Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: twenty-six cable ties make up this pendant lamp that London studio Vitamin is exhibiting at Clerkenwell Design Week.

The black and orange industrial ties are locked into place by a turned wood and spun metal component at the top and a steel cog at the bottom. The different diameters of these elements cause the ties to curve outward towards the base.

The lamp is currently on show at Clerkenwell Design Week, which concludes tomorrow, and will be available to purchase in two sizes later this year.

Dezeen Watch Store has a pop-up shop in the Farmiloe Building at the event, where we are presenting a selection of our latest and best-selling watches - more details here.

Other lamp designs on Dezeen include aluminium shades with softly angled edges and a table lamp made of seaweed.

Vitamin has also designed mix-and-match vessels built up from assorted materials and ceramic urban gnomes that we've featured.

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The round Mingus shades by Cecilie Manz for Lightyears have profiles with four facets, giving them an angular appearance.

Each is composed of a matt-lacquered aluminium shade and a white or grey textile cord.

An acrylic fixture sits snuggly within the top of the lampshade, allowing a soft light to seep gently upwards onto the cord.

The lamps are available in two sizes and six colours including white, nearly black, very grey, pale moss, light celadon and dusty limestone.

Mingus can also be bought at Folklore, a north London shop that we've previously featured on Dezeen. Read the story here.

The lamps are named after American jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus.

Other pendant lamps we've recently featured on Dezeen include two monochrome lamps by Zaha Hadid, and a collection of small and colourful lamps made from recycled aluminium.

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Studio Markunpoika founder Tuomas Markunpoika formed a web of rings around the original wood piece then set it alight to leave a fuzzy memory of the original object. "The hardest part was to find a suitable light source, and to fix wiring so it contoured the inside shape and didn't interfere with the see-through aesthetics," Markunpoika told Dezeen.

Commissioned by Gallery Fumi in London, the chandelier joins the Engineering Temporality collection of furniture that Markunpoika created as a student at Design Academy Eindhoven, inspired by the disintegrating memories of a grandmother struggling with Alzheimer's disease.

The twelve-piece collection, which includes a cabinet (above) and chair (below), was nominated in the furniture category for Designs of the Year 2013. "When working on the other pieces of the collection I couldn't help noticing how exquisitely the multilayered exoskeleton was interacting with light and movement," said Markunpoika. "The chandelier seemed like a good next step."

See more chandelier design on Dezeen, including one made from items that include plastic bottles and party-poppers and one made from 1243 spent incandescent light bulbs.

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Nir Meiri made the lamps by draping fresh seaweed over a structure of thin metal spokes attached to a metal base. The final shape of each lampshade is formed as the seaweed dries and shrinks, before being set with a preservative.

Marine Light was presented at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last month. Other lamps on show included a light with coloured LEDs in red, green and blue to cast shadows in cyan, magenta and yellow and a folding lamp powered by little wind-up keys. See all our stories about Milan 2013 »

This isn't the first time a lamp has been crafted from seaweed. London-based designer Julia Lohmann previously used dried strips of seaweed to make laser-cut kelp lampshades.

Other lamps we've featured by Nir Meiri include a set of table lamps with metal shades hanging from thin stalks and a collection of tactile moulded lights made from desert sand.

Photography is by Shay Ben Efrayim and Aviram Ohad.

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Here's some more information from the designer:

Marine Light

This project is inspired by the sea.

Through the unconventional use of seaweed as a main material for a domestic environment, the product plays on the tension between the artistic and the commercial.

Ancient cultures have appreciated and utilized seaweeds for different uses. Today, seaweeds are cultivated and harvested on a commercial scale, as a result of a growing interest driven by environmental concerns.

The Marine Light lamp combines a metal base and a structure of thin metal strings for the lamp-shade. The seaweeds are applied on the metal strings while still fresh. As they dry, they shrink and obtain the form of the lamp-shade. A mixture of preserving material is applied to preserve them.

The light reflected through the seaweeds and the morphology of the lamp induce underwater images Furthermore, the use of seaweeds, borrowed from other disciplines into the world of design, might inspire new thinking in the field.

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Called Hyperion Spotlight, the piece is assembled from many components of CNC-cut oak. Joints allow it to be posed in various positions ranging from a low crouch to stretching up on tip-toes, as seen in the stop-motion animation by Niels Hoebers.

"Hyperion is finding a way of putting the world around us together in a unconventional but stimulating way," says Paul Heijnen. "Instead of concealing and hiding a product’s constructional and mechanical functions, this three-legged spotlight celebrates them."

The piece is the first in a series of installations at different scales and Heijnen hopes to create a six-metre-high one in steel to sit atop Piet Hein Eek's Eindhoven headquarters, in a former ceramic factory, for Dutch Design Week in October.

"This is merely in the planning stage but I would like to put a super-strong laser inside it that beams over the city," says the designer. The project is named Hyperion after the Titan god of light, whose name means "watcher from above".

Curator Rossana Orlandi presented the piece as part of her exhibition at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan, a 19th century family house converted into a museum to preserve its interiors and display the family's decorative arts collection. Other pieces on show included a solid marble chair by Tomáš Gabzdil Libertíny.

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Movie credits

Concept and set design by Paul Heijnen and Niels Hoebers
Hyperion by Paul Heijnen
Stop-motion animation by Niels Hoebers
Music and sound design by Fab Martini

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