We found this cool pendant lamp made from re-purposed coat hangers over at Thwart Design.  They don’t have any information on it but it has inspired us so we will work up a how-to and share it with you when it’s done.  Stay tuned…

Stephan Siepermann’s Leaft lamps cast a beautiful luminous glow on your wall in an eco-friendly form.  Each leaf is made from recycled, or as they would say, “upcycled” plastic casts and adorned with LED lamps that require minimum amounts of power.  The result is a unique piece of art that softly contrasts light and shadow.  We try not to tempt you with too many items that you cannot buy but we these were too beautiful to pass up and we cannot for the life of us find where to get your hands on this.  The designers website say the lamp is “available with a different amount of leaves” so one would assume it is available.  If you know where to buy this let us know, and we’ll keep you updated.

Go green literally with a reclaimed traffic light lamp. Green Light Concepts has delivered a creative use for piles of trashed traffic light lenses that were on their way to the landfill. Made of solid glass and fabricated into beautiful fixtures, both hanging and standing, these lights come in the three basic traffic light color options. As cities upgrade to more visible LED format lights the discarded old-school glass lenses were ripe for rediscovery. So stop looking around for a new lighting addition, yield to the sustainable eco-wave all around you, and go get a Green Light Concepts reclaimed traffic light!

OSRAM, along with designer Ingo Maurer, unveiled it the “Early Future” OLED lamp at the Lighting & Building Fair this week.  While it is not available to the public yet, this could be the first OLED light to hit the the shelves.  The highly anticipated OLED technology is known for it’s high efficiency & low energy consumption,  super long life and mercury free design.  The “Early Future” is made up of ten distinct OLED tiles measuring 132 x 33 mm each providing eco-friendly light in an elegant design.  OSRAM explains that this is just a step towards the full potential of the OLED lights.  Down the road they plan to take advantage of the OLED’s unique property to create applications such as a completely transparent OLED Skylight that will let sunlight through in the day and provide light at night.