Experience Vivid Sydney, largest celebration of light, music and ideas in the Southern Hemisphere... from now to 11 June 2012.

VIDEOBright Light, an app that tells you the sunnier spots of your city by Ray-Ban.

LOOP | Quentin de Coster. A suspension lamp made of steel tubes and wire offers a new way of directing light.

Light trail dresses series by photographer Atton Conrad.

Francisco Gomez Paz's 'Nothing' is not simply a standing light. Nothing is innovative thanks to the type of illumination is uses which linked to the technology employed here: LED.

The panic button light switch!

'Future Self' is a new light installation by rAndom International that interacts with dancers choreographed by Wayne McGregor, music composed by Max Richter.

Ruskii and Ruskii Twist are two suspension lamps presented during the light+building 2012 in Frankfurt. Designed by Enrico Zanolla for Viso.

An interesting work by artist Manfred Kielnhofer entitled 'Glowing Light Balls Bench' and lays at the intersection between art and industrial design.

Ingenious light sculptures by James Nizam. These sculptures were created by harnessing and manipulating sunlight inside of a house before it was torn down.

BOKY, Beautiful light fixture solution from the Belgian lightening company DARK. Design by Frank Janssens

The SSB-1 Erik Heywood for BOOK/SHOP. Made in California of natural birch ply, each unit is cut and trimmed by hand to ensure an exact fit, then matte clear-coated, edge-banded, and hand rubbed with a light finish of natural beeswax.

Magnetic Bike Lights from Copenhagen Parts that automatically turn on when you attach them.

Michael Hanson's Vinyl cover with analog light animation translates Allan’s sensorial music into a visual experience with elements of sensuality.

Growing Lampshades. This project deals with the issue of light creation. Shown at the Lambrate, Milan 2012. Concept & design by Peter Kraft with the support of Moritz Fuhrmann Jochen Maria Weber & Julian Eich Reuter.

An installation piece using acrylic, zipties, fishing line, iPhone accelerometers, light sensors, and radio by Christian Poules, Alex Diaz, and Adam E. Anderson. 'Refract' at Brown University Granoff Center.

VIDEORichard Kendall and his crew have made a 3d bullet camera rig for light painting. It produces an amazing effect that you can rent for your next party.

Catherine Werdel's Eclipse light - Eclipse is formed by two glass cylinders, wood slats and a metal construction. The higher you place the internal cylinder the less light you get.

FEATUREDThis glowing tunnel is a digital light show leads into Ben Jones' video installation at the Avant/Garde Diaries Transmission LA: A/V Club at MoCA.

'Ori' hanging light inspirated by origami art by Lukas Dahlén.

With a focus on creating prismatic crystalline faces and volumes that trap and amplify light reflections, CAI Light’s latest collection continues the company’s tradition of bold, forward-thinking design.

Artemide is continuing its research into light with a new collaboration: Issey Miyake’s Miyake Design Studio. The exquisite IN-EI: a play on light obtained by folding and unfolding a sheet of recycled material.

'Fin Light' hanging lamps inspired by the birch forests of Finland, is part of the Luminosity project, on display in the Fuorisalone at MOST, the space/event curated by Tom Dixon at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia.

VIDEOFront Design's Surface Tension lamp blows bubbles that catch the light and burst at the touch.

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

Art Light Installation by Luz with light in The Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid.

Luna lamp. A hovering brass disk reflects the light which is embedded in the base unit. By Knudsen Berg Hindenes.

Typogami: An Animated Typeface Inspired By Origami. Adjust the color, light, shadow intensity, or fold angles, with the free download. Designed by Calango.

The newest Pavilion from EmTech (AA) + ETH is a light timber sun shade for the grand stairs in front of the architecture department of the ETH.

VIDEOIncredible fly-through of the Linear Coherant Light Source (LCLS), a free-electron laser facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Impossible Project by Nigo Edition PX70 Colorshades - yellow, orange, red, pink, lilac, dark blue, light blue, green, black and white featuring the logo of Nigo

SolarLed by Luz Difusion. A complete power production kit that transforms the sun’s light into electricity. A daytime charge on sunny or cloudy days will light each Led for 8 hours.

'Kibako' light inspired by traditional japanese lights and designed by Louis Maucout and Mathias Astua.

The cool 'Freude auf Morgen' interactive light installation in Freiburg, Germany last month in honor of the 111th anniversary of the technology company Alexander Bürkle.

Beautiful light installations by Chris Fraser.

Dunk light by Karl Zahn ~ a glowing basketball hoop!

