YOY's peel light looks like you can peel the wall away to go see what magical world is beyond it...

&Bros' Compleated Cardboard Light - love the flat packing and assembly!

Pheasant Light by Ed Carpenter - the cousin of the iconic pigeon light! Made of vacuum formed acrylic...

FEATUREDNOTlabs Laser Challenge day 3! The Hook Light is a speed project made of left over cardboard and wood scraps and laser cut to notch together with a plumen inside.

DO NOT TOUCH - An interactive crowd-sourced music video for Kilo by Light Light.

VIDEOHYPERION -Titan of Light- Light Sculpture by Paul heijnen, Stop motion animated by Niels Hoebers

Phillipe Starck's chapeau light for Flos

Trunk To Think light it's a great light to get inspired. Nature based brand.

VIDEOMotion to Light Wakeboarding by Snap!Orlando and light painter Patrick Rochon was created for the Red Bull Illume 2013 photography contest. Mike Dowdy, Adam Errington, and Dallas Friday strap lights to their wakeboards and create an amazing effect.

VIDEOJotta created a dynamic live performance to celebrate the launch of the Xperia Z smartphone from Sony, featuring two industrial robots, lights and 50 litres of paint.

Cykno, an electric bicycle upholstered with fine leather. It is the brainchild of Bruno Greppi, Luca Scopel, Gianpietro Vigorelli and Riccardo Lorenzini. It is light (weighing only 26 kg) and strictly Italian.

Suck UK's Bunny Lamp - porcelain white rabbit with a light-up tail ~ adorable!

Nachtfluge is a photograph series by Kevin Cooley showing long exposure photos of airplane light trails.

Can Lights are the latest work of RISD designer Sarah Pease. The worn look of the dented aluminum body adds that ever popular rustic feel to any room.

Stalasso Pendant Lamp by Joeri Claeys - Inspired by a dripping stalactite, it can be a single hanging 'drop' or a string with various light elements combined with a corresponding formation on the floor of the room.

Cube Sensors ~ "small, cordless and connected devices that continuously measure temperature, humidity, noise, light, air quality and barometric pressure for every room, they can even pick up unwanted vibrations that shake up your building."

VIDEOThe Schwarzes Gold light by Ingo Schuppler is made from copper and charcoal and each one is crafted by hand in a delicate process.

Lighttag Project, by photographer Pedro Dias and plastic artist Rica Ramos, uses light projection technique with photographic direction.

'Morphology Chandelier' is a prototype lamp by Simon Weiss. The petals open, affecting the shape and intensity of light, in response to human presence, using an ultrasonic range finder and a linear actuator.

VIDEOLumière au Chocolat by Alexander Lervik -The Poetry of Light Chocolate Lamp. Heat from the lamp causes the chocolate to begin melting. Holes soon form, and as the light grows, the chocolate melts.

The reading light remastered. Focusing on using high intensity LEDs to replace the conventional lightbulb. This allowed for he exploration of a 'hollow' light design where no light source is visible.

Installation by Oki Sato at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.

A light and photography show titled 'A Warm Story About a Cold Place' next to Sweden's Icehotel allows visitors to ski in and out of the exhibit. Up now through when it starts to melt in April.

Kustaa Saksi's incredible paper display at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair.

Lladrò Meditating Woman Light II sculpted by José Luis Santes

RIDGID 15 Amp Work Light Basket Guard with 1-Outlet - love the simplicity of this light you can plug in just about anywhere, has on off switch, and use it like an extension cord with the outlet.

Industrial designer Diana Dumitrescu explores shapes and surfaces of the bulbs and fixtures in her new Black Light collection.

'Lena' inspired by the old miner’s lamp, is a small cordless torch light, equipped with a rechargeable battery.

Cantilevered Desk Lamp, the sculptural steel skeleton houses a long life, low energy LED bar in its pivoting arm, providing dimmable light from any angle. Designed, constructed by Taylor Donsker, Los Angeles.

