament. We sure hope these get produced.

Evil Robot Designs has new eye-catching toy-lamp amalgams featuring action figures from famous franchises such as Alien, Transformers, Toy Story, Star Wars, Batman, He-Man and more.

A concept from the Quirky community, Ions is a miniature LED lamp with a magnetic base and a pivoting hinge, making it easy to install and use in tight spaces or even on other tools.

The NeckFX is a replacement neck for bolt-on guitars. It has LEDs embedded into the fretboard that light up whenever any string is pressed into any fret, creating a funky light show on the fly.

NeoCover is a light switch cover embedded with very strong neodymium magnets. Each order comes with nickel-plated key rings. Available in different colors and 1, 2, 3 and 4 switch variants.

Inspired by Thomas Edison’s vintage lightbulbs, The Dapper Llama creates fine handmade wooden table lamps which add a rich and nostalgic ambient glow to any room.

Designed by Karl Zahn, the Dunk lamp will delight and torture basketball fans. The hoop begs you to play ball with it, but the fragile fluorescent bulb – not to mention the price – tells you otherwise.

Pablo Designs’ elegantly minimal modern lamp can turn 360° and tilts 180° to direct energy-efficient LED light wherever you need. Even has a built-in USB charging port. Post sponsored by LEXUS.

Korean designer Song Seung-Yong has created the whimsical Objet-O, a birch chair with an oversized paper lampshade and light, which evokes the privacy and coziness of a bird’s nest.

Designed by CrousCalogero for lighting company Estiluz, the Balloon Lamp is exactly that – a balloon-shaped lamp. It casts a soft white glow and is available as a suspension lamp or a wall lamp.

10:1 scale replicas of Polaroid pictures. Its frame is made of wood and it has a 5,000 lumen LED back light. Choose from stock photos or send your own images to be processed and mounted.