O*GE's Enchanting Solar-powered Night Garden, at the first 'Light in Jerusalem Festival' June 10-16, 2009 - Videos and photos of this exciting installation. By Gaston Zahr & Merav Eitan.

Mega churches by Christoph Morlinghaus
His ’straight photography’ of empty spaces often leave a mystical and surreal impression, even though Christoph declares not to use any additional light...

A sinuous light structure at the Civic Center in Phoenix provides shade during the hot summers.

Brilliant never seen before photographs of Pablo Picasso's 'Flashlight Centaur'. Picasso’s light drawings—were made with a small flashlight in a dark room, the images vanished almost as soon as they were created.

Light up puppets from L.A. puppet company Swazzle. Created for their new show Water Color, covered with hundreds of feet of hand stitched Electroluminescent Wire. See before and after pics on the puppet101 blog at swazzle.com!

Planters indoor/ outdoor: aluminum, several configurations. Very light, economic to ship, very happy POD's by PAD Outdoor.

VIDEOA little stop-motion with light painting. See what is inside the box...

In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. Such near-infrared techniques used in photography give subjects an exotic, antique look. This is a unique collection of infrared trees.

Almost all of his works remind of architectural constructions, but the latest piece of the German designer Jens Otten is definitely the most delicate one.

Spanish architects Studio M converted the old Conde Lumieres pharmacy into a brand new drugstore, plenty of light and space.

At the Arnhem Fashion Biennale the London based Dutch designer Henny van Nistelrooy presents this beautiful chandelier made of light reflecting discs that conventionally are used in photography...

“Digital Confetti” is a one night interactive installation that uses interactive maracas, a weather balloon, and projection to transforms the mid-century modern interior of the Four Seasons Pool Room with an interactive sound and light installation for the Metropolitan Home Magazine’s “Design 100″ party.

In Melbourne this week? vist the LightScraper, an interactive light and sound sculpture created by ENESS.

Mark Braun's Pyrus’ is a mono material pendant light, made of grey and white paper – therefore the shade is completely biodegradable.

Tre lamp is a three-legged floor lamp made of metal. Turnable lamp is perfect for reading light, peeking over the reader’s shoulder. Turnable light shade creates light upward or downward.

Designer Paul Smith designed new rubbish bins for the city of London. The ears of the rabbit light up when you throw something into the bin. Pretty nice idea!

ROSS LOVEGROVE teams up with Artemide to produce the Cosmic series of digital light fixtures--the metallic, tessellated skin is like that of a large, amorphous sea creature.

Photos of Vivid Sydney, with art projected on the Opera House and light-related artworks around the city.

Media architecture collective Urban Alliance + Studio Klink have recently finished the Moodwall: a 24 meter long interactive light installation in Amsterdam.

Daisuke Hiraiwa's ethereal recycled spoon chandelier. Each found spoon has been punctured with hundreds of tiny pinholes to create a striking interplay with light.

FEATUREDIlluminant - Kristin Birna Bjarnadottir ~ saw these in person at NY Design Week and they are even cooler in person ~ and definitely the most innovative use of reflective materials yet! The light source is not even inside the light!

Leo Villareal is a very talented Light artist born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1967. Lives and works in New York City.

A brand new light by Peter Jensen at Moss in NY. Between an orange peel and a futuristic space ship.

Burning Freedom is a concept car by Bora Kim. It is inspired by the light that enters a room through an open door.

The Art Institute of Chicago's new Modern Wing succeeds most of all in getting out of the way so that visitors can look at the art.

"Walk around the place du Molard in Geneva, Switzerland, and you’ll be walking on stars. Two thousand LED light sources equipped with 10 000 white Power TOPLEDs have been set into the paving stones." Sounds stunning...

Cahill Center for Astrophysics by Morphosis, force lines track the movement of form and light through the building’s faceted façade, the central vertical volume, and the stitches.

carbon fiber chair by shigeru ban - "I wanted to make a chair that is even lighter than the gio ponti's superleggera - a chair so light that a child could pick it up with just his little finger."

