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Night Graffiti: Shake-Powered LED Spray Paint Can Sleeve

The nature of graffiti tends to result in nocturnal excursions, but painting completely in the dark can be a be problem and sometimes you just need a little bit of light. LASH is a ...

House of Glass: Cabin Facade from Antique Window Frames

On an unusual kind of cross-country road trip, this couple visited garage sales, antique dealers and added these to other roadside finds, all toward the quest of assembling an an eccentric ...

Starry Light: Hand-Crafted Shell Lamps Cast Stellar Patterns

Innocuous spheres by day, the carefully handmade holes dotting these coconut shells are hard to even see until they light up at night, morphing from muted balls to bright ...

Curved Skyscraper Melts Cars, Starts Fires with Heat of Sun

A nearly-complete London tower is being investigated thanks to reflected daylight that is dazzling (and sizzling) the neighborhood in extreme, surprising and undesirable ways. The structure is ...

Dark City: Giant Mirrors Aim to Illuminate Town in Shadows

A lovely little settlement in a lush valley of Norway sounds like a slice of paradise - except that the surrounding hills keep it out of sunlight for nearly half of the year. This incredible ...

On Not Off: Giant Light Switch Mural is Brilliantly Literal

A photo-realistic mural with a nuanced message, this giant work of wall art is impressive in scale and a definite surprise to passers by. Complete with shade and shadow, the huge on-and-off power ...

Natural Lighting: Grow Your Own Glow-in-the-Dark Plants

Imagine the possibilities: cities illuminated at night not with carbon dioxide-producing energy sources, but with real glow-in-the-dark trees that light up streets and sidewalks ...

Spectral Studio: 20 Sq M Space Uses Light & Dark as Decor

In an Paris apartment with just over 200 square feet, it is almost impossible to imagine anything but the more bare essentials resulting a boring space. But that is where illumination enters the ...

All-in-One Bicycle Helmet: Sleek Integrated Lights & Signals

Bicyclists need this. Incredible design is not just about looking good (which this does) or working well (which this does), but weaving the solution so that each seems the natural outcome of the ...

Geometric Projections: Light Art Radically Reshapes Nature

Everyone knows there are mathematical patterns to be found everywhere in nature - though few such geometries are as explicit and dazzling as those imposed by this projection artist. Javier ...

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