12 Unusual And Creative Lamp Designs

Lamps, just like clocks, are a necessity that are mostly overlooked. It is a part of your everyday life and you probably don't even notice its importance till its gone. This list of unusual and creative lamp designs include the cool and the odd, and they will not be overlooked for sure!

(If you'd like to know more about any of the following lamps, just click on its name or picture to go to its page.)

1. Milk Gone Bad Lamp:

A collection of 8 different lamps shaped like milk cartons. When it’s off, it looks like a plain milk carton but as soon as you turn it on nice colorful illustrations show up.

2. Coin Lamp:

The light can be turned on by a coin operated switch. Produced based on the concept of values and reward, this lamp was designed to highlight awareness of consumption.

3. Wet Lamp:

We have always been told, water and electricity don’t go together, unless you’re up to no good. This lamp though mixes the two together, creating a very intriguing piece. Made of a glass lamp with water-submerged light bulb at its center. The lamp turns on when the silver rod is slid into the water, the light becomes brighter as the rod submerges more. Want to see it in action? check out the video here.

4. Lamp Lamp:

It’s a lamp in the shape of… a lamp! The idea of this lamp comes from the fact that light bulbs, important as they are, they’re mostly forgotten. Our focus is always on the surrounding of the light bulb, the shade of the lamp, the looks and size of it… till the light bulb breaks. With this lamp, a commodity product such as the light bulb gets the attention it deserves. “LampLamp injects life and values into the commodity products we know and creates an affinity to a normally distant product.”

5. Flos Gun Lamp:

“the gun collection by philippe starck can be interpreted in numerous ways, all of which we will leave to the end user or passionate starckie. whatever the case, the end result was finished to the point of superlative conceptual unity, right down to the black fabric cord and in line dimmer and silk screened internal finish on the lamps.”

6. Twist Together Lamp: [previously featured]

Colorful, playful and fun! These lamps can be shaped in anyway you want them to be. They come in four blocks that allow you to create your own light installation. And you can buy additional blocks and connect them together, so it's pretty much like Lego. Check out this post from Inhabitots on these lamps.

7. Titanic Lamp:

The name says it all ! Sliced diagonally through the length, creating a floating water submerged appearance.

8. The Gaffer’s Bounce Lamp:

This lamp works a bit differently that others. It includes a projector that projects a 20 watts floodlight onto a polycarbonate reflector that redirects soft light.

9. Book of Light:

A pop up book that pops out a lamp, now this is truly creative! The book is 16”x 12” so it’s quite big, open it up and a lamp will pop out and light up. How cool is that?!

10. Glasklasen (The Glass Cluster):

A chandelier that is also a repository for drinking glasses. You can store the same or different kind of glasses. Clear or colored. Be as creative as you’d like! The glasses aren’t there for decorative purposes only, they’re meant to be used. This chandelier would be perfect for someone who does a lot of entertaining, or in a bar.

11. Block Lamp:

A bulb that’s encased in two hand cast glass block which can only be placed on a tabletop or on the floor.

12. Take Lamp:

The Take lamp is put together by joining two symmetrical parts: two flat rectangular and two dimensional plates which each would make half a lamp. The internal pleating of the lampshade creates a beautiful play of light.

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