German product and jewellery designer Daniel Michel responds to the phasing out of incandescent light bulbs in Europe with this lamp comprising the skeleton of a shade and an invisible bulb.
Called Bye Bye Bulb, the lamp has an LED light source hidden inside what would normally be the bulb socket.
The lamp is made from a mixture of aluminum and steel and uses a 10 watt LED.
All photographs are by Merlin Baum.
Here's some more from the designer:
Bye Bye Bulb
It is creative comment on the prohibition and the disappearance of the light bulb.
I used materials steel and aluminium.
The illuminant is a 10 watt high power led.
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I wish that Dezeen would institute a submittal policy that requires that functional objects be shown functioning: lights should show their luminous effects, chairs should show people sitting on them, shoes should be on human feet, etc…. What does it mean to design a light and submit photos of it not even turned on?
exactly what i was thinking
as it's mimicking a bulb, the quality of light from the LEDs is especially important to the design
bcndc has my vote 100%
I agree in principle, but in practice it is much more expensive and challenging to do a propped photo shoot than a backdropped one. And adding people even more so. Professional lighting and photography are costly.
Agreed with bcndc…
good point dcndc–i think it means the designer was interested to show the shape of the lamp and idea…not the function, nor the quality of illumination, which i find unfortunate.
The second and fourth photos show the light turned on.
…but not illuminating anything
poetic, pathetic, perfect.