Cool interiors on these contemporary house in Ijburg designed by dutch architects Gabriels Webb. I like the transparency achieved through the big openings, and how they bring light to the interior.

Swell is the beautiful lamp designed by Paul Cocksedge, a glass bubble filled with a coloured liquid that reacts to the heat of the light bulb.

The Light Guitar Rock video is a video that uses the Light Paint technique. Every frame is a single image that has been colorized with Photoshop.

Puma uses light-injection in its L.I.F.T ad campaign with photography by Nadav Kander.

The relation between a still and a mobile volume represents "the passage between two worlds, between the known and the unknown, the light and the darkness..."

Light of the sun and moonlight play in the LOVE HOUSE, and rain and wind visit LOVE HOUSE, and birds and insects visit a tree and a fruit tree of LOVE HOUSE. The situations differ every day...

The Swiss Border Cantons shed light collectively on borders and limits from a social, psychological, cultural and ethnic perspective.

Spanish architects Vaillo + Irigaray designed the Lounge MS in Navarra. The skin uses recycled plastic tubes that resemble reeds, giving a dynamic looks on the outside, while filtering the light on the inside.

FEATURED511 Tactical Light For Life ~ SUPER bright 3 LED flash light with NO BATTERIES! and Recharges in 90 SECONDS! Also has strobe to "signal others or disorient a perp" ~ check out the video!

The collection was born to integrate a light on a side table. Hence, arose the concept of America. Created to be positioned between two armchairs or beside a sofa because of its side table function. -Jamie Hayon

Emma Tempest does a great job utilizing light and color to create sensual shots that have a cinematic feel.

Another new project from tunertricks - a miniature backyard pool set in a skateboard deck complete with working pool light, diving board, drain, etc. For an art show in Atlanta this weekend.

The transparent platelets have been planned in order to uniform diffuse the punctual bundle of the LED, that they represent between the more fascinating sources than light of the future, designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

Reflectors designed by a photographer to take the pain out of adjusting fill light and accent lighting to tabletop products. LightRIGHT® reflectors are adjusted via sliding magnets. Each reflector is adjustable from silver to white.

Philips has produced a new piece of OLED technology. Small panels that can instantly transform from illuminated to transparent.

Kwanghoo Lee call this piece Stroke Full Light and is a lamp made of electrical cable.

The physical involvement of the spectator finds a resonance in the ephemeral existence of light particles.

Notes from a Petri Dish is an introduction to cell swarming by Roman Popat, published in Working Title for the Milan Design Festival. Photographed at intervals over a period of 36 hours. This strain is genetically engineered to produce light.

Designed by Melbourne-based Alex Earl, the lionfish pendant light is a unique shade emitting a luminescence from the intriguing form of a deep-sea creature.

Lacrime del Pesacatore for Euroluce 2009 by Ingo Maurer at Milan Design Week ~ Enclosed in a velvet display case of cobalt blue as a jewel, shines spreading a magic light.

Ingo Maurer's EURO CONDOMS! "...as part of milan design week 2009 the german designer ingo maurer unveiled 'the euro condom' created in response to new EU guidelines that will see frosted light bulbs banned."

Just like last year Pieke Bergmans had filled his space with products under the name of Design Virus, and this time it was light bulbs with strange, soft and beautiful shapes.

san paolo church by massimiliano fuksas with a concrete cube suspended inside the structure giving natural light

luca trazzi: t-energy ~ part of the interni design energies event. the tower includes the modular light panels manufactured by martini which light up using
the solar panels produced by pramac.

Despite being on a small urban plot, the House of Depth in Shiga, Japan, manages to create open spaces at the interior, spaces for silence and light. By FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

Richard Hutten will be exibiting a series of glass dildos at the Red light design event in Milano this week! The series of glass dildo´s have champagne glass stem, and are made to celebrate special moments.

Design Liam Hopkins and Richard Sweeney - A computer-generated form was converted into modular sections, which were cut from 1.5mm birch plywood using a CNC routing machine. Limited edition of three.

Cosmic Leaf by British designer Ross Lovegrove, it features its fluid form illuminated from a light source from top to the meshed skin.

