FEATUREDLIGHT L16 Camera - 16 cameras in one combine for up to 52 megapixel images, post processing depth of field control, 35-150mm zoom and more... and we got our hands on a prototype to see what's inside.

Adorable little "Luke" ghost lamps - bright enough to read to, and they have a night light mode. Designed by Karim Rashid for Lucedentro.

In light of the Pen Type-A/Torr situation #49788, here's a great must read from Core77 - their series "The Design of Design Patents: What Every Designer Should Know About Protecting Your Work"

Luminaire Post is a minimal light fixture designed by Studio Ninho. Composed of cork, recycled cork sheet, pinewood, and flexible pp wiring, the construction of this light is extremely simple.

The ellipsoidal Terra Light, composed of 190 terracotta flowerpots, featured at the Milan Furniture Fair. By Tyson Atwell, RISD Furniture MFA '12.

FEATURED"As Above, So Below" stunningly beautiful projection mapping by Light Harvest at the DUMBO Art Show - including stop motion animation, and the suspension of over twenty performance artists from fly wires at sixteen feet off the ground.

Sometimes the friendly slopes turn hostile and every bit of survival skills needed. Jung Hoon Lee, Jung Eun Kim and Hyun Min Lee have conceptualized a snowboard/post with an OLED Safety Light embedded into the surface.

FEATUREDAn amazing breakfast in the beautiful Imperial No. Nine garden at the new Mondrian SoHo in NYC... the garden motif taken from entrance to bar is gorgeously fun ~ and so much glass and light!

Andrew Thomson's Buckminster Fuller tribute light- the geodesic campaign pendant!

Designer Soo Kwon fused high-design with low-tech manufacturing to create the Licht. The result is a beautiful and simple light fixture that was produced at a relatively low cost.

TY KU - Glowing Sake Liqueur has yuzu, mangosteen, honeydew melon, ginseng, (superfruit) goji berry, green tea, Soju, and Sake. And LEDs light the bottle when lifted.

loving the light-pixel campaign for Shimano. Designed by Chicago artist collective REAKT the ads are featured in Decline Magazine.

Ooooh more like the one in #11675 ~ these two Nintendo/Star Wars Lightsaber DS Stli LIGHT UP! two for $16

Phillip Toledano: Photographer with a light hearted view of his surroundings. Also responsible for the photos of the Baby Suit #382. [Editor's Note - from a series of portraits of GAMERS!]

Your walls, light switches and furniture are conquered by this trendy wall paper folk and your room becomes the kingdom of potato-queen! [EDITOR'S NOTE: gauckler's work was posted as #872 and on .com]

First recycling plastics and finally... recycled silicone! Oiko Design Office and Lékué are now able to incorporate up to 50% post-consumer silicone in the creation of new products.

Biocol Labs is the post-chemical pharmacy - cute, cheeky branding for these cures for whatever ails you. Reminiscent of Help! meds from a few years back.

Penco Bullet Ballpoint Pens - in brass (with adorable orange gift box) and light, colorful ABS plastic versions.

Tiny USB LED Lights - fell down a rabbit hole of these on Amazon. So simple, could be useful (night light in usb charger plug? in car? emergency flashlight on power bank?) or just fun for (teeny tiny) stocking stuffer or easter egg filler?

False Friends - You Used To Be My Light. Stunning new variant by COARSE. Available Tuesday, March 1. "18’’ glow-in-the-dark, gravity-defying sculpture about the impossibility of letting go of someone even when the forecast shows a lifetime of misery ahead."

IKEA PEKHULT - fat bunny with quilted ears and glowing belly night light, is the perfect toddler night light - click on/off, 15min auto shut off, and a nice not too bright yellow glow. (It's basically the 6$ KORNSNÖ inside the velcro pocket)

HUDS + GUIS!!!!!! I got sucked in with the Expanse post, but now i'm lost in the rest... there's something always so fun and inspiring about futuristic movie/tv scifi interfaces and tech.

SYNTAX is a socket system for s14 tube bulbs created by studio RLON. Speak a new language of light with tube bulbs.

Halfway between art and design, OOO My Design Studio presents Nomino Post. It’s a peg board storage system, which allows different compositions on the board and countless configurations to organize an decorate your home with a flare of optical art.

Printmakers from MT, NM, OR & WA collaborated to make a set of pre-stamped postcards that celebrate the USPS. From Power and Light Press, Michael Buchino, BT Livermore and Julia McNamara.

The State of UX in 2020 - From designing for the post-truth era to the rise of micro-communities, design as a team sport, invisible design systems, and more...

