Funny Lamps

Lamps and lighting are a realm in which creative product designers can really show their stuff–and have a little fun while they’re at it. Creative and unusual lamp designs are everywhere these days. Here are some of our favorites.

The acrylic X Lamp by the French design company PRoToCol is a fun cool and cool alternative for lighting up your room. The contemporary x-shaped design of the lamp creates a glowing light in four directions. The X Lamp measures 368(H) x 368(W) x 135(D) mm and is available in red, white or blue.

Beautiful and original design from the 1960's. Each lamp is handcrafted in Ravenna, Italy, of fiberglass and then coated with a layer of natural Italian stones. Both beautiful and modern, these lamps give any space a natural warm atmosphere. Can be used as ambient lighting on the floor or table top. 

ID Award 2008 Biennial Winning an interior product award. Design by Hiroshi Yoneya and Yumi Masuko.

This morbid lamp was created by design studio Enpieza in Spain. The Colgao (”hung” in Spanish) is hanging from the top horizontal rod of the lamp. The lamp looks very simple except for the tasteless, hanging anthropomorphic figure. Either the designers were fresh out of ideas or they are into black humor. 

Creative lamp designed by Clara Sjodin that looks like a sneaker. The cloth shoe laces are not only accurately scaled, they are the actual power cords for the bulbs found in each sneaker, which helps keep the lamp's design very clean. Would you put a pair up in your house?

Fire inspired lamp designed by Santiago Sevillano. The body is made of white semitransparent PET rotational molding and inside is LED lighting. Thetable lamps are wireless and use a base charge.

Created by Brazilian designer Rafael Morgan, the Light Drop takes decorative lighting options to a new level of creativity. This watery light features a tap oozing out of a big drop of lighted water. Another trait that adds into the mystery of this unique light is the way it controls the illumination. It is the tap that doubles up as the dimmer in this case. Just turn it around and you can control the effects.

LULL is a lamp that opens and closes like a flower. In the evening the lamp gives a warm glow, to give a feeling of safety while it slowly turns itself off. In the morning the lamp opens, gradually increasing the light intensity to give the user a more comfortable awakening. LULL is an award-winning product made for GiForm 2007, an industrial design competition in Norway

Moonwalk is the name of this fun and cool lamp made by Thomas De Lussac, a French designer of furniture, light fittings and sofas. The lamp is described as a “playful wink in the universe of the creator”. It’s made of lacquered aluminum and available in several colors.

Nymph, as in “the immature form of some insects”, is the name of this odd and cool looking lamp by Site Specific Design – an interior and furniture design company based in Brooklyn, New York. 

Called At Your Command, these really cool lamps can be manipulated into different postures as they are jointed. By Daniel Loves Objects.

Designed by Ettore Cimini of Lumina Italia, the Ra desk lamp looks like a rattlesnake. The light coming from the ends of the arms actually originates from a single 100 watt bulb at the base of the lamp… Fiber optic cables run from the base up through each arm, channeling light from the bulb up and out the ends of the lamp. The light can be dimmed, and red, blue, or green filters can be used, all controlled by touching the lamp’s base.