Rachel Harding's Wonderfluoro lights create rainbow-coloured visual effects
London designer Rachel Harding has created a range of framed fluorescent lamps that cast multicoloured diffracted light (+ slideshow). More
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Designers create winter installation for Montreal featuring 30 glowing seesaws
A team of Canadian designers and artists has created an installation in Montreal consisting of 30 illuminated seesaws. More
Mathieu Lehanneur designs solar-powered Clover street furniture for Paris
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a tree-like street lamp with accompanying twig-shaped seating for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. More
Bocci transforms Berlin courthouse into satellite studio and showroom
Canadian lighting brand Bocci has opened its first satellite headquarters in a previously disused Berlin courthouse, and filled it with room-sized installations. More
Rockwell Group creates canopy of 650 pulsating lanterns inside New York's Winter Garden
New York-based Rockwell Group has suspended hundreds of illuminated cubes inside an atrium in Lower Manhattan, each containing an LED that changes colour based on input from visitors (+ movie). More
Lyngby Porcelain reissues Gijs Bakker's glass Tripod lamp
Danish homeware brand Lyngby Porcelain has put a 1978 blown-glass lamp design by Dutch designer Gijs Bakker back into production. More
Apparatus creates Neo Marble collection influenced by ancient rituals
New York studio Apparatus has unveiled a marble lantern and vessel that embody "the visual language of ceremonial objects" (+ slideshow). More
Goula/Figuera's modular lights resemble geometric ink illustrations
Barcelona design studio Goula/Figuera has created a collection of hanging lights that are based on thousands of drawings. More
Today we like: lights
Today is Diwali, the festival of lights celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists. Marked by displays of brightly-coloured lights and fireworks, the festival celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and good over evil.
To mark the occasion, we're revisiting some of the best lighting design from our archives, including an immersive installation that mimics the movements of fireflies and a spinning disk that created glowing light inside a dark gallery (pictured). See all our lighting design stories »
Michael Anastassiades' Copycat lamp for Flos comprises a pair of balanced spheres
London designer Michael Anastassiades has continued his use of circular shapes and balanced elements in lighting designs to create a new lamp for Italian brand Flos. More
Nacho Carbonell wraps lamps in mesh cocoons for Carpenters Workshop exhibition
Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell has encased lights in loose cocoons of coloured mesh for his Light Mesh solo exhibition at London's Carpenters Workshop Gallery (+ slideshow). More
Pieke Bergmans creates neon lights with irregularly shaped tubes
Dutch Design Week 2015: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans used traditional glass-blowing techniques to form these neon lamps with uneven tubes. (+ slideshow). More
Tuomas Markunpoika's Distant Lights cast Spirograph-style patterns
Amsterdam designer Tuomas Markunpoika's collection of lamps project petal-shaped concentric patterns onto vertical surfaces when illuminated (+ movie). More
Michael Anastassiades launches collection of linear brass lighting
London designer Michael Anastassiades has created a range of lamps using tubular bulbs and brass rods arranged in various configurations. More
Studio Dessuant Bone's Jurassic Light 117 is influenced by the Dorset coastline
London Design Festival 2015: to celebrate British design brand Another Country's five-year anniversary, Studio Dessuant Bone has designed a lamp to reflect the company's origins in the seaside county of Dorset (+ slideshow). More
Studio Itai Bar-On's concrete Grid lamps are patterned with wireframe lines
Israel-based Studio Itai Bar-On has created a set of concrete pendant lamps that are patterned with a grid of lines designed to look like a digital wireframe model (+ slideshow). More
Lights held on angled branches form Nir Meiri's Black Swan lamp
London Design Festival 2015: London designer Nir Meiri took cues from the shapes of birds when creating this floor lamp with two lights supported by metal rods. More
Metalarte launches 10th anniversary edition of Jamie Hayón's Josephine lamp
Lighting brand Metalarte has launched a giant floor-standing version of Spanish designer Jaime Hayón's Josephine lamp to mark its 10th anniversary. More
Barber and Osgerby turns to traditional Japanese craft for Hotaru lighting collection
London Design Festival 2015: design duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby worked with age-old methods of production in Japan to create a range of paper lanterns. More
Plumen adds Drop Hat lamp shade to its growing lighting collection
London Design Festival 2015: Plumen, the lighting brand behind the energy-efficient 001 light bulb, has introduced a hat brim-shaped shade to its range of bulbs and pendants. More