Lighting in Design Q4 2018

I nternational N ews

Anglepoise goes small with the 90 Mini Mini Desk Lamp

London design studio Haberdashery has created floor and table lamps with light sources that change colour as they move up and down, to resemble the rising and setting sun. Called Dawn to Dusk, the lamps each feature a flat disc-shaped light source, which slides up and down a central black stem that is mounted on a weighty tri- angular base. As the disc-shaped light source rises up the stem, the colour of the light transitions from a low-intensity red hue, through orange and warm white, to a bright white light designed to emulate the midday sun. The lamps are controlled by custom- designed mechanical and electrical components that are integrated into the stand and head of the lamp. The only off- the-shelf component used in the design is the wall-mounted driver. Haberdashery's colour- changing Dawn to Dusk lamps rise and set like the sun

British lighting brand Anglepoise ® has been creating its iconic desk lamp since the 1930s and in that time it’s gone big and unveiled special designer editions. Never resting on its laurels, the company continues to up its game with new designs and by re-imagining older ones, like its latest release where it’s gone tiny with its bestselling Model 90 lamp. The 90 Mini Mini lamp offers all the features that make Anglepoise lamps so coveted, all the while shrinking it to its new tiny form. The 90 Mini Mini stands at half the size of a standard desk lamp making

it work in just about any spot you need extra light. Despite its size, it still packs a punch with a long- life, dimmable, low- energy LED module that’s integrated into the shade and will last for up to 20 000 hours of use.

A simple switch is replaced by a line of dominoes in this unusual lamp by London design duo Glithero, meaning a chain reaction is required to turn it on. The Domino Light is accompanied by dozens of conductive copper dominoes. You can arrange the dominoes in any configuration you like, as long as the first and last domino meet up with the copper strips embedded into each side of the lamp base. These copper strips are referred to as the ‘rocker’ domino, the first domino that starts the rally, and the ‘receiver’ domino, the last one in the chain. After the rocker is tipped, a domino ef- fect ensues.The electrical circuit is completed once all the dominoes have fallen, with the last one landing on the receiver at the end. "With so much technology in our lives it is easy to take for granted that even simple things, such as turning on a light, are made possible by the physical properties of materials," said Glithero co-founder Tim Simpson. Glithero creates lamps you switch on by toppling a row of dominoes

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