The latest lighting products from Zero include the Silo hanging lamp (above) by Stockholm's Note Design Studio, which was inspired by the tapered shape of a grain silo and comes in white, black, yellow and green.

Also included is Daikanyama (above) by Stockholm designer Thomas Bernstrand, an aluminium pendant lamp that is strung up along wires that zig-zag across the ceiling.

Hatt (above) by Swedish designer Thomas Sandell is a pendant lamp with a wide shade made from white stretch fabric.

Thirty (above) by London-based designer Samuel Wilkinson is a rotating LED fixture for ceilings and walls that turns 170 degrees and comes in black, white and yellow.

A shell of sheet metal encloses a thin LED strip to create the Clark light (above) by German studio Böttcher+Henssler, which shines onto the wall to be softly diffused into the room.

Finally, Cap (above) by Joel Karlsson of Swedish architects Krook & Tjäder Design is a simple circular fixture with a black steel rim and an opaque acrylic shade.

The new collection will be shown by Zero at Stockholm Design Week, which runs from 4 to 10 February.

We've featured lots of other lighting from Zero, including hanging lamps inspired by a circus trapeze and a lamp suspended in a knitted fishing net.

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The sun is shining on Zero – its golden yellow catches the eye on many of our new additions for 2013. This includes a distinct sharpness in form and design, as well as fixtures that both stand out or blend in, depending on the chosen colour. Some are architectural in expression; others are highly graphical. Everything from stylised minimalism to voluminous fabric hats with noise-reducing effects. Inspired from lands far away, including Sweden's wilderness, we warmly welcome them all to our range.

Hatt – Thomas Sandell

The Hat fixture originated from a desire to use light to create spatiality in a hotel foyer. HATT provides lounge suites with a roof-like structure, thus creating a more intimate atmosphere. Additionally, it is acoustically favourable due to the white stretch fabric that also gives the pendant its characteristic shape. HATT works extremely well in low-ceiling rooms, being just over 30 centimetres high. Details are painted white or yellow. D 800 mm.

Daikanyama – Thomas Bernstrand

The Tokyo district of the same name inspired Daikanyama; the pendant and cables create spatiality on a pleasant scale for both large and small areas. In zigzag, stricter or even slightly chaotic configurations between walls, ceilings and poles, with the electric cable running along the wire from one to the next. There are endless possibilities for this playful pendant with painted aluminium in standard colours: white, black, red, yellow and orange. D420 mm H 300 mm.

Silo – Note Design Studio

A small, iconic fixture inspired by the classical silhouette of a grain silo. This shape was refined during the design phase to finally become Silo – a minimalistic pendant with a distinct indu- strial character. Silo, with its colour range of white, black, yellow and green, can both step forward in a room and become a dynamic element or step back and blend into its surroun- dings. D 150 mm H 235 mm.

Thirty – Samuel Wilkinson

How can an LED fixture look great from all angles in corridors, public areas and stairwells? Answer: Thirty – a rotating LED light for ceilings and walls, which can be turned 170 degrees to meet the user’s wishes. The angled diffuser of microprisma provides softly filtered light that together with the rounded asymmetrical shape form a harmonic whole. In black, white and yellow, Thirty works very well in both formal and more playful configurations. D 245 mm H 170 mm.

Clark – Böttcher+Henssler

The Berlin-based duo experimented with creating an elongated shell of two bent sheet metal layers for a thin LED strip – and so Clark was born. Light is reflected by a smooth, white surface and shines on the wall to fade softly toward the ceiling and floor. Its pleasant light dispersion and elegance, without blinding its environment, makes it suitable for both public and private spaces. Clark is available in standard colours: black, white and yellow. B 350 mm H 160 mm D 100 mm.

Cap – Joel Karlsson, Krook & Tjäder Design

With its graphically clear shape, opaque acrylic shade and black-painted steel, Cap could be regarded as an easy-to-use tool. Keywords during the design phase: function, production and maintenance. The result is a practicable element for large and small civic-building projects, for outdoor and indoor use, on walls and ceilings, frontages, underpasses and stairwells. D 350 mm H 80 mm.

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Note Design Studio of Stockholm were inspired by a circus trapeze to create these pendent lamps with aluminium shades that appear to be draped over a wooden pole.

Designed for Swedish brand Zero, the Trapets in fact have a wooden knob attached to either end of their shades.

They house low-energy tube lights and come in two lengths.

See more work by Note Design Studio here and more products from Zero here.

