Kids lamp concept offers a more comforting and sustainable way to help children sleep at night

Many people can’t sleep with the lights on, especially bright ceiling lights, but it’s a habit that may have been developed over the course of years. In contrast, children find it hard to sleep in the dark, especially when their imaginations and senses get the better of them, increasing their body tension and preventing them from descending into more relaxed states. The market for night lamps for kids is a big one, and, unfortunately, it’s a wasteful one as well. There is plenty of room for improvement and many problems to tackle, and this lamp design concept for kids tries to address those concerns from multiple angles, providing a smarter yet friendlier companion for the night.

Designer: Arlen Smart

Children’s products are specially designed to appeal to the younger interests and sensibilities of kids, but for some reason, that is often equated to the use of plastic materials and designs that are hard to repair or disassemble. The end result is often mountains of improperly disposed of toys, furniture, and accessories that endanger the very future of the planet that these kids will have to live on. At the same time, however, designing for sustainability seems to be a bit harder to pull off for kids’ products, a presumption that the Lumo light concept is trying to prove wrong.

Right off the bat, the night lamp looks like a toy, making them feel and look like friends that children can trust to watch over them at night. The handles on the sides look like arms, while the lampshade at the top looks like its head. The lamp is also supposedly easy to clean, disassemble, repair, and recycle, but there are also parts that won’t be easy for kids to reach, like an anti-affordance area at the top to prevent kids’ fingers from being trapped.

The lamp is also designed to be a bit smarter in how much energy it uses up by changing the way it lights up a space to help a child through the different phases of falling asleep. A wide, projected light from the top, for example, could give something for kids to focus on, lulling them to sleep. A “full-body” night mode lamp brings a gentler glow around the room to provide a sense of security, while a torch lamp can help them navigate in the dark when they need to go to the toilet. The lamp is also equipped with sensors that will prevent damaging a child’s sensitive eyes with bright light.

Smart, sustainable, and friendly, the Lumo not only brings forward a new design but also a new way of thinking about designing kids’ products. A lot has changed in the world since the earliest days of plastic toys and products, and it’s high time to rethink the materials we use, which could actually be harmful to children, and the way we make them for longevity and sustainability.

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This lamp concept, inspired by the Earth and the moon, provides two kinds of light

Lamps come not just in many forms but also in different intensities and with different purposes. Some lamps are made to shine brightly in order to provide sufficient illumination, while others have a softer glow in order to set the ambiance of a room. Most of the time, these different functions are performed by different lamps, mostly because it’s difficult for the same design to serve the same purpose. Sure, you may be able to control the light’s intensity, but its direction and diffusion are entirely different things. This lamp concept, however, tries to prove that such a thing is possible, and it looks a bit to the heavens to find inspiration.

Designer: Nicola Pezzotti, Andrea Gallarini

A lamp that can provide both bright directed light and soft diffused illumination is going to be a winner for many people. Such a lamp would naturally save space and money, performing two functions in the space of one. It’s harder to pull off, though, given the different purposes they serve and the different requirements. It’s not impossible, though, especially with some creative and unconventional thinking, taking inspiration from unlikely sources.

As its name suggests, Orbis takes inspiration from the orbit of heavenly bodies, specifically that of the moon around the Earth. The cylindrical lamp holds a bulb standing as a pillar in the middle. A slider on top lets you direct where the bright light shines and whether it occludes part of the light or not. This is almost similar to how the moon travels across the night sky or how its different phases only show part or all of its face.

The moon’s light is also less harsh than the sun’s, and the Orbis lamp also provides that kind of lighting. A button at the top activates a ring of light on top, which has a softer glow and is perfect for a night or mood lamp. This way, a single lamp can provide two kinds of light for your room, letting you choose what to use for which purpose. Perhaps you want a more directed and brighter light while reading before bed and then switching to a gentler light when you finally want to sleep.

If not for the cord that gives power to this lamp, Orbis could be placed almost anywhere, whether on a desk or beside your bed. As far as structure goes, it isn’t exactly revolutionary, but its unusual design and mechanism successfully turn it into an interesting piece of decoration and lighting in any room.

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Incense Lamp curls and bends like a real incense

Incense Lamp Details

A lamp is an object that can come in different shapes and sizes. It doesn’t have to be boring with its basic stand and a lampshade. Lamps can be interesting and enjoyable to look at and use.

Lamps serve an essential function, and that is to illuminate the surroundings. Perhaps a lamp is one of the easiest ways to change the look of a particular area in the house. The amount of lighting and the kind of illumination a lamp gives will depend on your style.

Designer: Siyu Lou

Incense Lamp Lighting

The Incense Lamp is a new lamp design inspired by incense. The Chinese incense, specifically, is the inspiration for this. Like a real incense, the lamp curls as if it is an incense burning. The curling of the incense signifies Buddha’s coming to the Chinese.

To turn on the light, you need to blow the lampshade. Blow again if you want to turn it off. When the lamp is on, the silicon lampshade will slowly bend. It will come back to its original form when turned off.

And like real incense, the light of the lamp will slowly fade. It may need some 30 minutes to be fully turned off, which is suitable for those who want to slow things down. On the other hand, it may be just what you need when you want some time to relax.

Incense Lamp Designer

The Incense Lamp designed by Siyu Lou boasts minimalist aesthetics. Like other Siyu Lou designs, this one is simple in white and its form. The lamp stands because another curled part at the bottom serves as the support. The primary material of the upper tip is silicone, so it can bend.