Fermob Rocking Horse Adada! With a light aluminium frame and pads that will not scratch the floor, it comes in a rainbow of colors, AND it's made from existing parts and tubes from other items of Fermob furniture, inspired by their Luxembourg collection.

Mooki Mello Posse Stool! Saddle shaped stools made of recycled paper pulp that is "light enough for kids to carry around but strong enough for a 220 lb adult to sit on it." They are the official chair of NYC Design Pavilion in Times Square for NYC Design Week 2019.

The Washington Post Magazine has 24 stunning covers about climate change

The BioLite Headlamp 330 is a NOTCOT favorite - so thin, so light, and so bright (with no nauseating bounce) we've been grabbing it for everything from night dog walks, to working under a car, to camping and more!

Lampa Fotosyntes by Sofia Ljung & Elia Anis. Such a lovely concept where the solar grow light can be moved to shift the growth of the plants!

bbhugme pregnancy pillow designed by Norwegian pre/post-natal chiropractors. It's multipurpose (full body, arm/back rest, rest ON your belly, nursing, newborn hangout) and adjustable (slide the silicone pebbles to adjust density and double as teethers)

Absorbed By Light sculpture by Design Bridge's Gali May Lucas for the 2018 Amsterdam Light Festival. Perfectly highlighting our screen obsessions, while becoming the perfect instagram photo spot too...

VIDEO"Twist" is a 3D printed pendant light that transforms to adjust the brightness with a simple twist.

Striker Concepts LED Lights - fascinating designs - from LED mines with 11 neodymium rare Earth magnets to stick at any angle, to triple LED panels that screw into a light bulb socket, to flexible/magnet LED panels and more.

Weleda expands their super popular Skin Food (a NOTCOT fave) into a line of products - from the original cream, to a light version, body butter, and lip butter.

BioLite's new HeadLamp is now on kickstarter and it's incredibly thin, light, and super bright! (We've been impressed with the sample they sent over!)

Schoolhouse Electric Radar Sconces! Great light colors, and adorable box with great details like cross cutout and toggle switch.

Orbit light turns full circle to mimic the beautiful movement of the galaxy's moons around their planets by Jesse Ede Collectible Design

The LAnd Magazine is coming soon! "The spirit of the alt-weekly is still alive in Los Angeles: A conversation with Jennifer Swann, co-editor of The LAnd magazine." in The Outline.

‘First Gear’ by London-based V2 Studios. The minimalist toys are also eco-friendly, using cork and plastic parts made from 100% post-consumer recycled high density polyethylene and 100% recyclable packing printed with soy based dyes.

Soda Chair by Marcel Sigel for DesignByThem. Powder coated 304 stainless steel, for indoor and outdoor use. Bold yet light.

MAD Restores the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel with Artistic Spaces for the 2018 Echigo-Tsumari Triennale

Emile Henry Modern Classics Pie Dish. Impulse bought this for strawberry cake (#63277) and have been loving it for pies, cakes, casseroles, and more!

THIJS BIERSTEKER x WEVAL. CLAVILUX NEUE - The installation, consisting of 6 rotating lens structures, translates Weval’s warm layered electronic rhythms into a world of refracted light particles.

Vogue has a video recipe with Lori A. Stern to make her lovely Flower Pressed Shortbread Cookies from #63251.

Seed Phytonutrients are packaged in a "shower-friendly post-consumer recycled paper bottle" made by Ecologic. Apparently "The plastic liner is so thin—95 percent thinner than conventional bottles— that it collapses as it’s used."

Jacquelin de Leon Plant Life Tote (in light and heavy weight)

JEM is an interactive public sculpture that senses your presence and responds with an ever-changing music & light symphony. Designed by ENESS. JEM can be found at Flowstate located in South Bank, Brisbane, Australia.

IKEA Krustad Plates - lovely patterns in light grey glossy feldspar porcelain. [NOTCOT photo!]

The Balsa Turbine is a custom designed lamp shade made from ultra light weight balsa wood and laser cut acrylic. It is intended to be used as a replacement for the IKEA REGOLIT floor lamp shade.

Sorry I Have No Filter from Sagmeister & Walsh. Clothes, pins, totes, pillows, phone cases, etc that are an updated twist on their Still Nasty collection (#62016).

Kodai Iwamoto Design EX-PORTATION 2018 at Ventura Future. Stunning "Plastic Blowing Project" heats and blows PVC pipes like glass into vases!

Contact's that can now transition? Johnson & Johnson Vision launches ACUVUE OASYS with Transitions Light Intelligent Technology

The artist Fabian Gatermann transformed the metro station "Schweizer Platz“ in Frankfurt into a light installation called CityLightCharts. All amorphous light objects are created through algorithms and data like migration, raw oil, gold or rich/poor indices...