Photos are by Mathias Nero.

Here's a little bit of text from the designers:

Toulouse 1859 — a young daredevil swings through the air on a wooden bar fastened to two ropes above his father’s swimming pool. That year, the curious hobby was first shown at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, and the success was clear: the art of the trapeze was born.

Some 160 years later, Note Design Studios’ Trapets was born, with a shape born from the classic circus device. Here, the fitting’s shade rests lithely over the trapeze, spreading a pleasant light over the work station.

Trapets is equipped with T5 Eco and is available in two lengths 1400 mm and 1700 mm.

Title: Trapets
Client: ZERO
Dimensions: 1700, 1400 mm
Material: Aluminium, microprism, wooden knobs.

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Milan 2011: Swedish designers TAF have created this polypropylene light in a hand knitted net for Swedish design brand Zero.

The lights, called Fisherman, are based on old fashioned glass fishing floats.

The nets are individually hand knitted in Hönö on the west coast of Sweden.

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Photographs are by Jonas Lindström.

The following is from the designers.

Fisherman

“Glass fishing floats were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their nets afloat. (…) Many of them are still afloat in the world's oceans, primarily the Pacific. Norway was the first country to start production and use of glass fishing floats around 1840, and they can still be found in local boathouses. Christopher Faye, a Norwegian merchant from Bergen, is credited for their invention. By the 1940s, glass had replaced wood or cork. Later the floats have been replaced by aluminum, plastic, or Styrofoam.” (Wikipedia)

Like fishermen's glass floats, the lamp has also transferred to contemporary materials. And as a useful fishing tool has transformed into a romanticized, nigh-kitsch item used in fish restaurants, it is also time to move lamps into a new positive context. When placed indoors, with increased size and a new function as a lamp, we still recognize it, but look at it in a new way.

Rope-making is now a very rare handicraft in Sweden and it has been extremely hard to find the knowledge on how to knit this kind of round net structure. Finally, a small company, located at Hönö on the Swedish west coast, specialized in making rope- and net applications for the fishing industry, managed to do it. Each net is hand knitted using the simplest tools imaginable.

Object: Pendant- and wall lamp
Client: ZERO
Dimensions: Diameter 400 mm and 650 mm
Material: Polypropylene and Polyethylene
Light Source: 18W/Gx24q, Incandescent bulb
Design: Mattias Ståhlbom
Photo: Jonas Lindström
Date: 2011

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Rubber by TAF	Stitch lamp by TAF	Bottle by TAF

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Stockholm 2011: London designer Benjamin Hubert presented these woven polyester lamps for Swedish brand Zero at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this month.

Called Loom, the shades are made from a material woven in three dimensions that's normally used for bedding.

Stockholm Furniture Fair took place 8-12 February. See all our coverage of the event »

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The information that follows is from Hubert:

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Loom

Loom is a collection of organic textile pendant lamps utilising a new 3D woven polyester material designed by Benjamin Hubert for Swedish manufacturer Zero.

Originally used as a source of comfort in the bedding industry the 3D textile has never before been used in the lighting industry.

The textile can be stretched around complex forms and diffuses the light through its dense network of warp woven polyester fibers.

The Textile is offset and contrasted with a brightly lit polymer lens at the heart of each pendant.

The forms of the textile lamps reference traditional Chinese lanterns as a known reference point transformed with a new technological material.

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Rubber by TAF Arkitektkontor for Zero	Stitch lamp by TAF	Top lamp by Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter

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Stockholm 2011: Swedish architects TAF presented this collection of lamps based on the shape of a stretched rubber band at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week.

Called Rubber, the lamps for Swedish brand Zero have aluminium shades and come as pendant or wall lights.

Stockholm Furniture Fair took place 8-12 February. See all our coverage of the event »

The information that follows is from TAF:

It began with a commission from a landscape architect (Grontmij).

And TAF's first rubber-band inspired pole fittings stood ready at Strömkajen by Grand Hotel in Stockholm just in time for the Swedish crown princess's June 2010 wedding.

Now, Rubber is also available as indoor pendant and wall-/facade fitting.

By altering ordinary objects and placing them in new contexts, TAF offers the viewer a possibility to see the objects in a new light.

In the Rubber project, the stretchability, flexibility and materiality of the rubber band has given shape, function and expression to the collection.

The final material is aluminum. Rubber is available in white, black and beige as standard.

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Stitch lamp by TAF for Zero	Bottle by TAF for Zero	Workplace by TAF

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