Check out this recyclable light bulb from designer Tim Edgeler, designed to provide a solution to current light bulbs which usually end up in the bin and don’t get recycled. The d:light is a light ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series that examines the lessons behind the most disruptive products in history through the lens of design. Few products in recent history have been as ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There was a time in recent memory when hanging a bare bulb as a domestic light source suggested a lack of decorative imagination, an absence of house pride, ...

Maybe I was born in the wrong century, because the color of light really matters to me. Fluorescent’s ugly flicker makes me nervous; the CFLs are an evil stepmother, harsh and cold even when they ...

Philips recently unveiled SlimStyle – a revolutionary flat A19 LED light bulb that would make Edison proud. With the 2014 federal phase-out of 40- and 60-watt incandescent bulbs now in effect, the ...

Designer Samuel Wilkinson and product design company Hulger, founded by Poke director Nik Roope, have been awarded the 2011 Brit Insurance Design of the Year award for the Plumen 001 energy-saving ...

In 2010, entrepreneurs Nicolas Roope and Michael-George Hemus launched Plumen, an energy-efficient light bulb with design credentials. Six years later, Plumen has become a full lighting company, and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Before the Plumen 001 was launched in 2010 low-energy lighting solutions had been more about obligation than ...

This faithful firehouse light bulb has been illuminated for 113 years. Courtesy of Dick Jones Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar ...