Hulger's office is in Shoreditch, east London, and Roope explains that the creative community in the area "creates a nice atmosphere and tends to bring with it great places to eat, drink coffee and beer."

Hulger and designer Sam Wilkinson created the energy saving Plumen 001 light bulb, which won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award last year, and released the smaller Baby Plumen version earlier this year.

"We present [Plumen bulbs] in lots of different ways, but this year we thought we'd step it up and use the light bulbs in a series of chandelier arrangements," says Roope.

Hulger collaborated with visual consultants Haptic Thought to create the Hollywood Chandelier, made from 40 Baby Plumen bulbs suspended in rows from copper fixings on a mirrored plate.

"Regimented, geometric relationships between the bulbs create an interesting effect with the echoed forms running throughout the structure," Roope notes.

The Stepney Green Design Collection consists of 10 products selected by Marcus Fairs of Dezeen from creatives who live near to VIVO, a new housing development in the east London district. The project also includes objects chosen by east London bloggers Pete Stean of Londoneer and Kate Antoniou of Run Riot.

The collection is on show at the Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Road, Whitechapel, London E1 4UJ, from 10am to 10pm every day until January. After this, the objects will be given to VIVO residents.

See all the items in the Stepney Green Design Collection here and watch the movies we’ve featured so far here. The music featured in the movies is by American designer and musician Glen Lib. You can listen to the full track on Dezeen Music Project.

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In this video interview filmed by Dezeen for the Design Museum in London, designer Nicolas Roope talks about his career so far and the places in London that have made an impression on him (see movie below).

The interview was filmed for exhibition Super Contemporary, which was on show at the museum from 3 June to 4 October 2009. The exhibition included a dozen interviews with key London-based designers filmed by Dezeen. More about the exhibition here.

More interviews in this series:

Daniel Weil
Zeev Aram
Wendy Dagworthy
Simon Waterfall
Eva Jiricna
Tom Dixon
Hussein Chalayan
Neville Brody

See all Dezeen’s movies here.

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