Neue Werkstatt
"A Switzerland-based lighting design company with a very distinct, minimal style."
via swissmiss — Lighting

Artemide Sale
Artemide is offering a 40% discount on selected lamps to future entrepreneurs until the end of April. Sounds like a fabulous idea to us!
via Land+Living — Lighting

Caravaggio Pendant Lamps
These pendants are so subtle, you'd probably just click right past them... but don't. Quiet yet beautifully executed fixtures by Danish designer Cecilie Manz.
via Josh Spear — Lighting

Propellor Design's Pendant Lighting
Digging these light fixtures by Vancouver based Propellor Design.
via Treehugger — Lighting

Subway Sunlight Project
An award winning design by Parsons student Caroline Pham uses fiber optics to channel sunlight into subway platforms, creating a work of naturally lit public art.
via Inhabitat — Lighting

Blow Table Lamp
Here's what happens when you take an "unremarkable" table lamp and repackage it inside a glass bubble and add a magnet to control it.
via Luxist — Lighting

Frankie Goes Fluorescent
Not a big fan of the look of compact fluorescent bulbs? Relax! Frankie's got some light fixtures composed entirely of sustainable and recycled materials and are designed specifically for compact fluorescent bulbs.
via Apartment Therapy — Lighting

Cumulus
Designer Steven Haulenbeek has designed a scalable lighting series using photographer’s translucent shoot-through umbrellas. Nicely done.
via design*sponge — Lighting

Woven Fiberoptic Chandeliers
Droog designers Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe created these "Lace Bobbin Lamps" which provide light (and presence) without the use of light bulbs.
via Inhabitat — Lighting

Tube
Belgium lighting design Alain Monnens (Idam) rethinks the fluorescent light with this hanging fixture.
via Reluct — Lighting

Float Light
A candle holder designed by Roger Arquer submerges the candle in water, so the candle floats up towards the flame as it burns and automaticaly extinguishes when no wax is left.
via Core77 — Lighting

Recycled Traffic Light Pendant Lamp
Pendants made from obsolete colored glass traffic light lenses.
via greatgreengoods — Lighting

Solar Lampion
While I like the idea of solar recharging lights, I find that the form is not usually up to the standard of the function. But this faceted lantern by Damian O'Sullivan thankfully breaks the mold.
via Moco Loco — Lighting

Frank Gehry Deconstruction Cloud Hanging Lamp
Have you seen the Simpsons episode where Frank Gehry crumples up the letter from Marge and throws it on the ground and is then inspired?
via productdose — Lighting

LitraCube concrete lamp
A light fixture called LitraCube utilizes the much talked about light transmitting concrete. 595 Euros... yeowsa.
via Core77 — Lighting

Push-Pin Lamp
Is this the "Holy Grail of office decor"? HotGadget seems to think so. The Push-Pin Lamp features push-pin shades that are available in 4 different colors and includes a cork bottom.
via Gizmodo — Lighting

Sunlight Tubes
Scientists are developing a system to transmit sunlight via optical fibers into buildings.
via Transstudio — Lighting

LED-Flex
An LED substitute for neon; versatile, flexible, extra bright, low energy use.
via Transstudio — Lighting

Cassette tape lamps
Lamps made from audiocassette tapes... rad.
via Apartment Therapy — Lighting

Red Light District Lamp
"Old materials and new technology come together in a new lamp series called the Red Light District by Brooklyn based designer Nicholas Furrow."
via Moco Loco — Lighting