The warm glow of traditional light bulbs could return to homes and replace cold-looking LEDs, thanks to research conducted by a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). More
New York-based HCWD Studio has released a white-concrete version of its cordless brick-shaped lamp, which is activated by movement rather than a switch (+ movie). More
Danish product designer Marie Hesseldahl has created a lamp with a built-in clamp that allows it to be attached to other furniture pieces. More
British designer Ewan Cashman has created a cement and wood floor lamp based on the shapes of spinning top toys he played with as a child. More
London designer Rachel Harding has created a range of framed fluorescent lamps that cast multicoloured diffracted light (+ slideshow). More
A team of Canadian designers and artists has created an installation in Montreal consisting of 30 illuminated seesaws. More
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a tree-like street lamp with accompanying twig-shaped seating for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. More
Canadian lighting brand Bocci has opened its first satellite headquarters in a previously disused Berlin courthouse, and filled it with room-sized installations. More
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
Danish homeware brand Lyngby Porcelain has put a 1978 blown-glass lamp design by Dutch designer Gijs Bakker back into production. More
New York studio Apparatus has unveiled a marble lantern and vessel that embody "the visual language of ceremonial objects" (+ slideshow). More
Barcelona design studio Goula/Figuera has created a collection of hanging lights that are based on thousands of drawings. More
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 »
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
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
Dutch Design Week 2015: design firm Studio Drift has installed flower-like lamps, which randomly rise and fall as they "bloom", inside an empty Eindhoven factory (+ movie). More
Dutch Design Week 2015: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans used traditional glass-blowing techniques to form these neon lamps with uneven tubes. (+ slideshow). More
Amsterdam designer Tuomas Markunpoika's collection of lamps project petal-shaped concentric patterns onto vertical surfaces when illuminated (+ movie). More
London designer Michael Anastassiades has created a range of lamps using tubular bulbs and brass rods arranged in various configurations. More
This 18-metre-high light installation was created by Dutch designer Dennis Parren for the Lowlands music festival in The Netherlands (+ movie). More