Photographer Reuben Wu uses light sources affixed to drones to create heavenly light drawings, made visible through long-exposure photographs

Post-it Extreme Notes! Water resistant, durable and writable. Made with ultra-strong Dura-Hold Paper and Adhesive. Sticks to textured surfaces and in tough conditions. Sticks in hot and cold environments.

Studio Natural designed Delux, an icon table light for Martinelli Luce.

David Trubridge Navicula Light

Fold Pendant Light for Northern designed by Foldability. The light is made from wool fabric treated with a lamination process and supported by an inner structure that holds its shape.

A light, silent and clean electric off-road motorbike, the CAKE KALK encourages outdoor exploration with responsibility and respect.

The Riedel Glass Sphere. A stunning light installation made out of 1477 glasses. Designed and developed by ZANZOTTI ID for glass manufacturer Riedel.

ED045 lamp by Edizioni Design. Chandelier with brass structure and frosted light tubes.

"This plant will never die!" card with a Fiddle Leaf Pin by The Good Twin.

Dyke & Dean Scissor Pendant Light

The new Light Up Board sensor is designed by Bare Conductive and can power up the new Electric Paint Lamp Kit or any creative project.

Massess Grph Minimalist USB Light for the iMac. Declutter the desktop, Grph is a powerful spotlight that fits all new iMac models starting from 2012.

Plumen Ruche - a new made-to-order light shade that uses 3D printing. Created by Plumen with designer & engineer Hook Phanthasuporn.

ED046 lamp by Edizioni Design. Suspension lamp made by a brass circular tube and a led tube light.

VIDEOIngo Mauer's Blow Me Up inflatable LED light. Packaged in a can - just open, inflate, plug in, and suspend!

Wertel Oberfell's Atomic Light uses 3D printing not just as manufacturing technology, but to create a new kind of material that is lightweight, yet structurally stable.

Oliver Sweeney x Talisker Limited edition ‘Made by The Sea’ Gift Set. The boots have a unique flask pocket complete with 2oz etched sterling silver flask, the sole includes a piece of cask wood, and there's a compass built in as well.

Light bulb packaging design by Angelina Pischikova for CS combines the illustrations of insects and different shapes of light bulbs.

Olive & June Saturday Sandals - the perfect post-pedicure sandal you can tie a multitude of ways without touching your toes.

VIDEOKFC limited edition bucket sleeves create an interactive storytelling experience. When the phone is placed face-down on the table, the phone's proximity sensor automated the selected audio story, bringing the bucket to life with sound, light and vibration.

Globe - the terrarium lamp by Richard Clarkson Studio. It is a suspended handblown glass ball in 12" and 8" diameters, available with or without an integrated LED light source.

Double J, a lamp and a bookcase. Light radiates from above, while the weight of the books ensures the center of gravity and lets the posts bend and support the LED panel.

FEATUREDUnboxing the BioLite SiteLight Mini and XL! So fun and functional to light up any campsite or patio. My favorite is the macaron sized SiteLight Mini that stacks up so easily and plugs right into any USB battery.

Skip Hop Camping Cubs Baby Activity Gym. Perfect for those outdoor/animal loving parents! Complete with light-up firefly, turtle mirror, bear rattle and musical raccoon with wooden teether that plays “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

ENESS brought Sonic Light Bubble, a large-scale installation to life for White Night Melbourne, Australia. This giant synthetic organism attempts to humanize lighting-based public art, attracting passers-by to engage and interact with its beauty.

Oblure Balance Light designed by Victor Castanera

Coltura LED Grow Lights Frame. 56 LEDs shine in a spectrum that's optimized for plants. Mount on a wall or display on a tabletop. The magnet system lets you adjust the height of the light panel. Made in Vermont by Gardener's Supply.

GearJunkie takes a first look at Crescent moon EVA Foam Snowshoes - super light, rocker-shaped, and apparently responds more like a running shoe than a traditional showshoe.

Shattered Light is a compelling wallpaper by Rollout, based on the imagery of artist Brent Comber. The original design is part of a collection of LED embedded wood light fixtures, inspired by the instinctive process of finding order within imposed chaos.

FEATURED'Work Like An American' Posters by Wieden+Kennedy promote skilled/safe work and shines a light on jobs and heroic workers that often get overlooked.

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has unveiled his latest work, “Spectrum” (2017), a new installation that fills the Shiseido Gallery space in Tokyo with colorful light that radiates from an elaborately-designed prism.

