Two clever lamps, one from Swe­den and one from Ger­many.

The Sketch Lamp, by Hom­min in Stock­holm, flips and swivels to trans­form into a light­box. Per­fect for draft­ing, but I imag­ine that the lamp could be maneu­vered to light from any angle, which is great for pho­tog­ra­phy, too. Also I am very attract­ed to the idea of a desk lamp that is as large as an A4 paper.

Dres­den-based Dreipuls received a red dot design award last year for its Rima Desk Lamp, a track-light­ing sys­tem where a strip of LEDs are acti­vat­ed as the user slides the ring-shaped “switch­es” from side to side. Too bad it’s still in its con­cept stages, but maybe while they’re still pro­to­typ­ing it, they can make a deluxe ver­sion that I will even­tu­al­ly install on the ceil­ings of my enor­mous apart­ment (also a con­cept yet to be real­ized).

Sketch Lamp via sub-stu­dio
Rima Desk Lamp via Core77