Ready-Made Lighting From Das rote Paket

Ready-Made Lighting
From Das rote Paket

R-NESTO by Juraj Vyboh, Bratislava

Das rote Paket, based in Leipzig, Germany, introduces unique designs from young architects and designers. Earlier this year they held a lighting design competition using ready-made objects and a small budget. Jump below to read more.

The task: design and build a ready-made light that works with a low energy light bulb. Sounds simple? Here are some more qualifications: it should be built with prefabricated parts and costs for all parts should not exceed 40 Euros (approximately $60.00).

The results: incredible. Submissions from all over the world brought to light (literally) the wide variety of creativity and ingenuity that can be produced, and reproduced, with a small budget. Check out images from a few of the finalists (shown in images above) as well as many more unique designs here.

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Comments (8)

oooo... that first one looks like a hive or egg sack or something from a horror movie!

posted by CozyLittleCave on October 30th 2009 at 6:56pm
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I made 157 of the first one for Montreal's SIDIM show back in 2007. Looked awesome.

posted by modestalmond on October 30th 2009 at 7:59pm
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oh my goodness! coincidentally, my supervisors made a costumes to look like jack from the jack in the box commercials (http://www.edgelearning.com/images/t_jackbig.jpg) and they made them out of styrofoam cups, just like the first picture, though they used hot glue to hold theirs' together. it was funny because they could barely see and kept running into stuff

totally off topic, but i had to share!

posted by TarDan731 on October 30th 2009 at 8:50pm
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Oh no. At first look the styrofoam and binder clip light looked like the clips were spiders or something.

posted by imake1tgirl on October 31st 2009 at 2:06am
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I thought the first lamp was covered in spiders too!

I really like the egg cup, though, and the lamp in the jar.

posted by Yvomp on October 31st 2009 at 12:03pm
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That first one looks like an old Lalique perfume bottle design!

Check it out:

http://www.laliqueperfumebottles.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=5938526

posted by Sousani on October 31st 2009 at 2:00pm
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WOW!!!!! the first one, i just saw and figured like three new twists on it!!!!!

sorry for those who dont like it... it just screams to get more done to it and with it!!!!!

posted by manu_pty on October 31st 2009 at 4:30pm
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You know what jars are perfect for light fixtures are the opaque white marmelade jars, can't remember the brand.

posted by ElementalLEDstaff on November 2nd 2009 at 6:16pm
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