Graft architects designed an art cloud for the Royal Palace at Scholssplatz in Berlin. This temporary light structure houses exhibition space, floating and resting above the topography of soft mounds.

Another cool way to dress up that boring light bulb. Petal light shade, designed by Vanilla Design Store from New Zealand.

The intervention “Raining Light bombs” was carried out using plastic bags into which we put our lights that we shaped so that they hat a threatening appearance.

Brian Matthew Hart handles any light sources like a Jedi, doing really works of art with its extrapolations. The Force is strong with him.

Crochet Light is a personal editions from Marcel Wanders like the rest of his Crochet's edition...

HDR processing merged with an algorithm which only allows UV and Infrared light into the image.

FIELD Flourescent Bulbs Powered By Richard Box.
A Field of Light Sabers, Powered By Ambient Electricity.

The Funghi collection by Jamie Hayon for Metalarte has been conceived in earthy colors and made of ceramic to recreate subtle forest light and texture.

Panama House...'The elegant economy to Kogan’s use of volumes translates to a very real sense of freedom. The result is airy, light-washed spaces that seem barely tethered to the ground, an apt escapist image perhaps for São Paulo’s congested megapolis.'

Finally, a lamp that generate flashes of ideas. Design by Holger Volk, this HOLON lamp is a smart design using only an ordinary 15 Watt light bulb with an outline around signaled a bright idea.

Los Angeles based glass artist Alison Berger has added a new light fixture to her collection, the Mirrored Pendant Chandelier.

Peter Waltz's house-shaped light fixtures put a whole new spin on the saying "leaving the light on at home."

The softness of the light reminiscent of a traditional Japanese portable paper lantern (Bon-bori) is enhanced by the light coming through the double and triple shelters, and brings to mind the image of light depicted in Junichiro Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows” (In-ei Raisan).

Light Art offers architects and designers iconic light sculptures to create arresting show-pieces for any space. Using 3form's signature Varia Ecoresin material to create the ethereal designs, Light Art will transform your next project.

speaking about pushing it to the next level, here is Julien Breton's work aka Kaalam , it's all about light and calligraphy. WOW

Made from paper(vulcanized fibre t2.4) and designed by Ryuji Nakamura, a Tokyo-based architect. Hechima 4 looks light + airy for a chair yet it comfortably strong...

Swedish Malmberg got a nice and light bottles for their line of bottled water. The design was made by the company itself together with their bottle manufacturer.

Nur Meta light by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide. Utilizing Artemide's patented Metamorfosi technology, users can customize ambient light color to create a specific mood by adjusting the intensity of the dichroic RGB filters via remote control.

Black + White is a beautiful video from the Raveonettes, directed by Chris Do. uses light and shadow to convey the opposing themes of the piece, including love/hate, life/death, young/old...well...Watch it!

great idea!!, tea bag lights! just dip it on water and light up any place, designed by wonsik chae

New York visual artist Reed Barrow works with light, smoke, video, installation, lights and magic.

Light up your lungs by Courage Índia.
A leading NGO, to come up with a unique device that vividly demonstrated the harm smoking can do.

Candles are out - LEDs are in! This Matte Porcelain campfire set features removable logs and a flickering LED tea light. Add atmosphere to any get together...

Bedside Lamp by Matteo Cibic. The light turns red when the dildo is retrieved from it.

Design Group "Animal Farm" is introducing a wooden light fitting, made to only fit with energy saving bulbs.

VIDEOReally beautiful new ad campaign from Frito Lay Chips and Dip called Made For Each Other. Five different animation styles, but the little light bulb is by far the coolest.

An exquisite ceiling light inspired by the war room in Dr. Strangelove.

DO Connect 4 at Cardiff Central Station.
Animation of light and colour follows trains, cars, and pedestrians over The River Taff in central Cardiff.

Created by korean designer Jongho Lee, the "Invisible Streetlight" concept is a public light that can be perfectly integrated in the natural landscape.

Tea V is a tea cup handmade by Jana Wallser out of porcelain. If you come closer and lift the cup and light shines through the bottom, you can see a picture of a woman in a television, who is drinking tea.

