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Amsterdam Light Festival 2019/2020
UxU Studio Gali May Lucas Koros Design Amsterdam Light Festival The Amsterdam Light Festival is set to return in November 2019 running until January 2020, (literally) putting Amsterdam's beautiful city centre and its canals in the limelight.Amsterdam Light Festival is a highlight of the holiday season and 2019/2020 marks its seventh edition. As in previous years, a whole host of Dutch and international artists will contribute to the festival, creating spectacular light sculptures around Amsterdam's historic Canal Ring, the River Amstel and other special locations. The installations can be viewed from a boat, on foot or by bike. You can...
The 'Pifco Usherette’ upcycled Torch Table Lamp/Desk Lamp
The 'Pifco Usherette’ upcycled Torch Table Lamp/Desk LampMade from a vintage 1950s Pifco torch. Popcorn please.I remember seeing old films where people were shown to their seats in the cinema by an usherette using a torch. This torch could have been one of those.The 'Pifco Usherette’ Upcycled Torch Table Lamp/Desk LampI love the soft gold colour of the torch and the fact that it still has its original pifco label. What fascinates me is that a torch has metamorphosed into a quirky electric table lamp. I have kept its basic integrity as much as possible; you still unscrew the front...
California became first US state to ban incandescent lightbulbs in 2018.
All it's a light lighting now uses LEDs except where there is no current alternative. https://www.itsalight.co.uk/collections/mid-century-modern-lighting-table-lamps/products/original-and-unique-bencini-comet-hyper-flash-table-lamp
The Big Bulb
The giant industrial-style deco LEDcollection has smoky grey glass and a thin single vertical LED filament. read more
Light-up pedestrian crossing
An interactive crossing designed for roads that would respond to people’s changing movements throughout the day has been prototyped in South London. Starling Crossing has been created by urban design consultancy Umbrellium, and works by lining roads with a material embedded with LED light technology. The project was commissioned by car insurance company Direct Line.This is accompanied by two cameras at either end of a crossing area, which are “not for surveillance” and do not store images, says Usman Haque, founding partner at Umbrellium, but instead are “effectively the equivalent of motion sensors”. Crossings appear and disappear As people approach...