The lighting designs we saw this year ran the gamut, from expensive and designey fixtures to better garage lighting to knockaround units that contractors can use to light crawlspaces. Here are our faves for 2021:
Fixtures
A modern design classic: Anu Moser’s pendant lamp for Louis Poulsen
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Ruth Gerth’s Art Deco lamp has an unusual backstory
Image: Cooper-Hewitt. “Glow Table Lamp, 1931. Designed by Ruth Gerth (American, 1897-1952). Chrome-plated metal, molded Bakelite [knob].”
Image: Cooper-Hewitt. “Glow Table Lamp, 1931. Designed by Ruth Gerth (American, 1897-1952). Chrome-plated metal, molded Bakelite [knob].”
Nao Tamura’s Turn Lamps in brass, aluminum or stainless steel
Seunghyeon Yoo’s conceptual lamp with a marble run off switch
Keillor MacLeod’s simple, elegant Show Lamp
Studio Flaer’s suspended yet angle-adjustable Piuma lighting fixture
Camille Blin’s Manually-Dimmable Gradient Lamps
Bambetel’s wooden lamps and more
Daniel Lopez’s Ledtube Mini and its siblings
Yesteryear Prop Store’s replicas of the neon signs from “Blade Runner”
Post Industrial Crafts’ “5D-Printed” lamps made from recycled water jugs
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Product Design student work: The flexible-use Satellight Lamp
Smart design for garage lighting: One socket, five distributed lights, no wiring needed
The Incredibulb: A shatterproof, silicone LED light bulb
Another Reason to Switch to LED Bulbs: They Attract Less Bugs at Night
Image: Federico Bottos on Unsplash
Portable
Patricia Perez’s elegant, portable, wireless LED Mouro Lamp
Milwaukee’s innovative portable lighting box
Nebo’s funky, hinged Omni 2K Work Light
The Everglow Light Tube: A portable, inflatable light fixture for camping
A collapsible bucket/lantern with a removable magnetic LED light
Panther Vision’s “unround” flashlights won’t roll
Crowdfunding smash: the arc-shaped Bowio Book Light for even illumination
Source: core77