Posted by Richard Clarke on 23rd Apr 2013
Exclusive. Ingenious. Different. Japanese designer Yukio Takano’s LED Mushroom lights aren’t your average table lamps.
Upon first glance, it’d be easy to mistake these for the real thing – such is the aesthetics of these lamps. They’re made by incorporating LED lights in small, mushroom-shaped pieces of glass.
These structures are then mounted on reclaimed wood and bark, for a real authentic look.
The only thing… Read more
Posted by Richard Clarke on 19th Apr 2013
If you’re planning on using
LED strip lights in your home, but don't know where to start, here’s a room-by-room list of ideas to get your creative juices flowing.
First up is...
The Living Room
If you’re relaxing in front of the telly after a hard day at work, ambient LED backlighting is a perfect stress reliever.
Lighting has
well-known mood-enhancing properties, and LED strip lights are the ideal type o… Read more
Posted by Richard Clarke on 17th Apr 2013
Beautiful, original and artistic. These are just 3 ways of describing LIKE Architects ‘LEDscape’ – an art installation to promote IKEA’s LEDARE bulb.The Portuguese architecture and design studio used 1,200 LED lights at the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon.It’s designed to be more than just a work of art though – LEDscape is an interactive experience that encourages visitors to wander through the labyrinth of LED lights in order to better acquaint… Read more
Posted by Amit Soni on 17th Apr 2013
Brooklyn based designer Adam Frank took the eco-friendly ethos and ran with it – what he came back with was both charming and stunning.
The ‘Lumen LED’ is actually a lamp that was born out of one of Frank’s previous works – the ‘Lumen Flame’. This involved illuminating a tree-shaped cut-out made of recycled materials using an oil lamp – casting a shadow on the wall it was facing.
In its latest iteration however, the oil lamp… Read more