Minimalist desk lamp is a flexible and functional space saver

For people who spend hours (or more than half the day) at their desk, having proper lighting is a major factor for productivity. If the room you’re in doesn’t always have the best lighting, having a proper desk lamp is also important. Sometimes though, lamps can be bulky and take up precious desk space. This concept for a desk lamp solves that problem and also brings a bit of sustainability to the table, so to speak.

Designers: Simone Guglielmetti, Tommasso Rossi, Andrea Tomaciello, Nikia Kirilovs

The Tars desk lamp is a minimalist concept that shouldn’t take up real estate in your work space. That’s because it’s designed to be clipped to the edge of the table so you’ll have space for all the important things you need to do on your desk. The design also makes it more flexible and gives it a wide range of movement so you can easily place the light where you actually need it. You can twist it around and probably also stretch it to a certain extent so it can reach the parts of your space that needs lighting.

Even the controls are pretty minimalist but also easy to use. The interface is on the bottom of the head so it’s easy to reach wherever you’ve placed the light. The circle button is to turn it on and off while the other button is to adjust the light temperature. They’re both edgeless and can be seen from both sides. The designers also said that it’s easy to assemble and disassemble, also keeping in mind the repairability when choosing the materials to create the lamp.

They were able to do a 3D printed model to make sure that all the functionalities that they designed were working. I for one would want to have a desk lamp like this since one of my problems in my home desk is space. As they say on the internet, “shut up and take my money” if this ever goes into production.

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Tactile lamp and timer concept fosters focus and mindfulness in work-from-home arrangements

Although travel and work restrictions have mostly been lifted already, the office world is really no longer the same. It has now been proven that the work your bosses claim can only be done in the office can actually be done at home or even in a coffee shop, and so more flexible remote working conditions have started to take root in many companies. At the same time, however, the pandemic also proved that working from home is far from being the idyllic scenario that many people dreamed of in the past. Maintaining focus and motivation isn’t exactly easy to achieve, but this curious desk lamp helps develop that sense of balance between work and personal life using a very visual and tactile experience.

Designers: Pinar Aydogdu, Naren Yildirim, Nurbanu Kocak

One of the oldest productivity tricks in the book involves focusing on a single task for a certain amount of time and then taking a brief break before repeating the cycle all over again. Ironic as might sound, this technique, most popular by its “Pomodoro technique” moniker, actually helps you focus during those moments you are working. It also elevates rest to its proper place in our hectic lives, presenting it not as wasted time but as an important factor in boosting productivity.

You’d probably never think that a decorative desk lamp would be the tool to encourage that productivity practice, but the Fall concept design is exactly that. At its most basic, it is composed of a conical lamp standing on a circular base that has a rippling surface, almost like the ripples in a pond. The soft diffused light that the lamp gives isn’t going to be enough to illuminate your work, but that’s not the purpose of the lamp anyway. It works in conjunction with eight balls that magnetically attach to the top of the cone, turning this productivity practice into something like a game.

Each ball represents one hour of working time, so their total makes up an entire day’s work. At the start of your work day, you stick those balls at the top, and after an hour has passed, one ball falls down on the base. Because of the undulating surface of the base, the balls won’t roll off, but you can remove each ball as you please. In fact, you remove the ball from the base to signify that you’re taking a break and you put the ball back on the base when you’re back. If you don’t bring back the ball within a set amount of time, usually ten minutes, the lamp’s light will turn red to nudge you back to your work.

Fall is an interesting idea that encourages physical involvement in juggling those work hours, making sure you’re more mindful of your time instead of simply glancing at a clock or swiping an alarm away. The lamp itself gives a rather distinctive aesthetic, one that encourages play and interactivity instead of just looking pretty. Admittedly, it’s just a concept and one that will be rather complicated to implement in a real functioning device.

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Minimalist lamp uses simple, linear shapes to create a functional and ambient light source

Lamps are something that you need especially if you’re particular with the working or ambient light at home. I particularly don’t look that much at the design when I’m buying one but more on the practicality or how easy it is to set up and use. But if something can tick all of those boxes and has a minimalist look as a bonus, then it’s something worth looking at. You don’t need elaborate or intricate parts and designs to come up with something pleasant to look at that can also be as multi-functional as possible. As the designer says, “Good design is as little design as possible”.

