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Usman Haque has been commissioned to create Evoke for the Illuminating York festival. You can see the work from on Fri 26 Oct until Sat 3 Nov, from 6-11pm. From the website…
“Evoke is a massive animated 80,000 lumen projection, which will light up the facade of York Minster. The facade is brought [...]

Looking through the site of Hector Serrano from a previous post, I found this collaboration with Lola Llorca…
“Manolo Is Gonna Have Fun takes fun to the extreme with common objects. Objects that combine normal function and are amusing. Manolo´s products are inspired by toys and the actions of playing games. Manolo is gonna have fun [...]

At our first This happened event, Moritz Waldemeyer presented his amazing kinetic robotic dresses in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan. From an engineering background, his work is not only extremly well built technically, but also has become very elegant, subtle and in a class of its own.
So last week I was keen to go to [...]

More on playful lighting, this time its Superpatata, a squishy light from Hector Serrano for Droog Design. Created from latex, salt and a fluorescent bulb, Serrano explains “I wanted to let the user control the intensity of the light just by touching it. As you squeeze the light, the bulb moves around in the [...]

I saw these lamps in May during the Milan design festival (my photos) but haven’t posted them until now. Both are created by Progetto25zero1…
Pupa is a lamp that you have to caress to turn on and off. There are no switches, instead you have to gently stroke the fur inside. It really had [...]

The Wind-Up Bedside Lamp from Yuko Taguchi :
“This is for people who can’t sleep without the light. Also, people who read in the bed sometimes forget to turn off the light. The key functions as a switch and a timer. Wind-up to turn the light on before you go to bed. The light will stay [...]

Lately I have been collecting lots of examples of household lights that require further interaction & alternative playful input from its users rather than simple on/off. I’m now posting the collection, starting with the Reveal Light by graduating designer Demelza Hill.
“The light requires the user to interact with the form by zipping the spiral [...]

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On Saturday I went to see Daft Punk headlining at the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park London. Why do I blog this? The live show is simply stunning, an audio visual treat.
We were extremely squashed in down the very front, eagerly anticipating the curtain to be drawn back. After about 30 [...]