The Zurich based design studio Bureaupuree designed the Cone Light 01 series and was nominated for the 'die besten 2011' award of the Hochparterre Magazin in Switzerland.

‘Anima’ is a light door handle that explores the tactile experience. The design consists of a body made out of brushed stainless steel supporting a leather strip.

A bolt of unexpected bright color offsets light wood in a Swedish summerhouse. The gorgeous summerhouse is a converted farmhouse in the southernmost Swedish region of Skåne by LASC Studio.

Gaia Bio Lamp, a mobile natural ambient light by Floriane Rousse-Marquet.

Beautiful 'spoon lamp' by British designer-maker Clive Roddy uses 115 dessert spoons to create pinecone-inspired light

A light designed by American designer, Sarah Pease, from readily-available, standard parts, combined with solid black walnut and a soft, fabric cord.

Upgeripptes, a traditional German 'Frankfurt Cider Glass' design turned into a striking tea light by Andrea Moseler.

VIDEOJohn V. Muntean's angle sculptures create a variety of forms with light and shadow. Great videos of these incredible dynamic sculptures

Canon 5D MKIII !!! Specs are announced ~ faster, better low light, SD slot, 60fps at 720p, slightly higher res... tempting.

French artist Claude Lévêque creates dream-like light installations and neon sculptures, currently has a show at La Maison Rouge in Paris.

Light sculptures by Makoto Tojiki.

Mass Light, marble pendant from Norm Design.

Future Studio's new Light Stage House in Japan is cleverly designed to add lots of natural light, while still managing to keep the space private.

Scientists discover Buckyballs (microscopic spheres, where 60 carbon atoms are arranged in a football-like pattern) in a solid form, around a pair of stars some 6,500 light-years from Earth.

VIDEOThis July, Nike will be releasing the Flyknit Racer. The new running shoe model will weigh in at just 5.6 oz for a size 9, almost as light as an iPhone 4S.

Photographs of brilliant colors made by ink, light, and glass by Pery Burge.

This Special Museum of Math Edition of the popular Frabjous puzzle/sculpture by Mathematician George Hart is made of Dichroic acrylic which causes it to display a rainbow of colors as it moves in the light.

The Faló lamp represents the campfire light that brings people together.

At Millennium Park, Chicago, Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, also known as 'The Bean,' comes to life with an interactive light show called Luminous Field by LuftWerk, the creative vision of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero.

Manufactum Globelampe Spiralfaden ~ gorgeous filament in this light bulb

Michael O’Brien's low cost surgical lighting lamp, part of the India Future of Change competition.

The complex structure of The Cocoon_FS pavilion by Pohl Architects was constructed from leaf-like panels of fiber-reinforced polymer. Its translucent shell admits light during the day and illuminates its surroundings at night.

Beautiful light installations by Tamar Frank.

F-Light is a modular lighting system made of discarded plane, designed by Paul Coudamy for Flown. All pictures by B. Boccas.

The playful furniture FLIP for kids is designed to support children’s creativity and activity. By flipping and turning the exceptionally light chair it changes its appearance and unfolds many different sitting positions.

Researchers have discovered a unique visual attribute called image defocus that jumping spiders use in attacking and catching prey, proven in part by spiders jumping with deadly accuracy in green light, but fumbling in red.

VIDEOGLOBALedit App for Surface at NRF 2012. Great digital light table.

Doug Wheeler's trippy light installation at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York, is the closest thing to floating in a cloud. All sense of depth perception is lost upon entering the space. Very cool.

VIDEOThe Inflativerse, a mobile planetarium developed at the University of Nottingham designed to inflate in 5 minutes and house realistic light projections of the night sky.

Recycling meets Art - The suspended light “Beute“ is made of corrugated board. Each light is unique.

Father-and-son Daniel and Noam Libeskind have concocted a slender, faceted chandelier that 'mimics and reproduces the cosmic light that fills the Universe'.

SKIN by design firm P-06 Atelier in collaboration with architect Joao Luis Carrilho da Graça is a permanent installation of moveable walls combining stenciled cutout graphics patterns, typography and light at The Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon.

VIDEOInformative and engaging new PSA motion graphics video by Origo Branding Company — Little Pill, Big Problem. Ohio's Opiate Story. Kinetic type and dynamic illustration help shed some light on Ohio's growing epidemic.

Tim Mackerodt has designed 'Per', an unusual light prototype to fix on your window.

This wire mood lamp creates beautiful patterns in light and shadow.

The Shadow Pavilion by PLY Architecture is made by aluminium cones and geometric tethering which reflects ambient light conditions, abstracting the sky and planting it on earth.