De-light is a handy carrying LED projector made to enhance one's mobile entertainment experience.

Designed by Sushir J K, Industrial Design Graduate student at Pratt Institute, Ny. Bent, as the name suggests is a bent tube of light that can be used as a wall unit, central accent light or a floor lamp.

The new Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland has one of the most astonishing interiors, a fest of natural light entering through the wooden skin.

A sexy rice cooker? Sang Lee creates perhaps the first and only one, with a light-up touchpad and sleek lines. It's practically sculpture for the kitchen.

Exlusive tablelamp in black glossy lacquer and
Black/gold lampshade. Lampfot is made in baroque style, the lamp gives a very worm soft light. Mr Di is the large table lamp, and then you can also buy Mrs Di that is the smaller version.

The Environmental Traffic Light is an open-source projects that aims to familiarize people with the environments they inhabit.

The Birds + Bees table lamp by Lindsey Adelman. Hand-blown in Brooklyn and finished with a cloth cord. Two Edison double loop light bulbs included! Measures 13" in diameter.

Eneloop Solar Light from Sanyo is fully charged by the sun and outputs lights in both arranged LEDs for rooms/emergencies and as a beam for flashlight use. On top of that, the USB port charges your phone/gadgets, all using clean solar energy!

At the end of the Rainbow Serpent Festival 09 stands the LightScraper, a giant interactive light and sound installation created by ENESS. Located in outback Victoria, Australia.

Closure: a very interesting, innovative Flash game that plays with light & shadows.

Dima Loginoff has made a serie of lamp that all play with a curly effect of something draping around the light, making it looks like someone have cut out slices of the lamp shade.

Swiss architect Wespi de Meuron designed this house as two stones buried on a hill. Selected points bring natural light to the interior, while the rooftop holds a pool with a perfect view over the lake and the mountains.

SmartSwitch embeds intelligence into a traditionally simplistic device – the ordinary household light switch. With SmartSwitch, the mindless activity of flipping a switch becomes an informed decision.

Equipped with a network connection and a brake pad, the switch provides its user with tactile feedback about the amount of energy being used either within their household or by the electrical grid as a whole.

A photo series of London’s remaining professional darkrooms, by Richard Nicholson.

As part of the Lyon Light Festival in France, artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino transformed an phone booth into this amazing aquarium.

Another beautiful example of portuguese architecture: white volumes under the light, over a natural landscape. By ARX Architects.

A new building for music performance in the waterfront of Malaga, Spain. Designed by Federico Soriano + Agustin Benedicto, it will feature a skin made out of glass tiles to achieve a vibrant light effect similar to the waving sea.

Gilles Eichenbaum, also known as Garbage, is a Paris based designer and artist who melds antique household items into captivating light fixtures

The A'KIMONO LS2.0 Concept is a design study of a futuristic vehicle inspired by light sculptures which uses an artificial lighting system to make the exterior body surfaces visible at night. Designed by Teodor Kyuchukov.

Beacon, a kinetic light installation

"Lost in Paris" is an amazing skin for a laboratory in Paris, featuring an hydrophonic wall system and 300 blown glass containers that add light refraction to the interior.

LVHRD's (CLL)PHN-LCKN '09 is Jan 26th in NYC. These mysterious documents shed some light on what to expect.

Religious buildings have been historically a sandbox for innovative architecture. The Prayer Chapel in Phoenix by debartolo architects is a good example of this, with a very delicate arrangement of materials and volumes for a fest of light.

Music video for South Central made using light graffiti and just over 2900 long exposure photographs. Directed by Steve Glashier

Light painters MRI have perfected the art of long exposures. Their flickr account is full of light painted gorgeousness.

Cool concept gives cyclists a bike lane no matter where they are.

How many resources and pollutants does it take to make a light bulb? A new WWF ad produced with miniatures.

amazing new transparent concrete, by mexican students joel sosa and sergio omar galván, 30% lighter than normal concrete and lets through 80% of the light.

The Flight 815 lamp is designed by Cedric Ragot. The lamps clever design resembles that of a ‘light painting‘, and is named after the flight in Lost...