Giles Miller has created a range of framed precision-engineered sculptures. The series incorporates masses of miniature structures protruding from the surface of the artworks, reflecting their surroundings and generating subtle variations in reflected light.

immersive light maze at Luneng Sanya Light + Art Festival, designed by Brut Deluxe

Filo is a concept for a connected light bulb that can serve as a platform for connected functionalities while maintaining a graceful obsolescence.

The new lighting collection Urban, designed by Dima Loginoff for Italian brand AXO LIGHT will be presented in Milan this April during iSaloni/Euroluce.

Strala CHAOS is a light sculpture made from five commercially available, interlinking, luminescent tubes. A control dial allows you to choose how many tubes you wish to have illuminated at any time, so you can create a mood to suit you.

Light emitting wood brings happiness and wonder to a Children's hospital. deigned by ENESS, installed at Cabrini Hospital Melbourne, Australia.

FEATUREDPower Practical Luminoodle. USB powered LED light strip that is waterproof, has magnets and ties, and acts as a lantern in a stuff sack. Such a simple idea, executed so thoughtfully, they’ve really elevated the LED strip.

Happy Interior takes us inside The GIR Store in Belgrade. I can't stop staring at these amazing huge wooden pots on huge modern looking push carts. Imagine wheeling your huge trees around as they need light?

Adidas AlphaBOUNCE Xeno - in core black with reflective patterns that light up with vibrant colors when you're hit with light.

The iKamper iTout - an all-in-one rolling storage cube that unfolds to include stoves, table, kitchen utensils, detachable light stand, gas holder, and more.

EDEN, Kinetic sculptures that celebrate natural beauty and balance by Agustina Bottoni.

Hong Kong NAP’s laser-etched URI LED Light Bulbs.

NONE is a short film by Ash Thorp that explores the balance of light and darkness. It has a personal narrative which plays with the notion of finding yourself amidst the noise around you.

Solarpuff is a solar-powered origami-inspired light that works for up to 12 hours after 8 hours of exposure to the sun.

Studio Lorier designed a set of pendant lamps which are each braided from one single piece of copper wire. The wire is securely woven by hand and results in a great see-through effect. When the light is on, a warm reflection of the copper will fill the room.

In Night to Day, a faceted polygon hangs in space. Duck inside and lights project the dynamic course of the day’s light, from dawn to bright sky, to a lightning storm, and finally sunset. On view at Artspace, Raleigh NC until Oct 29.

The Tube Lamp Clock by Lambert Kamps is an installation of 30 pneumatically moving Tube Lamps installed and steered as a digital clock. The amount of light can be controlled by moving the light emitting tube in or out the outer tube by compressed air.

Schoolhouse Electric Fuller Light - Faceted light in clear and white glass and brass and black fixture options. 10" Shade Diameter.

Mountain View lamp by designer Dima Loginoff for italian brand Axo Light. Material: glass Made in Italy. Best Pendant Lamp of the Year: Best of Year Awards, NYC, USA

Congrats to all the medal winning Olympians - female and male! Poignant post in Babe - "Congrats girl! Fiancé of former Miss California scoops his 25th medal: AKA – if we talked about male Olympians the way we talk about female athletes"

The Tyrolean Answer to Light. Almleuchten are radiant bodies of light made of old wooden beams, that bring the bold energy of their Alpine setting into your space.

VIDEOThe 2016 Olympic Cauldron in Rio by American Kinetic Wind Sculptor, Anthony Howe. Cloud Light IV is a mesmerizing 40 foot diameter, two-ton Olympic cauldron which symbolizes the sun as it spirals endlessly. See how it was made!

Lightpaintings by Stephen Knapp. The colors are created by using a special glass treated with layers of metallic coatings that act as a selective prism to separate focused light into different wavelengths of the spectrum.

Foam Cloud by Francisco Colom: a light installation that intelligently plays with the observer's position at the Photography Museum of Amsterdam.

The Ontwerp Duo Auric Candles reflect the light of the candle with a wall of gold. 3 sizes to make a beautiful setting.

Laurent Light by Lambert & Fils. Stunning collection!

VIDEOAkinori Goto's 3D printed zoetrope is a beautiful study of human motion expressed in a sculptural object.

Vintage Industrial fluorescent pendant lights. A Trainspotters exclusive, based closely on the original model manufactured in East Germany in the 1950’s. Made to high specification in the UK in cast aluminium with steel and glass components.

36w T8 fluorescent warm white tube.
Fully dimmable ballast (1-10v).

Each light is supplied complete with:

2 x 2m steel suspension cable
2m braided grey 5 core flex (dimmable)
Extra cable/flex available on request
Supplied fully assembled and tested to BS EN 60598 under accreditation by the Lighting Industry Association

Sonic Light Bubble, a living breathing public art installation responds with visuals and sounds when approached. lovingly sculpted by ENESS exhibited in Melbourne's Federation Square.