Vizio gets into the PC world with some super sleek looking desktop and laptop setups ~ very mac inspired meets chrome look... 24" and 27" all-in-one PC, 14" and 15.6" ultra light, and a more powerful 15.6".

The Astronomer's Torch Minty Geek kit. The solder your own kit creates a controllable light source with both red and white light, all packed in a retro mint tin.

Rafael DeCardena’s Firewood Lights – a glowing abstract version of a fireplace. Constructed of angular cut wood, Firewood Lights are internally illuminated with a warm light.

A light weight tensegrity structure makes the bulbs of Brendan Ravenhill's Cord chandelier appear to float.

The CSYS LED task light from Jake Dyson, a sleek adjustable and dimmable lamp.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #27: Fred bundle of Yum Bots, Letterpress Cookie Cutters, Dream Light, Food Fighters Toy Soldiers, a Doomed Crystal Skull Shot Glass, a Gym Glass Sports Bottle, Paper Airplane Door Stop, and Dishplay Gloves!

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.

Incredible series of photos of bioluminescent sea creatures by Edith Widder, which shed light on the dangers of pollution.

Math meets art with Comali. Give some light to your wall with this lighted frame, holding a tessellation made by only one folded sheet of handmade Japanese washi paper.

A hybrid chair combining a light and comfortable methacrylate body with four strong oak legs.

Light decorative metal panels 'MePas' by Caino Design.

SnowXu foldable snowshoes. The most portable full-function showshoes. Light, compact and easiest binding of any snowshoe. When folded a set is smaller than a yoga mat bag (bag is included). Easily fit 2 sets on a single pack.

Simply replace any standard light bulb with our innovative AudioBulb Wireless Speaker Light Bulbs to add rich, full-range audio and bright light to any room—no installation required.

FEATUREDThe amazing night photography of Jan Leonardo Wöllert and his technique: LAPP - Light Art Performance Photography. Amazing what one can do with choreographed light and a long exposure.

FEATUREDNew Mexico Biopark Society's holiday light sculptures, "River of Lights", in the Botanic Gardens ~ from whale to octopus, t-rex to cars, and more! Even video of it action...

Drop Light is a new concept developed by the people at DOOlight

Collection of light, a new project from Humans Since 1982 which makes you think a little differently about how we catergorize things.

It's The Thought That Counts ~ Partners & Spade 99¢ Product Polaroids "In light of these economic times, we are offering a 99¢ polaroid of any over-priced product in our store (packaging included)."

When we saw these amazing shots of Pablo Picasso’s light drawings, collected from LIFE, over at How to Be a Retronaut, we were — pardon our pun — dazzled.

Immersive light displays make up XYZT, Les paysages abstraits, an exhibition created and curated by the digital art duo Adrien M and Claire B in Grenoble.

Chrome Citizen Buckle Bag - NIGHT Series - love the stealthy black in the day (down to logo and signature seat belt buckle) and it all goes reflective with light!

Design of open-source platform for the creative use of OLED (organic light-emitting diode). Designed by labme. OLED creates the largest installation in the world with 1400 provided by OSRAM

FEATUREDA look at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans at night ~ it turns in to quite a glowing light show ~ take a peek at our pics and video!

VIDEOTime lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011.

Swedish artist Christian Partos' playful light installation with 36 bulbs swiftly and elegantly ‘dancing’ in space.

Solid Gray is a lightweight backpack that stands up to heavy use. Cut and folded from a single sheet of copolymer, it makes for an extremely light hardshell.

FEATUREDWhat do you get when you combine a robot arm, turntable, scans and 3D prints of a dancer, music and a light? 16 Forms by Daito Manabe (direction, 3D data editing, lighting+sound design) + Motoi Ishibashi (robot arm programming)!

The White series by Artek are minimalistic lamps with a soft but bright light. Perfect for your living and working space.

VIDEOPRISMA1666, an interactive light installation consisting of 15 triangular randomly distributed crystal blocks. Lovely collaboration between Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design.

Christian Lessing's Math Tree – a mathematically inspired light installation.

'Anisha' elliptical LED light by Lievore Altherr Molina for Foscarini.

VIDEOHYBRIDScope, a space, light and sound immersive interactive scopic experience. A viewing interface which designs ‘hybrid’ relationships between users and the abstract, recognizable city fragments of sound and image.

Concentricity 96 is a kinetic sculpture by Joshua Kirsch where movements are translated into light.

Jason Hawkes captures Europe in a different light as he mastered the art of taking unique photos in 3D.

These straps are melted in form with intensive heat. This allows the swiss designer Markus Bangerter to create such light but very powerful structures like in this gorgeous chair.