Incense Lamp Design

A power button is found on the bottom curl. There is also a tiny LED light that we’re assuming indicates if the battery is low. We’re also assuming this one is battery-operated because there is no wire or cable. The body of the lamp is very slim so a battery may be enough to power it.

Uniquely and beautifully designed lamps are more than just a trend. The design world is fast-moving, and this includes lamp design. The latter is an excellent and effective way to complement any home when it comes to aesthetics. You can just buy a new lamp if you want to change a room’s look quickly.

Incense Lamp Product

A lamp’s purpose is to light the home, but it is also decorative. Any well-designed lamp adds beauty and cozy touch to any home area. It’s one way to unleash one’s creativity or make a room a fun space for everyone. The Incense Lamp can be a conversation starter because, at first glance, you may not figure out what it is.

Incense Lamp

Incense Lamp Concept

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This desktop night-lamp also wirelessly charges your smartphone

A portmanteau of the words Lamp and Balance, the Lance night-light and wireless-charger is the kind you’d stop to admire for two reasons. Firstly, it’s a cute, quaint product that sits obediently on your tabletop, but at the same time, it charges your phone, so you’re not distracted by a screen.

The Lance was created as a project by Francesco Brunetti while he was a student at Design School Kolding, Denmark as a collaboration with IKEA. The brief was to design ‘furniture for small spaces which should have playful characteristics as well as foster togetherness’, and the Lance truly delivers. Its relatively flat design doesn’t have any sharp edges, making it feel instantly friendly, and the warm LED light on the top can be changed in color as well as intensity to soothe your room with a wash of ambient light.

The Lance at the same time also serves as a wireless charger for smartphones, thanks to a slot right beneath the light wide enough to slide your phone too. The slot is covered by the night-light in a clever bid to obscure the screen so you aren’t distracted, and while all that’s happening, your phone’s battery gets juiced! Really clever, eh?

Designers: Francesco Brunetti in collaboration with IKEA and DSKD

‘Among Us’ inspired night-lamp and digital clock is the most adorable tabletop accessory!

Created as an unofficial piece of merchandise for the breakout success online multiplayer game, Among Us, this digital clock and night-lamp may just be the cutest potential stocking-stuffer of this season! Designed by Kim Min Soo, the Among Us Lamp + Clock wonderfully transforms the adorable astronaut character from the game into a functional desktop clock, with the visor displaying the time of the day. Lift the torso off the character and it reveals a night-lamp underneath, disguised as the astronaut’s corpse with the signature bone protruding out of the waist!

While the product itself is an instant favorite, its choice of functionality is pretty well-planned too! The digital clock on the visor helps you keep track of the time while you do your ‘tasks’ (office work), and the night-lamp underneath is a wonderful way to illuminate your immediate surroundings when someone sabotages your house’s electrical systems. Obviously, I’m referring to power-cuts and not actual electrical sabotage, though I wouldn’t put it past my friends or family to act sus…

The Among Us Lamp + Clock is currently just a conceptual product, but the purpose of this article really is to put this concept into the ether in the hopes that someone with a 3D Printer and an Etsy store will actually begin selling this before Christmas! Next concept, a paper-shredder disguised as an Imposter!

Designer: Kim Min Soo

A lamp designed to help you establish a healthy sleep routine!

Is the pandemic giving you sleepless nights? If you answer no, please email us and give us your wellness routine. If you answered yes, then this lamp was designed to treat your insomnia. This lamp was made so that you could associate it with more than just an illumination source, the designer wants you to look at this lamp as an appliance that can help you establish a healthy sleeping pattern along with its core function.

Sleep patterns change with exposure to light which has considerably increased during quarantine as we spend more time on our phones and laptops. This disturbs the body’s circadian rhythm and tricks it into being awake for longer hours even though it is dark outside. The first step is to reduce screen time, but that alone won’t make our body adapt to the change in light – so to be an additional aid, this lamp helps to create a sleepy-time ambiance gradually which mimics the natural light cycle outside so your body can adapt faster to the new routine.

There are recommended light levels for different pre-bedtime activities like watching TV, reading, meditating, etc. and you can adjust the lightness/darkness for them through this lamp so it helps you wind down easily and amplifies the impact of your bedtime routine. You can set a timer for when you want the light to go off and it will gradually decrease till shutdown time so the darkness is not abrupt – another small detail to get your circadian rhythm on track! The lamp is flexible so it can be used during the day as well like a desk lamp and the minimal design makes it a perfect fit for any interior style, especially a small space. Sleeping peacefully during a global pandemic is not the easiest thing, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel and a smart one in your room to get you there.

Designer: Locus Hsu for Husky Design

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You don’t switch this mood light on… You launch it!

With a simplified design and a toyish charm, the Spaceship mood light is perfect for adding light as well as light-heartedness to a room. The toy rocket sits on any table, supported by a cloud of translucent smoke that makes it look like the rocket has just taken off. Press the rocket downwards and the light inside the smoke cloud switches on with a satisfying click, truly making it look like the Spaceship is bound for the stars!

A dim LED inside the smoke cloud gives off an ambient glow, illuminating the room with a soft light perfect for night-times. Or you could funk things up and opt for a colored light that is sure to light up spaces as well as lives of youngsters as well as those who are young-at-heart!

Designers: Hongseok Seo, Minkwan Seo & Jin D

Something to Howl About

Inspired by our unique human obsession with the moon, this lamp design brings the natural occurrence of the moon’s ever-changing cycle into the comfort of home. The Moon lamp’s sliding cover can be adjusted to reveal more or less light depending on need. The full spectrum, from a sliver of a crescent to a full moon, is available to always achieve the perfect glow.

Designer: Anil Ercan

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