Designer: Y.S.M. Products and Baptiste Vandaele

The Linear Table Lamp is an upcoming Kickstarter project that aims to bring a simple enough lamp that only needs a few linear planes and a light bulb. It is made up of a steel body with a rectangular base and two planes that face it at a 45 degree angle. This particular angle of the planes brings a light and shadow effect to your lamp so that the light is reflected downwards. The metal surfaces are bent and welded but there are no other redundant elements as it is inspired by the Bauhaus art movement.

The light source itself is a 3000K LED bulb that is dimmable so you can use it either as a desk lamp or an ambient lamp. The color of the bulb is the perfect one that can be functional or cozy and can be controlled through a button attached to the cord. You will be able to adjust the brightness or dimness of the lamp depending on what you need at the moment. The color of the lamp itself is also pretty minimalist but with splashes of bright colors in case that’s what you prefer.

The simple design of the lamp as well as the color options (green, orange, white, gray) makes it appealing as an addition to my sometimes messy desk. The Kickstarter funding project will launch by January next year where people will be able to pre-order it. No price or other funding details have been revealed but it is one that I may actually watch out for if the other details are reasonable.

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This stoneware lamp exudes an artistic yet playful character that livens up any desk

The primary purpose of lamps is to bring us light, but they don’t have to be limited to that task only. This is especially true for fixtures that always stay within our vision, whether they’re hanging from ceilings, stuck to walls, or standing on our desks. Because we tend to always notice things that we always see, these lamps can have a significant effect on our mood and state of mind. A poorly designed lamp, no matter how bright, will end up annoying us, consciously or subconsciously. Conversely, a lamp with a delightful design will brighten not only your space but also your mood, just like these cute yet heavyweight desk lamps that almost make you want to play with them all day long.

Designer: J Schatz

Something doesn’t have to actually be a toy to inspire a playful mood. Bright colors, irregular or curved shapes, and unbalanced or asymmetrical arrangements can already have our minds immediately thinking fun thoughts, perhaps a ball game, a playground set, or toy blocks. The Spot On Desk Lamps have these elements in droves, and they create an almost whimsical atmosphere on any desk it stands on.

There are three distinct parts that make up this rather vibrant lamp, all simple shapes and all derived from a circle. The base is a thick disc and the stem that stands off-center is a simple cylinder. The lamp shade itself is a sphere that seems to stick precariously near the top of the stand. While many lamp designs aim for symmetry and a visual of harmony, the Spot On evokes a sense of action and dynamism, as if the lamp is ready to fall and roll at any moment. Of course, it’s all just in our minds, because the desk lamp is as steady and stable as a piece of stone.

The pieces are indeed made of stoneware, individually handcrafted, in fact. Each piece has a different color from the rest, and there are eight color combinations in total. Although different, the colors still produce a certain beauty and harmony, painting a character that is lively but not discordant. There’s an almost Bauhaus-like theme here as well, with the use of opposite or asymmetrical shapes and colors. Suffice it to say, it’s an attractive piece, no matter which way you look at it.

Of course, a desk lamp is not just a piece of decoration, and the Spot On lamp’s 5W LED bulb makes sure of that. It delivers the same brightness as a 60W standard bulb but at a fraction of the energy consumption. This bulb, along with the structural parts that keep the lamp pieces together, is invisible to the viewer who only sees the lamp itself and its cord. It’s a design that reaches a degree of simplicity and minimalism without looking drab or mundane. It’s definitely spot on, pun totally intended, for a lamp that can light up not just your desk but also your life.

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This wooden lamp adds a touch of retro minimalism to illuminate any modern space

It’s always useful to have a place to charge our devices near our beds and couches so we can read the news or scroll through reels while we rest. Why not hide it behind many functions? The Woodo Table Lamp is an engaging design that flawlessly combines form and function. This magnificent lamp is a monument to its designer’s creativity and skill, attracting spectators with its unique blend of natural wood beauty and modern lighting technology, as well as its multifunctional qualities of holding your phones.

