Phillips’s new pendant lights are 3D-printed from recycled fishing nets and delivered in 8 days

Designed by the Signify Global Design Team, the Philips MyCreation droplet pendant lamp is a unique product that combines sustainability and beauty. Hanging from the ceiling with an aesthetic that’s equal parts modern and rustic, the lamp employs 3D-printing processes, which give it its shape and texture. The lamp’s raw material, however, comes from recycled fishing nets, gathered directly from harbors on the Cornish coast. Made locally and manufactured on-demand, each lamp explores a variety of coastal-inspired texture styles and comes with a gradual gradient that goes from turquoise to a light lemon yellow, creating a beautiful hue in the process that’s only further accentuated by the irregularities in its design created by the 3D printer.

Designer: Signify Global Design Team

The recycled nature of the lamp’s material lends a level of unburnished imperfection to it, making it unique. The material and the 3D-printing technique create their own minor irregularities that help give the lamp its bespoke appeal. When the light inside it is switched on, these imperfections take on a character of their own, making the lamp look much more beautiful than something polished and mass-manufactured.

The lamps’ designs borrow from their marine origins too, with patterns that pay homage to the sea. The cross-hatched design (shown below) is reminiscent of the fishnet, while the wavy pattern (above) references the ripples seen in the sand at the bottom of an ocean-based on water currents. Each lamp is made to order and takes roughly 8 days to be printed and delivered. Aside from being recycled, the lamps are further recyclable too, allowing the plastic to be reused in a variety of other formats.

The Phillips MyCreation Drop Pendant Light is a Gold winner of the International Design Excellence Awards for the year 2022.

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A fine bit of biomimicry, this!

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Who knew that the shape of a snowflake could inspire the cooling fins of a product?! Literally inspired by something that’s cold, the Phillips Black Snow high-intensity industrial lights have a set of snowflake pattern inspired cooling fins at the back. The fins, aside from looking like a black snowflake, leverage the design to dissipate heat into the air, hence cooling the product down.

The Black Snow is an ultra-thin High Bay Light used in warehouses and factories. Its innovative design allows it to be the lightest 150W light, weighing just a mere 1.5 kgs. It even comes with the ability to tesselate, forming larger and stronger lighting units.

The Phillips Black Snow is a winner of the iF Design Award for the year 2018.

Designer: Phillips

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Hue Bulbs Finally Get A Switch

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In case you haven’t seen them, Philips makes a popular set of LED lightbulbs called Hue, that wirelessly connect to your network and allow you to control them via your smartphone. You can change their colour, intensity, etc. at the touch of a button from just about anywhere. Well, now they’re getting an actual physical switch called the Tap, and that’s a good thing. Think about it, smartphone connectivity is cool and gee-whiz and all that, but when you enter a room you want to turn the lights on immediately. You don’t want to futz around in your pockets, take your phone out, unlock the screen, find the app, and press a button. Tap is a puck-shaped device that sticks to any surface and charges through kinetic action; this means that every time you press a button you’re also charging the battery, effectively requiring no other external input of power. It’s due to come out after this summer, for $60.

[ Press Release ] VIA [ Geek.com ]

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