All of you lucky Londoners out there need to head over to Trafalgar Square this coming Wednesday at 5PM, as Tom Dixon is supposedly giving away 1,000 of his Blow lights on a first come first serve basis. Sounds pretty awesome! He’s created a chandelier out of the Blow lights in front of the National Gallery. I don’t really love the installation, but maybe it’s nicer in person than it is in photo.

Came across Benjamin Hubert on Design*Sponge and Notcot.com and had to post about his Dandilight. I like this in a pendant version best.

Love the Drop fixture by Heinrich Fiedeler for Anta which looks like a glass-encased light bulb. Elegant and simple!

The Lampe (72dpi, 144dpi, 300dpi) by Guillaume Delvigne for Industreal is a study in pixelation. The lamp comes in three versions, ranging from “high resolution” to “low resolution”.

Via Style Files.

The yoyo was one of my favorite toys as a child. I spent hours trying to make my yoyo do tricks. The Yoyo Floor Lamp does the greatest trick of all by solving all of your hard-to-light issues. It comes with a long, 16m cable, so you can light an area that is far away from an outlet. The Yoyo Floor Lamp was designed by Catarina von Martèrn and Lisa Landström and manufactured by Elmar Flötotto.

Seen over at Aquire.

Here is a way for you to personalize your furniture. You can decorate your pendant lamp with your favorite necklace, or you can hang your necklace on a shelf that reinterprets “intarsia”, an Italian building tradition where a decorative pattern is inlaid into a surface. Malin Lundmark’s website doesn’t seem to be working, so I unfortunately can’t find much information on her. I’d love to know more about Malin’s work, so if anyone has any leads, let me know!

I don’t remember where I first saw this, but Ample Sample was a brilliant contest where industry professionals were asked to upcycle the carpet samples they had sitting in their offices. Some beautiful products resulted. My favorites were the Mag “Daddy” Caddy by David Shor and The Loop Bench (though I would have covered the sides, and just exposed the tops of the carpet samples) by James Seaman. The light fixture above unfortunately doesn’t get credited on the website, but I like it!

I got an email this morning about an interesting exhibit of Tal Gur’s work at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The artist’s statement:

The exhibition space contains several objects which reflect a laborious production process: “Reading” tables, “Alata” light fixtures, “Mesh” chairs, and a “Bamboo” partition. The objects, with their entire range of materiality, sprawl, outline their course in the space, dissolve mass, allowing a glance through― through the object, the place, the space.

If you are in Tel Aviv, you can check out the exhibit from June 14 to September, 2007.

Thanks, Tal!

This is the coolest swing ever. It doubles as an outdoor light and would make you the most popular kid in the neighborhood. The Swing Lamp comes from BCXSY’s Play! collection.

Via MocoLoco.

Innovative light fixtures from Kyouei Design – the Balloon Lamp is exactly what the name indicates – a lamp made from balloons and LEDs. The Honeycomb lamp is made from denguri paper. It seems like this honeycomb paper technique has jumped from bad party decorations to product design – think Molo Design’s Soft line, these paper vases…Can anyone think of other products made in this way?