Designer: Mahmoud Mahroos

The lamp is unique by its remarkable use of natural wood elements, which add warmth and organic elegance to any space. The designer has skillfully shaped the wood to create an elegant and harmonious silhouette. Each lamp is a work of art, showcasing the beauty of the chosen wood species while maintaining a sleek and modern design aesthetic. The lamp’s seamless integration of wood and light creates a captivating visual experience that is both soothing and enchanting.

The Woodo Table Lamp’s soothing and warm illumination is at its heart. The lamp has an integrated LED light source that has been meticulously engineered to provide a warm and pleasant glow. This ambient lighting offers a pleasant ambiance that is ideal for relaxing, reading, or creating a peaceful atmosphere in any room. The warm light highlights the inherent beauty of the wood, emphasizing its grains and textures while bringing a sense of calm to the environment.

The lamp’s wooden base also invites your devices to rest on a debossed soft leather phone holder, allowing you to keep it while it charges. However, the integration of wireless charging would elevate this elegant design.

The Woodo Table Lamp’s adaptable design allows it to smoothly merge into several home designs. Whether on a bedside table, a desk, or a living room sideboard, this lamp complements a wide range of decor styles, from contemporary to Scandinavian or rustic. Because of its understated elegance and timeless appeal, it is a versatile lighting option for any room.

The Woodo Table Lamp promotes sustainability in addition to its visual appeal. The use of natural wood encourages environmental friendliness, and the incorporation of energy-efficient LED technology provides a lower carbon footprint. Individuals may illuminate their environments with a clear conscience by selecting this lamp, knowing they are making a purposeful choice toward a greener future.

The Woodo Table Lamp is a practical lighting solution that captivates with its appearance. The lamp’s compact size provides flexibility and ease, adjusting to various spatial requirements.

The Woodo Table Lamp is a beautiful combination of creativity and functionality. Its exquisite timber design, meticulous craftsmanship, and soft illumination create a naturally beautiful and calm mood. This lamp, as a versatile lighting option, easily complements numerous interior designs, bringing a sense of luxury to any room. The Woodo Table Lamp embodies the future of lighting design with its commitment to sustainability and seamless integration of technology. With this remarkable work of art, you may embrace nature’s magical attraction while also elevating your interior style.

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Enhance your children’s learning experience with BenQ’s child-friendly table lamp

In the realm of interior design, lighting plays a pivotal role in setting the ambiance and creating a captivating atmosphere. The MindDuo 2 table lamp is a wonderful example of modern design brilliance and practicality. This table lamp design, which was expertly crafted with care and innovation, flawlessly combines aesthetic appeal with cutting-edge technology to deliver illumination that transcends the capabilities of standard lighting fixtures.

Designer: Doogdesign. Inc. for BenQ

The union of form and function is demonstrated by the MindDuo 2 table light. It readily compliments a variety of decor styles, from modern to minimalist and everything in between, thanks to its sleek and simple design. Clean lines, graceful curves, and high-quality materials give the lamp a sophisticated appearance that makes it a striking focal point in any area. The MindDuo 2 table lamp provides a touch of elegance to any environment, whether it is positioned on a desk, bedside table, or console in the living room.

The MindDuo 2 table lamp has a number of cutting-edge technologies that improve the lighting experience in addition to its attractive aesthetics. Smart technology in it enables users to easily regulate light’s intensity, color temperature, and even direction. BenQ’s proprietary technology prevents the light source from directly touching the eyes and supports children’s various learning activities. The sensors detect the brightness of the environment and automatically adjust to the optimal illumination level to reduce eye strain. The MindDuo 2 table lamp offers a customized lighting experience, whether you like a bright, chilly light for concentrated work or a warm, pleasant glow for relaxation.

The lamp has two modes supporting 2 kinds of activities the new generation has which are with and without screens. One in which the light illuminates a wide area evenly encourages a person to read a book, draw/sketch, write, etc called the ‘reading mode’. The other one in which the light is bright at both ends and the light in the center is suppressed to reduce reflection on the monitor which makes it suitable for tablet learning, which is the upcoming form of learning.

