These Modular Wax Lights Stack Like Living Totems

These Modular Wax Lights Stack Like Living Totems

There’s something almost magical about watching a candle melt, the way solid wax transforms into liquid and back again. Copenhagen-based studio Daydreaming Objects has taken that transformative quality and turned it into something completely unexpected: sculptural light towers that feel like they’re alive. Their project, Soft Solids, recently won the Seoul Design Award 2025, and…

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This Lamp Won’t Turn On Unless You Feed It Coins

This Lamp Won’t Turn On Unless You Feed It Coins

We flip switches without thinking, charge devices overnight without considering the cost, and leave lights on in empty rooms like electricity grows on trees. Modern life has made energy consumption so seamless and invisible that most people have completely lost touch with what it actually costs to power our daily habits. DesignNest’s Coinlamp DINA forces…

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This Sleep Lamp Tackles Digital Sleep Disruption

This Sleep Lamp Tackles Digital Sleep Disruption

Thomas Heatherwick has turned his attention from grand architectural gestures to the intimate space of the bedroom, collaborating with British lighting brand Tala on Wake, a sleep light designed to combat our screen-obsessed bedtime habits. The partnership between Heatherwick Studio and Tala represents a three-year journey into the intersection of design, wellness, and technology. The…

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