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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Dezeen’s top ten: cardboard projects
Dezeen’s top ten: shops
Dezeen’s top ten: schools
Dezeen’s top ten: pavilions
Dezeen’s top ten: hotels
Dezeen’s top ten: animals
Dezeen’s 2008 review
Dezeen’s top ten: glamorous girls
Dezeen’s top ten: Japanese projects
Dezeen’s top ten: student projects
Dezeen’s top ten: interiors
Dezeen’s top ten: stories with most comments
Dezeen’s top ten: Milan 2008
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Dezeen’s top ten: skyscrapers
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December 3rd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Dude,
Seeing Zaha’s light in Milan, I was VERY disappointed!
First of all, the light output is hardly visible, a minute sliver in an otherwise bulky and overbuilt chassis. It is like pouring reinforced concrete to support a feather!!!!!!
I guess that the form is something she will try and auction at phillips depury or Sothebys!
The point of light is just that- to illuminate. The lamp is an afterthought in this case!!
Disgusting!
Brian
Industrial Designer
December 11th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Thank you for your blog. (excuse my english !)
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:44 am
Totally agree with Brian, Hadid's is a very sorry excuse for a lamp, obviously trying to ride the wave of design art, and failing miserably.
She'd do well to stick to buildings.