The latest movie from a series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad features Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talking about some of the iconic lights in their collection. Download the app free from the app store here. More
London Design Festival: London designer Tom Dixon will launch a range of iridescent stoneware pendant lights at next month's London Design Festival. More
Industrial design graduate Ido Mohar has made a series of lamps that stand to attention when switched on and take a graceful bow when switched off. More
Crystal light bulbs made of cut glass by London designer Lee Broom are now available as part of London design month at Dezeen Super Store. More
The Changing Room is a space at Dezeen Super Store that will be regularly given over to different designers to showcase their products or artwork, and we are currently featuring Dalston designer Naomi Paul's latest crochet pendant lamps. More
Ukrainian designer Vasiliy Butenko has made a series of pendant lamps by wrapping cotton rope around plastic bottles. More
Dezeen Wire: Spanish lighting brand Santa & Cole has launched a lawsuit accusing the state of Qatar of copying street lighting devised for Barcelona by Catalan designer Beth Galí in 1996. More
This lamp by Barcelona studio Crous & Calogero for Spanish brand Estiluz is shaped like a helium balloon floating against the ceiling or wall. More
This table lamp by Royal College of Art graduate Amanda Buckley has a ring of LEDs tucked under the rim of the shade to reflect a diffused glow from the empty shade. More
Hans Toft Hornemann and Terkel Skou Steffensen of Danish design studio MadeByWho have designed these desk lamps combining a simple maple base with painted ceramic shades. More
This bowl of candy-coloured glass fruits is a lamp by Japanese designer Hisakazu Shimizu of S&O Design. More
Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has made these small solar-powered lamps for people who have limited access to reliable energy – almost a quarter of the world's population (+ movie). More
This lamp by German designer Hayo Gebauer falls over when it's turned off (+ movie). More
Northumbria University graduate Raymond Paulson presented two lamps which can be dimmed by rotating their shades at London graduate show New Designers last week. More
Dezeen Wire: design critic Alice Rawsthorn describes how the famous Arco lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni has become a cliché for precisely the reasons that made it great - New York Times
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These ceiling lights by Seattle design studio Graypants are made from salvaged remnants of corrugated cardboard. More
This wall-mounted task lamp by German studio 45 Kilo is adjusted simply by sliding a leather loop along the arm that supports its shade. More
London designer Anthony Dickens has created a snaking, modular lighting system made of bamboo and paper (+ movie). More
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has created a range of LED lamps for Italian lighting company Artemide that unfold from flat 2D shapes into 3D shades. More
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