A plantable light fixture called Babylon by Ryan Taylor will debut at Toronto Design Week.

123 is a led lamp, it is composed by three parts made by two metal bent legs and an oak main body. Designed by Federico Floriani.

The Worker is inspired by vinyl toys, heavy machines and the Lego dreams of most boys. Pascal Howe created this unusual light object as the first of a series.

VIDEOAntiVJ member, Joanie Lemercier, maps light projections onto a 3D origami wall.

VanJoost's Brazier ‘MIKADO’ Fireplace is light weight and compact, it can easily be moved from spot to spot depending on where the outdoor gathering is happening.

VICARA, a design brand based in Portugal, launched a new promo video of the table lamp cartonado.
This lamp is made of laser cut cardboard profiles, it is easily packed/mounted and gives a soft warm light ideal for cousy ambiences.

1,200 bulbs light up Lisbon at the 'LEDscape' installation, a bright collaboration between LIKEarchitects and IKEA.

Schoolhouse Electric Supply Co's Radar Sconce, inspired by a light originally used on an industrial parts washer.

FEATUREDadidas golf adizero superlight shoes, "so light, it’s like wearing nothing at all.” So naturally, they sent them over glowingly lit, floating over astroturf in a custom acrylic shoe box...

The Striker Magnetic LED Light Mine which can attach through its legs via neodymium magnets.

Floating Lights, an Urban Art Light Installation in Fete des Lumieres 2012, Lyon, by Travesias de Luz.

Acase Black Diamond III, bluetooth speaker and accompanying light show, syncs with the rhythm of whatever is in your collection, and environment becomes mini remote-controlled night club.

The elegant Bella Rockin Laser cat toy inspired by modern art. The laser light bounces as the ball moves.

LDC (Lighting Design Collective)'s Silo 468 transforms a disused oil silo in Helsinki into a wondrous light display and a civic space.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #27: Photojojo! Chance to win a bundle consisting of 4GB Eyefi, the Cell Lens Pouch (pouch w/ three lenses), Easy Macro Lens Band, Seat Belt Camera Strap, Photoshop magnets, and a Light Paint Can.

The unique Capside Lamps by Loïc Bard can double as hanging light fixtures or floor lamps.

GravityLight is a revolutionary new approach to storing energy and creating illumination. It takes only 3 seconds to lift the weight which powers GravityLight, creating 30 minutes of light on its descent. For free.

Folded Light Art lamps by Jiangmei Wu are like modular origami lampshades.

Oil lamp by Anton Bjorsing. 'The Cup' reflects the warmth and the light of needs within each soul.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #7: Areaware! Here's a chance to win a bundle including Flat Life Light, a Tree Top in green and Ursa Minor.

Micasa Lab's Nebula 12 project uses meteorological data from MetOff the Nebula forms to represent outside weather: yellow light for a sunny day; real cloud on that overcast winter morning using liquid nitrogen, WiFi, and high power vacuum suction.

Rakafuki friends, 30 year light bulbs in cute animal costumes to raise money for local schools.

INTERRUPTUS by 2CREATIVO - nice idea of graphic stickers to help label light switches!

Dodeck Light Series is a result of experiments with space filling, geometric structures. Desinged for merge by Thomas Hiemann and Markus Dilger

Designed & Manufactured in Edinburgh, Scotland. EB - A is a laser cut acrylic table / pendant light with a coloured fabric flex.

Burton gets together with Hiroshi Fujiwara's Fragment Design to bring to you the amazing Duct Line bag collection. Each piece is constructed from 3L space suit-like material which is both super light weight, highly durable and of course very stylish.

VIDEOBeams of light across Philly's skyline converge and move interpreting voice messages in a luminous public artwork

Aan-Uit launched two new models:
 Mist and Fragments, both lamps transform when the light is turned on. Print inside the shade is invisible when the light is off, but when on, shade lights up, and rich colors emerge.

