Pomo summer: Memphis Group designer Martine Bedin's Super Lamp can be trailed along like a dog on a leash, demonstrating the collective's playful style. This next article in our summer series on Postmodernism tells the story behind one of Memphis' most comical products. More about Postmodern design: Super Lamp by Martine Bedin
Northmodern 2015: Stockholm studio TAF Architects has contributed a spun aluminium pendant to Danish brand Muuto's lighting collection. More about TAF Architects' lightweight aluminium Ambit pendant joins Muuto collection
Austrian arts collective Neon Golden has created an immersive light installation that mimics the movements of fireflies (+ slideshow). More about Neon Golden replicates swarm of fireflies with light installation
Studio Job has created a series of lamps shaped like peeled bananas for an exhibition at Belgium's Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery. More about Studio Job's Banana Show exhibition opens in Belgium
Northmodern 2015: Swedish designer Jens Fager has used a new bamboo-based material to form a lampshade that joins Danish brand Muuto's line of lighting products. More about Muuto adds Jens Fager's bamboo Grain pendant to lighting collection
This hanging acoustic panel system by Swedish design student Johanna Jacobson Backman has LEDs set into the underside to provide lighting for desks positioned below. More about Johanna Jacobson Backman hides lights within Block hanging acoustic panels
A wooden table lamp designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for his 1911 Taliesin house in Wisconsin is now available internationally. More about Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin 4 lamp released by Yamagiwa
Extra Moooi: explore furniture and lighting by designers including Marcel Wanders, Studio Job and Jaime Hayón, which is currently on display at Dutch design brand Moooi's new US store. More about Interactive slideshow: explore Moooi's New York showroom
Installations formed by blending coloured lights, and a lamp based on jellyfish were produced by Dutch designer Dennis Parren for the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2015 (+ movie). More about Dennis Parren creates colourful lighting installations for Saint-Etienne design biennial
Artek is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala's birth by re-releasing a set of glass lampshades he created in the 1960s. More about Artek reintroduces coloured glass lampshades by Tapio Wirkkala
New York 2015: Brooklyn studio Pelle has unveiled a range of modular, stick-style lighting that can be configured into simple or complex shapes. More about Pelle's stick-style lighting enables multiple configurations
Philippe Starck has spoken about the pros and cons of technology, saying that designers are morally obliged to use the latest materials to create more efficient products – but warned that dependence on screen-based devices is "sick" (+ transcript). More about LED technology means designers are "obliged to redesign all lights" says Philippe Starck
Designer Philippe Starck has created a spotlight that can be adjusted with a broomstick. More about Philippe Starck's "simple" ceiling light can be rotated with a broom
New Zealand studio Designtree has added a corner module to its flat-pack Frankie lighting system, enabling a range of new configurations including X shapes and loops. More about New module enables Frankie Pendant light to go around corners
New York 2015: in the next of our series of interviews with New York designers, David Weeks explains how he kickstarted the city's vibrant design scene – and why he doesn't want to be typecast as a lighting designer (+ slideshow). More about "I don't want to be the lighting guy" says New York designer David Weeks
Brooklyn studio Tokenlights has designed a set of hand-blown glass pendants based on the fruit of a rare Japanese plant (+ slideshow). More about Tokenlights creates pendant lamps shaped like Japanese fruit
Bangkok-based THINKK Studio has constructed a low-tech machine that lets users customise the shape and colour of their own thread lamps. More about THINKK Studio's Lanna Factory machine produces customisable lampshades
New York 2015: in the latest in our series of interviews with leading New York designers, Bec Brittain explains why she studied philosophy and architecture before turning to lighting (+ slideshow + transcript). More about "I don't think I was a particularly good architect," says NY lighting designer Bec Brittain
New York 2015: Brooklyn studio Workstead has created a range of light fixtures with brass disc-shaped reflectors. More about Workstead's Orbit lights feature movable metal reflectors
Japanese designer Yu Ito has designed a floor lamp for Italian furniture brand Formabilio with lipped tray-like shelves that move up and down its neck and stack inside the base. More about Shelves slide up and down the stem of Yu Ito's Impila lamp