Tag: Lighting - Page 9
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Furniture Companies See The Forest For The Trees (Photos)
Timeless responsible furniture design on show at Qubique Berlin this week
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Steampunk Style Lamps Made From Plumbing Pipes and Beer Bottles
These unique lamps are made with some rather interesting materials, and are sure to get the attention of guests!
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6 Prototypes With Interesting Uses For Bamboo and Silk From Buenos Aires
Cool chaise longe, rocking chair, lamp, massage accessory and jewelry from bamboo and artisan silk by Argentine designers.
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Sugar or Glass? When Gastronomy Meets Glass, Positive Ideas Crystallise. (Photos)
Bored of conferences? Looking for inspiration? Then oh!BCN might just be your thing. It is a new kind of happening based around the unusual association of glass
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The Week in Pictures: New Zealand Oil Spill, How Steve Jobs Changed the World, and More (Slideshow)
Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.
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Permaculture Video Legend to Trash CFLs. Needs Your Help. (Video)
I've confessed before that I am a little obsessed with Paul Wheaton's permaculture-themed YouTube channel. From rocket mass stoves through tiny houses to how to kill a chicken, he covers the kind of DIY,
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Cool Lamps Made Of Coffee Cups, Spoons & Filters By Christian DuCharme
On display at New York City's Lafayette Espresso Bar + Market is a lighting design that coffee junkies will no doubt appreciate. Created by Swiss designer Christian DuCharme, this custom-made lamp was made with
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Hanging Mini-Greenhouse Also Doubles As Pendant Lamp
Short on space for growing herbs? Well, this graceful pendant lamp -- which doubles as a mini-greenhouse -- could be one way to add more luscious greenery to one's space and diet.
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The Week in Pictures: Living Map of Central Park, a Bike with Metal Tires, and More (Slideshow)
We've featured a lot of vertical gardens on TreeHugger, many of them superb but none quite like this one, grown as a living map of New York's Central Park.
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5 Little Designs That Make Life Nicer, Fresh from the Valencia Design Week (Photos)
Different themes seemed to be embedded in the Valencia Design Week. After spotting 6 great wooden flat-pack designs, I also found these little
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6 Great Wooden Flat-Pack Designs Spotted at Valencia Design Week (Photos)
At the Valencia Design Week I spotted quite a few new flat-pack ideas, of which a surprising number were made of wood. My favourite are Mr Simon's chairs that fold away into a table to save
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LZF Lamps, A Charming Visit To Their Factory
For the second year around I have been invited to FEED (the international design media and blogger meeting) by the organisers of the Valencia Design Week. It kicked of yesterday with a rather warm welcoming; a picnic-dinner in the lush garden of the
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FZLed PAR38 22-Watt LED Spotlight (Product Review)
Photo: Michael Graham RichardThe Future of Lighting, TodayFor technical reasons previously mentioned (Haitz's Law), LED technology is extremely likely to become the dominant lighting technology over the next few years. But like all still-maturing
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MyShelter Foundation: Lighting Up Homes With A Plastic Bottle and Some Chlorine
If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people
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Turn LED Strings Into Ornamental Pendant
Photo used with permission Easy Seasonal DIY Project We're rapidly approaching the time of the year when the days are getting significantly shorter - at least in the Northern hemisphere - and risks increase for seasonal depression, from a little bit of
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Haitz's Law: Moore's Law for LED Lightbulbs
Photo: Michael Graham RichardLEDs: Almost ThereJust like Moore's Law has been predicting improvements in the semiconductors used to make computer processors for decades, Haitz's Law (see below) predicts an exponential improvement in the semiconductors
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Most Popular Articles of August: 13-Year-Old's Science Project, 121-Year-Old's All-Natural Diet, and More (Slideshow)
The long Labor Day weekend (for our American readers, at least) is a bittersweet moment; the extra day off also signals the end of summer. In honor of another season gone, here are the 10 most popular stories we covered in August,
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Roots Architecture at WOMAD 2011 - A Game of Structural Consequences (Video)
What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD
