The CAPtivate Lamp

It's a fact that only 5.5% of plastic bottles used in Great Britain are recycled. This is a pity since the plastics can be reused. Reused can be in a consumer way, like taking the bottle in, melting it and making a new bottle out of it. But reused can also be to use it in for instance an art project.

And this last thing was done in an excellent way by British design corporation LulaDot. This is the CAPtivate Lamp.

The entity has been made out of, indeed, bottle caps. But there's more.

The lamp is available online through LulaDot's website. For a mere 115 GBP it's yours (roughly that's $207). But when you get the lamp all the tops aren't screwed on the lamp. LulaDot gives you about 40 tops to screw on but the rest you'll have to collect yourself. And here comes the great part, the color of the tops creates the color that the light will have.

For example, if you screw on a load of orange Fanta tops the light will become orange. If you choose for Coca-Cola-red the light will become red, and so on.

The great part is that the end user determines how the product looks and can customize it in unlimited ways.

-jdh

The Paper Pulp Lamp

It's a fact that you receive a lot of packaging when you buy a new appliance. Whether it is a computer, television or lamp. You're always in for a load of packaging materials that are, in general, not so good for the environment.

On behalf of the environment the extremely bright British design student David Gardener designed something cool for his graduation assignment. The Paper Pulp Lamp.

This is what the packaging looks like. And here it comes, the packaging is in fact the lamp! When someone buys the lamp they get a package which looks like this. The only thing the end-user has to do is move the electronic parts around for a bit, fold the set and plug the cord in.

And here it is. The Paper Pulp Lamp in a fully functioning state. Gardener said his design was inspired upon the packaging industry that uses paper pulp for it's product (paper pulp is recycled paper). And that the underlying idea was to create a lamp existing solely out of it's own packaging.

Nice!

-jdh