Glossy meets matte, light meets durable… Meet PILOT, a new range of stools designed by Patrick Rampelotto and Fritz Pernkopf, using an innovative 3D propylene technique.

It’s Time to Read Me is an electric pin-up board and light-up drawing pin set that illuminates the memos that need action.

Sugar Glass - Sweet, sugary and light: Discover the sweet and exciting world of Fernando Laposse, an industrial designer turned into sugar glass artist

Arcades by Troika, a site-specific installation that creates an arcade of light created for Future Primitives, Biennale Interieur 2012, Kortrijk Belgium.

A roundup of Leo Villareal's three new light installations unveiled within the past month: 'Hive' and 'Buckyball' in NYC, and 'Cosmos' at Cornell University.

Kawandeep Virdee designed this card to be in the Museum of Pocket art ALL BUSINESS ALL THE TIME show. The card was designed through Processing, before being laser-cut in acrylic.

Cool Blue Light Experiment Kit - Learn about chemiluminescence with this chemistry set.

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

Trick or Treacle! Design Bridge has created limited-edition Halloween packaging for Lyle’s Black Treacle that turn into light-up pumpkin heads.

Birdfeeder made for the fastfood generation of birds. 'Fly thou' by Brian Wolter is equipped with solar panels to light up the signs and birdhouse when it gets dark, and during opening hours.

VIDEOLotus Dome by Daan Roosegaarde and his studio is a living dome made out of hundreds of ultra-light aluminium flowers that fold open in response to human behavior.

VIDEOGiant robot-driven 3D-printer that builds networked stalactites from light and streaming data. ‘Phantom Geometry’ by Kyle von Hasseln and Liz von Hasseln, developed in the Robot House at SCI_Arc.

'Wing' Flying Stairs by Max Ptk, happy and light feelings of free flight in each step, and clearly defined lines of the wings from modern aircrafts in the design.

What's the only thing that could make buying gin more exciting? Having the packaging light up in your hand …

Dear Design has created a stadium like design for the new Munich shop in Santiago, where the space is flooded with light and the shoes are hanging from a white metal structure.

Skylights: Dumbo is a sculptural pavilion that utilizes ambient lighting within Brooklyn Bridge Park to show star constellations on the ground via cast shadows, poetically addressing the side effects of light pollution in urban settings.

FEATURED3D Printed Optics - from Disney Research Pittsburgh. 3D printable "light pipes" that function like fiber optics mean you can 3D print light bulbs, have toys with built in displays, create switches/buttons/etc, and more.

Cinimod Studio's Walk The Light Installation tracks your movement using Thermal Motion at the V&A for London Design Week.

The new 'Oak' pendant light from Australian Designer Ross Gardam is hand-turned by a master craftsman in Melbourne.

‘From within, from without’ lamp aims to be a Borgesian object, and light seeming to originate from neither inside nor outside the wooden cylinder, creating a luminous liminality.

VIDEOMesmerizing light painting by Marshmallow Laser Feast and James Medcraft for the launch of McLaren’s P12.

Bund (Friends of the Earth Germany) turned a tree into a musical instrument by installing a structure on the ground. Each chestnut falling on the structure generates a sound and a light.

Fabulous large-scale light sculpture, 'Cloud' by Caitlind Brown made from over 5,000 repurposed light bulbs and pull strings allowing viewers to interact.

'Literature versus traffic' by Luzinterruptus designers for the 'Light in Winter' festival in Melbourne - Australia.

FEATUREDMercedes Drive Thru at Selfridges ~ Bompas & Parr style for Avant Garde Diaries. From an A Class filled with cheese to unexpected cocktails and treats to roller girls with light up high heel skates and more!

Ian Burns manipulates light with magnifying glasses to create and bend words on the wall. The effect is simple, until you begin to take a look at how hes making it.

Shroom, an outdoor light fixture with a motion detection system. Dims to 10 % light strength, but when someone passes by, it smoothly brightens to full luminosity.

