Maison&Objet 2015: Canadian lighting brand Bocci has launched a light made by forcing molten glass into a loose heat-resistant fabric pillow. More about Bocci debuts cloud-shaped 73 glass pendant lights
Northmodern 2015: American designer Shane Schneck has created a silicone lamp for Danish brand Menu that can be used in four different positions. More about Shane Schneck's Bollard light is four lamps in one
Stockholm 2015: London design studio Industrial Facility has collaborated with Swedish lighting company Wästberg to create lamps that provide power from multiple USB outlets. More about Industrial Facility's w152 lamps charge electronic devices
Maison&Objet 2015: hand-cut patterns cast shadows from within these blown-glass lampshades by London designer Benjamin Hubert (+ slideshow). More about Benjamin Hubert experiments with glass blowing to create Beacon lamps
Stockholm 2015: Stockholm-based Note Design Studio has created a series of lamps wrapped in pastel-coloured textiles for Swedish brand Zero (+ slideshow). More about Note Design Studio encases Elements lights in soft-hued fabric shades
Northmodern 2015: Eindhoven studio OS & OOS has designed a modular lighting system joined by rubbery connectors that allow users to create sculptural installations (+ slideshow). More about Mono-Light by OS & OOS twists and bends into different configurations
Swedish designer Jonas Wagell has created a simple lamp with a concrete base and a brass dimmer switch for Danish furniture brand Menu. More about Jonas Wagell designs Concrete Lamp for Menu
These glass pendant-lighting shades by Czech designer Jan Vacek are intended to look like contraceptive rubber sheaths. More about Jan Vacek designs lamps shaped like condoms
ECAL graduate Renaud Defrancesco has designed a collection of LED bulbs that double as decorative pendant lights. More about Renaud Defrancesco's LED lightbulbs are shaped like lampshades
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen explains how she created a lamp powered by bioluminescent bacteria usually found on octopuses, in this movie filmed in Eindhoven. More about Teresa van Dongen's bioluminescent lamp is "a new way to create light"
Over 1000 inflated and illuminated latex gloves appeared to reach out from the surface of a French lake in this installation by Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus (+ slideshow). More about Luzinterruptus creates "weird and sinister" lighting installation using floating latex gloves
German industrial designer Veronika Gombert has created a suspension light for illuminating parts of the room that aren't directly below the electricity point. More about Veronika Gombert's Umleiter lamp hangs offset from its ceiling rose
Architecture studio Brut Deluxe has designed this year's Christmas lights in Madrid to work like a "flip book on an urban scale", taking spectators on a trip to the moon as they walk through the city (+ movie). More about Madrid installs moon-themed Christmas lights
News: Danish furniture brand Muuto has chosen a lamp that bends like a fishing rod as the winner of its annual Nordic design award for emerging talents. More about Nick Ross' Tension Lamp wins Muuto Talent Award 2014
American firm Choi + Shine Architects has created tube-shaped lighting modules that assemble into three-dimensional arrangements using magnets. More about Modular lighting system by Choi + Shine Architects sticks together with magnets
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has developed a bespoke projection lens that "unravels light" to turn an arc-shaped section of Amsterdam's Centraal Station into a rainbow (+ movie). More about Daan Roosegaarde lights up Amsterdam station with rainbow projection
Design Miami 2014: Italian artist Massimo Uberti has bent neon tubes into the shape of a room for an installation commissioned by British motor company Bentley (+ slideshow). More about Massimo Uberti sculpts neon tubes into a room for Bentley
Stockholm design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has created a set of three huge cone-shaped lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune designs giant conical pendant lamps for Wästberg
Hundreds of plexiglas tetrahedrons rippled with waves of illumination in response to changing light conditions for this installation by design collective Pangenerator (+ movie). More about Pangenerator's installation of translucent pyramids flashes in waves of light
The German capital is commemorating 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall with a trail of illuminated balloons along its former route (+ movie). More about Berlin celebrates "fall of the wall" anniversary with 8,000 glowing balloons