Eneloop Kairo Hand Warmer series is light, compact, simple, and still powerful enough to keep you warm for hours.

DariusTwin just created a Light Painting tutorial for Carmine Magazine. Learn how to recreate this super simple and stunning effect.

We just ordered the awesomest vintage Glögg bowl and cup set for our future batches of NOTGLÖGG! (or cider, or punch, or....) You can even put a tea light under to keep it warm!

Hangbag, metallic, light and decorative heart shaped hanger for bags and all hangable objects - by Ototo [Editor's Note - genius! bag hook + keychain!]

an ode to the classical light bulbs... (pdf link)

Torch is a light bulb inspired flashlight from plusminuszero.

Photographed by Stacey Evans, a detail from Harriet Arthur's "The Waiting Room," one of the light-centered art installations included in the Dec. 12 exhibition, "Let There Be Light," celebrating the upcoming winter solstice.

Commercials for Bud Light's Drinkability campaign. The main character "draws" in mid-air using animation created by 23D Films.

This congress facility in Holland has been designed to offer flexibility for clients who are looking for a non-conformist meeting space and is a cacophony of light, space and interactive projections.

The Light Modulator by Studio Lazerian - not sure I'm ultimately convinced by the final bat-inspired shape of the shade, but I do love the modular components that make up the fixtures, and the delicate connections between each piece.

Normally I would say water and electricity shouldn't mix, but Stefano Pistilli's Mahoo light is powered by the conduction of water, which completes the electrical circuit. Don't try this at home!

The Bolt Light Bulb by Sungmin Hong. From the name 'Its a bolt + bulb + light, a light bulb that is "bolt" shaped'

Yet again the guys from Uredd have managed to blow me away with their creative minds. This time it was Gaute and Ståle and mr Aasmund who went out in the streets of Trondheim to play with light.

The new Granada Science Park by spanish architects Ferrater + Jimenez Brasa features amazing interior spaces, flooded with natural light. The exterior is a complex topography that blends with the surrounding mountains.

Yuichi Higashionna's fluorescent light sculptures.

Limited edition print by Nathalie Rykie for Coca-Cola Light

Nomad Light Molecule, designed by Maarten De Ceulaer. Another unique light design with the molecule atom shape where the light position is fully configurable - yes, you can change the shape of the light according to your taste.

‘In Vestimentis Ursum‘ is a collection of stuffed animals that sing, dance, light up, or talk back. Matt Kirkland disassembled them to show the robot inside the toys.

Scosche has released a new alternative for charging both the iPhone and the iPod, it includes a built in light that illuminates in the dark, so you can always find your phone.

Designed by German artist Steffen Bauer for Crescent lighting, the Laluna fiber optic lamp connects to a bright halogen (which changes color with a turning color wheel) or color-changing LED light source.

FEATUREDRubyy ~ blood orange energy drink in the gorgeous matte black aluminum bottle... that glows under the black light, AND tastes amazingly un-energy-drink-like... also a perfect addition to drinks!

yet another great product from the mind of jamie hayon: this time, a little disco lighting via 2008. swarovski sparkle shady: unlimited possibilities for installation, crystals allow for an amazing game of light, on or off.

Do you need more light, do you need a little less, well you decide with the un-zip light from Turkish industrial designer Selcuk Saraloglu.

‘tis the season for fun and crafty holiday ideas. make your own light-up ornaments.

Love this print by Jon McNaught of a monster walking through a town - I like that the lit houses are opposite what I expect them to be - rather than a trail of destruction the monster leaves a trail of light.

Acoustica's QuietWeave is light, strong, thin and most importantly, cuts noise. Lets you have a $1000 acoustic door for a mere $5. Made from organic material. Brilliant!

FEATUREDGift Guide! This one is all about lighting! There's something so magical about the way light can transform a room/environment, and here are some that make great gifts! Also special Solar section!

At the Harbin Ice & Snow World, everything is sculpted from ice. Neon lights add an epic light-bright surrealism to the festival.

Bunsen Burner Light ~ cute concept! by Damian Barton