°ES Lamp is a minimalist lighting fixture designed by °ES. The lamp can be wall-mounted for direct /indirect light or used as a table lamp.

FEATUREDCarnovsky x Blik wall stickers ~ an unboxing, a peek at the designs through the different colored glasses (to see the hidden designs), and installing it as a ceiling ring around a pendant light!

BABY PLUMEN! Our favorite designer light bulb now comes in a smaller form...

The Scent of Light from Shanghai design studio Super Nature Design.

VIDEOTransient by Pablo Gnecco is a temporary light installation for the group exhibition Tangled Up In My Friends at Nelson Street Gallery created using 16 yards of hanging staggered tulle, a looping video, and an overlay of a live image from the Kinect.

Peel designed by Tokyo based design unit, YOY. The light is meant to look like the wall paper is peeling off and light is beaming in.

VIDEONightfall by Colin Rich a three minute tour of light through the City of Angels. Beautiful!

Leanie van der Vyver imagined the mobile lamp 'Trek'. This light source can indeed move and adapt to its environment through a simple system of buttons that allow tender and give shape to the power cable.

The Hut Pendant Light a beacon of light and shape, which directs our gaze upwards, pointing us home. From Australian based Under.

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"

Kumi Yamashita creates incredible portraits in shadow.

Light door handle PEEK by dnd x Karim Rashid

Media artist Chris Salter's light and sound installation 'n-Polytope' at LABoral in Gijon, Spain.

FEATUREDThe world’s deepest swimming pool, an animated history of LEGO, and a camera it can capture light travel this week at NOTCOT.org!

FEATUREDNew Shayk Light by Amanda Betz for Artecnica - inspired by Mosque Sheikh Lotfallah in Isfahan

Lucie Koldova's Orbital Light is an industrial light using LED technology with a technical expression. Designed for grand-scale interiors and halls. Light consists of aluminium centerings and high powered LEDs and acrylic stripes.

Aurora Jungle-Juice - Aurora is TCCs black light phosphorescent take on jungle-juice. Originally conceived in 2006, it is a drink that is pink in natural light, but glows aqua-marine in black-light.

VIDEOResearchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a camera that captures images at one trillion frames per second, so fast it is capable of detecting light travel!

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes underwater aircrafts, water light graffiti and robotic Olympic cameras.

LuminAID is the world's first inflatable solar light. It can be used for emergency relief or a camping lantern.

The narrow and long container (8 by 40 feet) sits on a former light industrial site, which was cleared out and fully landscaped. It now serves primarily as a guest house to the client's main house on the same property. By Poteet Architects.

VIDEOThe Stellar Console Table by Jake Phipps is inspired by the natural attributes of amethyst geodes. 900 individually sized and angled mirror sections create an optical dispersion that breaks down the light and the surrounding environment.

Eliminator is a table lamp by Merve Kahraman which has different light sources in it. It uses paper as a curtain shade to the light on the top and the shredded papers as the nest of a new light at the bottom.

VIDEOThe Water Light graffiti system by Antonin Fourneau, a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water.

FEATUREDUnboxing of the iPad/iPhone charger/desk lamp by Philippe Starck for Flos. The D'E-Light is now available in a beautiful matte black!

Paparazzo Light for iPhone 4, 4S, and "5". The Paparazzo is a simple iPhone accessory that gives your photos and videos just the right light at just the right time.

Assembly by Kimchi and Chips is an installation of 5,500 physical pixels illuminated by digital projection.

VIDEOLight Form by Mathieu Rivier is a surface with multi-touch visualizations. The result is a simple, yet powerful interaction with the 3d surface.

FEATUREDBlackout at the Tate Modern! Exploring the surrealism galleries at the Tate by the light of Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun, a solar powered lamp that brings light to those without a reliable source of electricity (and great excuse for light graffiti!).

The lovely, recently completed, Carolines-Benimamet Metro Station in Valencia, Spain by Luis Ferrer is made up of a series of colored glass boxes and beautifully designed right down to its platform benches and light fixtures.

