#glow-on

#glow-on

Luxart is a site-specific Luminarium created by Alan Parkinson for Battersea Power Station, composed of softly glowing chambers you can explore.

'Give them a smile, you know, something that can also be a deeper level of understanding,' Sara Ricciardi tells designboom, framing the installation as an immediate emotional trigger before it unfolds into something more layered.

'When I go to bed, I go to work.' Starck describes dreaming as an active method in his design process, where sleep becomes a space for production and innovation.

The installation invites visitors to look through the tangible surfaces to recognize the traces of the creators, visions, and identities that brought them to life.

Zolnianska created a copper-wax composite that forms the shades, a substance that behaves differently every time it's worked. Some shades come out smooth and disc-like, while others emerge heavily textured and volcanic, their deeply pitted surfaces catching and scattering light in unpredictable ways.

"I think of The Bay Lights as a way of making invisible systems visible. The bridge is already full of rhythm, traffic, weather, motion, time and the light responds to that complexity through abstraction. It's not about decoration. It's about revealing the pulse of its location."

Tons upon tons of these single-use plastics end up in landfills or even floating in the ocean. Spanish design firm PET Lamp set out give another purpose to these otherwise short-lived materials. Partnering with artisans in communities from Chile to Ethiopia to Australia, the company celebrates both Indigeneity and sustainability, drawing upon time-honored global craft traditions while supporting local economies and recycling discarded materials.

The HOUYOU lamp doesn't announce itself. It sits on a table, conical and quiet, wrapped in fibrous brown bark that looks almost raw, almost unfinished.

Upload any picture or video, and Musubi uses artificial intelligence to extract the most important part and hover it in space as a 3D image within the frame. That could be a video of a child's first steps or a snapshot of a birthday party. The image will be displayed in 3D form, viewable in all its holographic glory across nearly 170 degrees.

The reference point is specific, not from a general impression of the ocean, but from the particular way jellyfish tentacles move: slow, layered, and almost meditative in repetition. That quality informs the lamp's layered construction and the dense organic lattice etched across its translucent shade. The pattern reads quietly in a lit room. Switch the lamp on and the whole surface activates, casting warm amber light through the texture in a way that feels atmospheric rather than task-driven.

As you dim the lamp, it does not just reduce brightness. It simultaneously shifts the color temperature from a crisp, clear white toward a warm amber tone. During the day, the light is sharp and cool, the kind that supports focus and keeps you alert. As evening arrives and you begin dimming down, it moves into amber territory, which is the spectrum that does not interfere with melatonin production.

Some home products might look a little quirky at first, but when you see them in action, it's clear they solve those everyday annoyances that constantly drive you nuts - you know, cluttered cabinets, dark hallways in the middle of the night, remote controls that always go missing. That's why we carefully curated the list below. From small upgrades to inventions that feel straight-up genius, these picks will make a huge difference.