To appeal to and promote children’s physical connection with the lamp, geometric designs with sharp edges were avoided in order to give it a smooth and attractive appearance. The soft, naturally rounded contour gives off a feeling of familiarity. To provide a visual rhythm, the front UI has been shifted to one side. To give off a modern vibe that isn’t overtly for children, the casing and panel are set in various shades of the same color.

The MindDuo 2 table lamp design not only illuminates spaces with its warm and adjustable lighting but also serves as a testament to the harmonious fusion of aesthetics and functionality. Its sleek and elegant form, coupled with its intuitive customization options elevate the lighting experience to new heights. With a focus on efficient and comfortable learning, this design not only adds beauty to a room but also develops a healthy lifestyle. The MindDuo 2 table lamp design is a testament to the innovative possibilities that arise when technology and design converge, making it a truly captivating addition to any interior space.

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A peaceful desk lamp concept evokes a feeling of Zen with its form and soft light

Lamps come in all shapes and sizes depending on where they’re used. Some are more decorative than others because they are meant more to enhance ambiance rather than provide illumination critical for getting work done. Of course, that doesn’t mean that these utilitarian lighting can’t look good as well, though they also have to be careful in making sure that usability isn’t impacted for the sake of aesthetics. At the same, you don’t need to go overboard either just to make a lamp look pleasing and distinctive. This somewhat minimalist desk lamp, for example, barely has any notable part aside from its lampshade, but it’s precisely because of its simplicity and form that it looks like you were raising a Zen garden on your desk.

Designer: Jang Lee Jun

For some people, desk lamps are an essential piece of equipment to shed light on their work, literally and figuratively, but they also need to avoid getting in the way of your productivity. That’s the primary reason why most desk lamps are simple, minimalist, and sometimes even bare-bones, providing light without distracting you with their appearance or eating up too much of your precious desk space. Fortunately, you just need a bit of creative thinking to make even a simple design more meaningful, like what this bonsai-inspired lamp tries to prove.

The bonsai tree is one of the more popular symbols related to Zen Buddhism, meditation, and calmness. The real tree takes a lot of patience to grow and trim, but simply seeing one is enough to give our minds peaceful thoughts. Not everyone can afford to take care of the real thing, though, so the Bonsai Desk Lamp offers something similar through its shape. The flat conical lampshade held up by thin metal rods is reminiscent of those bonsai trees, especially the Korean pine tree used for these decorative plants. It may not look like a real bonsai tree with multiple branches, but it could still call to mind those lush, green plants that our brains immediately associate with a state of Zen.

The lamp has one other unique feature that makes it more peaceful than most desk lamps. Instead of shining its light directly, it bounces it off the bottom of the lampshade. This creates a diffusing effect that generates a softer light without diminishing the lamp’s utility. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem possible to move the lamp head around to change its direction, limiting its movement to raising and lowering the arm.

If there’s one worrying thing about the bonsai desk lamp’s design is that it seems to be a bit unbalanced, with the lampshade carrying the visual weight of the object. It might not actually be lopsided, but even the impression of imbalance could make people worry that the lamp will topple over at the slightest nudge, nullifying the effect of whatever feelings of calm and peace the design is supposed to evoke.

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This wormhole-inspired table lamp design makes a great addition to the interiors of every space enthusiast

Time travel, multiverse, and wormholes have been in the pop culture consciousness for the past years because of sci-fi movies, series, and books. Of course it also crosses over to other things like product concepts and design as people have become fascinated with the concept of other worlds and other times. Not only does it cause our imaginations to run wild but it also brings about some deep thinking about life and the universe. So if you have something beside you that is inspired by the idea of wormholes, it should provide not just aesthetics but also meditative thoughts.

Designer: Will Gibbons

This concept for a table lamp was inspired by the Einstein-Rosen Bridge and wormholes. The Wormhole-Modern Side Lamp uses the scientific illustrations of this idea and so the lamp is a representation of this “shortcut” in the spacetime continuum. From the lamp itself to the wire attached to it, the designer was able to create elements that support the theory and interpreted it as a transport mechanism for light, just like it’s used as a metaphor or a literal concept in sci-fi movies.