Puma has teamed up with BMW's Designworks division to develop these ultramodern shoes inspired by the GINA Light concept.

Pneuhaus, ‘Fabric Prism’ is an inflatable immersive color installation built around the fundamental properties of light and color.

Bill Ham was responsible for the first light shows in 1966 at San Francisco's fabled Avalon Ballroom. In a new interview, Ham explains what those days were like, and how boring overhead projectors became the light-show artist's coolest tool.

IKEA PS Collection 2017! Dezeen gives us a peek at the preview - and this year is all about minimizing waste. They collaborated with 21 designers to create 60 products focused on "high design values at a great price".

Sight Unseen's Q&A with IKEA’s Head of Research on the Future of Furniture, Mikael Ydholm, is fascinating. Interesting insights into how they mine their global data, focus on feelings, and innovate. (It's a sponsored post, but still a good read!)

Blackbody Best Before customizable USB light designed by Thierry Gaugain to be customized like an art toy. These chick like lamps come in black, white, and grey.

Bucket Wall Light by Pierre + Charlotte, designed and made in Tasmania, Australia, with timber only found in Tasmania.

FEATUREDThe Qeeboo Rabbits by Stefano Giovannoni seem to be taking over Milan Design Week! Adorable in a rainbow of colors in polyethylene - normal, baby, and light up styles!

Sou Fukimoto creates an immersive forest of light for COS in occasion of the Salone del Mobile

VIDEOTurn any post or tree into a swing with the portable swing by Dutch brand Weltevree. Fun design and concept by Dutch designer Thor ter Kulve

FEATUREDStunning Plant Embroidery by Sarah K. Benning. They will have you looking at the plants and leaves around you in a whole new light (as well as lovely planters, stands, desks, rugs and more!)

VIDEOOn the Mirante’s helipad, the Sensitive Star reacts to the stimuli of moving people and responds with changing light and sound. As a larger-than-life musical instrument, it is set to input visitors’ body movements, mixing them with a soundscape.

Singapore-based creative collective Monocoque has realized Chromaticity, an installation that seeks to explore the manipulation of light and its influence on the perception of colours.

Lightning Cup by Jin-woog Koo of the Nothing Design Group. Variations in thickness create beautiful landscapes when lit from within. It can be used as both a cup and a light.

Aurum Light "Fallen Angels" by Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz - The 2016 Milk Calendar

Big Design Pulse Lamps - Lovely light design with the colored cord tucked into a recycled glass bottle and the bulb sitting on top.

The new DUB pendant light manufactured by dreizehngrad works on a simple principle: a handmade shade of pressed aluminium is beeing supported by a wooden base.

Artecnica Bouquet Light by Tord Boontje. A collection of twenty diverse floral and bucolic elements that can be arranged in any desired composition just as one would when making a bouquet of flowers. Made of PP and PET.

Tom Dixon Lens Pendant Light - another fresnel lens inspired light (like Hope!) - this one is composed of 60-cm clear polycarbonate globe made of 12 pentagonal components subdivided into 5 prismatic triangular lenses

Window Seat Please. A limited edition zine by Karl Hab sharing 10 years of window seat views. Reminds me of the NOTCOT "Operation: Window Seat" posts!

Netatmo Presence - interesting idea in the connected home security camera space. Outdoor security camera with people, car, and animal detection, flood light, apps and more. Will be interesting to see how it is when it launches.

In an effort to share great designs and designers with others, Jung Soo Park started creating pixelated interpretations of iconic designs from the history to post on Instagram with little nuggets of information about each piece.

ADA is an analog interactive installation, kinetic sculpture, and post-digital drawing machine by Karina Smigla-Bobinski.

The "Architect's Christmas Tree" version 2.0 - this time with the NYC subway map! The post includes instructions for you to make your own.

PyroPet Dýri Candle - a reindeer holiday version of their classic cat with metal skeleton. "Dýri is a short for hreindýr, which means reindeer in Icelandic. But it also means beast. - Unleash the beast!"

NO_THING – An infrared light framework that turns (almost) anything into a device.

Keybright is an opensource tool to help anyone make a fun and beautiful light-installation at home in minutes. The vision is to build a DIY happy physical/digital experience at home.

The Light, sculpture by artist Sarah Beck, honors the final days of the tungsten light bulb, which will no longer be produced in North America as of 2015. It remains on view until all 360 light bulbs burn out, near the end of 2015.

This Japanese-style organic Voronoi cellular structure light is Made of laser cut Plywood by Mariam Ayvazyan.