Dezeen's top ten: lighting
For this month's top ten we've compiled our most popular stories about lighting from the last year. In pole position are these intricately-cut paper lanterns by London designer Yu Jordy Fu.
2: architect Zaha Hadid takes second place with her light called Genesy for Artemide, launched in Milan in April.
3: third most popular was a lamp made of reflective material, normally used for safety clothing, by Icelandic designer Kristín Birna Bjarnadóttir.
4: a lighting installation in a frozen yogurt shop by London designers Cinimod Studio was fourth most-viewed.
5: Shanghai designer Zhili Liu's series of lighting inspired by birds was our fifth most popular story about lighting this year.
6: our story about lighting exhibited by Dutch designer Pieke Bergmans in Milan was sixth most-clicked.
7: an exhibition of lighting at the V&A museum in London during the London Design Festival, called In Praise of Shadows, comes in seventh.
8: in eighth position is a condom for light bulbs, created by German lighting designer Ingo Maurer in protest against European guidelines banning frosted incandescent bulbs.
9: in ninth place is this desk lamp that can be used as a light box by Hung-Ming Chen of Swedish design studio Hommin and Stockholm designer Ninna Kapadia.
10: a collaboration between fashion brand Diesel and Italian lighting company Foscarini is in tenth place.
That’s it for this month.
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