Even if you’re not familiar with wormholes and the ideas associated with it, it won’t stop you from appreciating the minimalist beauty of the lamp design. He used colorless transparent plastic and the light from the LEDs to bring about the idea of gravitational lensing. He also used multiple layers of film to coat the plastic and bring about a “multi-colored refractive light”. The electrical wire meanwhile is supposed to represent the path that an astronaut travels through the wormhole, like in the movie Interstellar.

What you get is a table lamp that can look right at home in sci-fi movies or in homes that have a futuristic and minimalist aesthetic. I wouldn’t mind having a lamp like this especially if the colorfully refracted light will help me sleep well at night or help me meditate on the meaning of life.

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This bedside lamp also warms your scented candle, releasing its fragrance without having to light it

Here’s something about scented candles that they don’t tell you. The fragrant oils in the candle are activated by heat, which means you don’t need to light the candle to emit the fragrance… you just need to keep it warm enough!

Meet the Retro Candle Lamp, a nifty, vintage-inspired lamp designed for your bedside table. Not only does it do the obvious job of lighting up your area with soft, ambient light, but its unique design also comes with an empty platform that you can place scented candles in. The warmth from the lamp helps activate the fragrance molecules in the candle, making it emit its sweet smell without needing to light it and potentially risk having an open flame right by your bedside!

Designer: HOOOME

Made with a vintage-style brushed, oxidized bronze-like aesthetic, the Retro Candle Lamp perfectly fits into any kind of home, whether it’s minimal or mid-century. The lamp itself comes with a 50W incandescent halogen bulb that generates warmth (unlike LEDs that don’t) to help activate the aroma molecules in the candle below. The lamp’s light can be dimmed as per your needs, and even if you want to keep the lamp off and just light the candle underneath, that’s possible too. Just make sure the candle flame isn’t too close to the bulb and you’ll be fine… and don’t ever light both at the same time! A handle on the top also lets you rotate, carry, and position the lamp anywhere without coming in contact with any part that may be hot to the touch.

The Retro Candle Lamp is a wonderful way to have your cake and eat it too, given the fact that it sufficiently lights up your place while also filling it with the aroma from the scented candle of your choice. Given that you don’t have to ever light the candle means less risk of smoke and fire, but with all the benefits of the aromatherapy that ensues! You can grab your own Retro Candle Lamp here.

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Inspired by story of a light switch, eye-catchy colors of this desk lamp is the visual motivation you’ll need to start your day

Every desk craves a space-saving and eye-pleasing desk lamp that has a good reach and decent mood-setting illumination. This is primarily because a good desk lamp can transform the workspace both aesthetically and functionally. In the right illumination, it can elevate the mood and reduce eye fatigue, helping you to get the work done more efficiently.

The journey of the Light-Up Desk Lamp does not start with its illumination prowess, it is however born from an idea of a new beginning. Inspired by the story of a light switch, which the designer believes, has more meaning when turned on than lighting up the space. Turning on the switch indicates a new beginning, which is the notion sprouting the idea of the Light-Up lamp.

Designer: Joonyeol Bae

Just like turning on a switch lights up the space to get you going, the Light-Up lamp is also created to help people “get into the work mode” as soon as the lamp is switched on. Probably because the designer has a single intention behind his creation, it doesn’t have a fancy design.

It is delivered in a simple, yet focused form factor and has the primary intention to create a work mood instantly upon being turned on. Light-Up has little focus on changing the amount of illumination on the desk, so no disturbing color changes and odd flickers.

In addition to being a productivity-enhancing desk lamp, it is also an excellent table organizer. The lamp body can allow people to hold up sticky notes on it to manage schedules or have the to-do right before their eyes.

With its novel idea, Light-Up Desk Lamp encourages one to think out of the box when it comes to picking a desk lamp. This one can be more than just a tool to light up the space: it can be your instant mood flipper and a work organizer in one. Since an eye-catchy color is just the visual motivation you need to start your day, the Light-Up is delivered in lovely bold tones too!

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