VIDEOA time lapse film was shot during the Icelandic Midnight Sun in June of 2011. A beautiful look at what 24 hours of light looks like.

One of Dev Harlan's beautiful light sculptures

VIDEOThe Great Volkswagen Art Heist - VW Canada creates outdoor exhibits featuring limited edition, framed long-exposure light painting photographs created by the taillights of the Jetta GLI and encouraging people to 'steal' them.

'Up' outdoor or indoor light is made of teak wood and designed by Nakarin Kemseela.

Quad Loop Carbon Filament Light Bulb. 60W. 230V. These beautiful hand crafted carbon filament light bulbs ignite nostalgia for the traditional and original light bulb of the 1930's.

FEATURED"Romantic Star Projector" fills your rooms with a spattering of light constellations...

Poetry of Light by Pitsou Kedem Architect has a grooved and perforated façade that plays with how light can effect space.

Over 50 light installations and video projections at last night's lively 'Bring To Light' Festival on Brooklyn's waterfront in Greenpoint, NYC.

Tumi Traverso Compatto Travel Reading Glasses ~ interesting to see how the arms tuck under the nose pieces to lie super flat. Carbon graphite frame and photochromic lenses that darken on exposure to ultraviolet light.

VIDEOThe Silhouette and Eclipse Light-Lights by Angela & Ger Jansen.

London based designer Oscar Diaz designed a candle holder where you can light the candle without burning your fingers.

“Soak, Dye in light.” by Everyware is an interactive canvas that bleeds color when touched. Using the Kinect and custom software, the installation begs to be poked.

Draw in Light, beautifully packaged look book with branding by We are Useful.

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.

The colorful new design of the Lexington Avenue Agency office in Valencia, Spain. Brilliant design solution to a small office with little natural light.

Beyond Infinity, an immersive installation by French artist and theorist Serge Salat, is a visually stunning piece. The mirrors, light, music, and fractal art provide a unique perspective on infinity.

From Sept 30 - Oct 2, Minimaforms will stage a multimedia, smoke and laser performance. They will collect messages online and via text about memories and aspirations for Detroit, and these will be broadcast in a massive laser light display.

New results from Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have confounded physicists - because it seems subatomic particles have beaten the speed of light. This may change everything!

Designed not just look cool, the Revolight system turns your bike wheels into replacements for your headlight and tail light, illuminating the ground around you while alerting drivers to your presence.

Night Bright by Design I/O is an interactive installation of nocturnal discovery where children use their bodies to light up the nighttime forest and discover the creatures that inhabit it.

Shape Is Use (SIU) is an extremely compact system that unfolds to provide light, and only the amount of light needed, best suited and required by the user. By Quentin Vaulot.

Rocking Light by Vasily Butenko.

FEATUREDWhat happens when you plug two Plumen design light bulbs, a Blue Loung Mini Dock iPhone charger, and a lamp together? Mashup iPhone Charging Super Lamp!

A site-specific light sculpture by Warsaw based installation artist Jerzy Goliszewski. Magic!

VIDEOThis is possibly the first Digital 3D Rendered Film, made in 1972 by Ed Catmull, the founder of Pixar, and Fred Parke with Robert B. Ingebretsen.

Refined geometric form dressed in unpretentious materials. Corrugated cardboard shade and steel socket housing. The Hex Light from Von Tundra.

One of the latest works from Canadian designer and Design Academy Eindoven graduate Lukas Peet, this hanging pendant loop light is currently in the prototype stage.

The Lola Wood Light, an American Oak veneer shade that floats midair.

The Windmill Factory installed 217 solarpowered LED lights on a decaying pier in NYC's Hudson River for the eco-art installation 'Reflecting the Stars.'

A light source that can be a table or a floor lamp, characterized by minimal geometric shapes and a stylized form inspired by the big moths, designed by Grzegorz Rozwadowski.

FEATUREDThis is the Brake Light of the 1917 Packard Twin Six 2-35 All-Weather Landaulet ~ a Horseless Carriage.

Light paintings from Darius twin (Darren Pearson)

This Montana home, Stone Creek Camp, has walls made out of firewood, and a grass roof! We're speechless.. Just don't light a match around it!

Synecdoche is an interactive light installation by Casey Watson.

This clock offers a different perspective on time: every angle creates a new experience, with an emphasis on the inseparable elements of time and light. By Leff Amsterdam.

Regine Schumann's light-infused installation, Dreamteam, at Art Santa Fe 2011 last month.

Ribbons of light flutter through empty, open spaces, weaving luminescent floating images that stand out against the stark, cold appearance of the abandoned garage.