Future Projects / glass vase, rubberbands and paint. Lamps made out of Books that you don't Read Anymore. An artist from New York City, Allison Patrick, came up with the idea to use book-paper and turn them into ‘eco-friendly’ lamps. As, e-readers and e-books are gaining fame, conventional books are finding new homes, mostly with artists.
Some carve them to make landscape while others do paper art and now we have lamps! The concept of paper lamps is not new, but you can actually buy these ones from here. There are lamps made with different types of books for different taste of people. For example there’s a funky one made with comic book pages and a cocktail one made with a mixture of different colored pages. A lamp created with music-lesson paper book. And here’s the cocktail lamp. Via: Treehugger. Turn it on! *brightlights-littlecity* The Last Call lamps transform any space with their soft, warm, flattering glow. The cocktail umbrellas used in the Last Call lamps are dipped in phosphorescent paint– they glow in the dark!
Last Call lamps are sprayed with a protective lacquer and finished with a fire retardant spray. The Llast Call lamp is available as a hanging lamp or a table lamp. Each Last Call lamp comes with a 45 watt lightbulb. Each hanging Last Call lamp comes with a high quality hanging cord and a 45 watt lightbulb. Last Call lamps measure: 6" wide, 17" around and 13" tall. Price: $65. *brightlights-littlecity* The original bright lights little city lamp! (based on an award-winning prototype developed at Rhode Island School of Design). The cocktail umbrellas used in the Happy Hour lamps are dipped in phosphorescent paint– they glow in the dark! Happy Hour lamps are sprayed with a protective lacquer and finished with a fire retardant spray.
Each Happy Hour lamp comes with a high quality hanging cord and a 45 watt lightbulb. Happy Hour lamps measure: 13.5" wide, 40.5" around, and 10" tall. Price: $85. Bulbs Unlimited - How it works. Find out how to recycle your retired bulbs into amazing designer lamps Bulbs Unlimted - the principle Snap Buttons (Press Buttons) connecting the light bulbs Bulbs Unlimited light objects contain common light bulbs which are connected by Snap Buttons (Press Buttons) with each other.
For constucting light objects with different shapes and sizes with we invented a jig. This jig, the "Inkubator" is used to define the precise positions for the Snap Buttons on the bulbs. The Inkubator carries numbered holes in it´s surface through which the bulbs could be marked with a pen (eg. water resistent pen - Edding). Without this jig it is not possible to position the Snap Buttons precise enough to gather symetric light objects. . - Shop - more Light Objects - Construction Manuals - Slide Show Components - Contents of the Construction Kits Inkubator, Snap Buttons, Glue, Lamp Holder and Hanging System Drop a Bulb into the Inkubator - the first Step The Inkubator is a positioning jig for standard light bulbs.
RECYCLED TUBE LIGHT by Castor Canadensis. If you happen to have a large number of old fluorescent tubes and don’t know what to do with them, here’s the perfect idea for you! The Toronto based design collective known as Castor Canadensis fashions beautiful ceiling lights out of discarded old fluorescent tubular lightbulbs. Castor Canadensis, a collective of craftmen and artists with eclectic background of craftsmentship and design, has created this stunning ‘Recycled Tube Light’ from refuse tubular lightbulbs. While it may look simple, as it is simply lamp made by wrapping a series of dead tubes around a pair of incandescent bulbs, what we really liked is the idea of repurposing an item which is very commonly disposed improperly, by throwing it into the trash, rather than the proper disposal that these tubes require.
There are two versions, a slightly longer one, for hanging horizontally and a smaller 2 foot version for lying on the table or the floor. (Via The Canadian Design Resource) + Castor Canadensis.