Rays of light seep through the window, fill the air and design spaces. It's moments like these that inspired designer Jayoung Baek, who forges objects with the delicacy of embroidery. And an ethereal series of vases is the result.

VIDEOThe Rhythm Pendant Light by Arik Levy for CREA.

Jalopnik puts together the great headlight quiz. Nice simple drawings that will challenge even the car folks out there.

By attaching twigs onto our multi-purpose utensil heads, Backpackers and Campers can travel light and scavenge for their handles. With aims to hybridize indoor comfort with outdoor objects, these utensils will enhance the outdoor experience.

VIDEO‘Particles, a light installation by Daito Manabe & Motoi Ishibashi at YCAM.

blink(1) is a USB status light that allows you to set color, brightness and pattern for customizable alerts such as local temperature, incoming emails, computer status, and even program ones yourself.

A portable indoor tent kit, that gives you the opportunity to create a personal space wherever and whenever you want. Build up the tent, plug in the light cable and you’re guerrilla camping in your own home.

L’École Polyvalente Claude Bernard Primary School shows how color, light, and depths, can help children respond better to their environment.

2500 Watt - Simple and fascinating idea! Specific pendant light designed by anagraphic.

Fascinating idea from Mammut ~ you can attach a headlamp to this special Ambient Dry Light Bag to created a nice diffused light lamp... and when not in light mode, use it like a regular dry bag.

Block is a minimal side table designed by Simon Legald for Norman Copenhagen. The trolley is made of steel and ash, available in light or dark grey, and mint.

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.

'Aki' pendant lamp inspired by nature, with light sources embedded in the Okume wood structure. By Studio Dreimann.

FEATURED LED Glühbirne Nature Bulbs by Process - a beautiful LED light bulb design... stunning in person!

No ordinary Seesaw by ENESS. A Tilt of Light - now playing at Melbourne's Federation Square.

VIDEOSusanne de Graef's The rhythm of light for La Chance a chandelier that rises and sets.

"I sculpt shadow with light and sometimes light with shadow, but both function in essentially the same manner. I take objects, carve and place them in relation to a single light source." - Kumi Yamashita

The BlancoWhite Light & Shelving by Antoni Arola is part desk lamp, part shelf.

'A-Company' Table Collection is visually light with beautiful nesting detail between the powder-coated steel leg and table surface, in various sizes and colors. By Well-Groomed-Fox.

The Sustainable Light Swing by Guilherme Pena Costa and Ingrid Gabor. It invites people to use playgrounds during the night. All the energy used to light the LEDs is powered directly in response from the swinging action.

Blink Steady is a smart bike light that turns on automatically when you are riding and shuts off when you’re not. It also features a light sensor that detects when it’s dark enough be on.

The Jormungand Watch is truly brilliant! The face of the watch is raised up, where a sliver of a LED light cause the hour "hand" to glow.

Jonas Wagell's Lightworks - a small lamp offering a dimmable flood light that works on sideboard, desks, shelves, or as a wall or ceiling fixture.

My Favorite FabricatorsTM Pretty in Plastic created this awesome giant Lite Brite installation with 6 inch light pegs, to engage crowds during a sold-out show by the band Fun at House of Blues in LA.

The “ökay lamp” has sockets to plug into other electrical appliances. BUT the more electricity the appliances need the weaker the light will become - a reminder that electricity is not unlimited.

FEATURED24 hours of light in Iceland, island hopping in Thailand and hillwalking in the Scottish highlands are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

Gorgeous light painted photography from Simon Berger.

The Stream Light collection by Miguel Flores Soeiro for OWN.

Australian Designer, Volker Haug, speaks about his playful lighting designs and how he creates them.

VIDEOResults from a 5 day workshop held in the SCI-Arc Robot House, taught by Kruysman-Proto, focusing on synchronous robotics. Dynamically reconfiguring a geometric primitive to create bullet time light drawings.