Creative Cardboard Lamps..!!

      What if cardboards could be turned into beautiful and creative lamps ?? Well I liked the idea. 
 
    Yes, Lamps made out from cardboard. It's the best way to use cardboard and turn it into an amazing lamp. Below I've posted some pictures of creative lamps made from cardboard and among these there are some lamps made from recycled cardboard. I loved the idea wherein you can make lamps from recycled cardboard. Pretty amazing..!! Isn't it ?? Well I've loved the designs how abt you..??

 

First, gather your materials.

• Corrugated cardboard, 25" wide and as tall as you'd like your light
• Spray paint
• Yard stick
• Box cutter
• Glue gun
• Pendant light cord (this one from Ikea is only $5!)

Step 1: Start by spray painting one side of the cardboard. Let it dry thoroughly and turn the cardboard painted side down. 

Step 2: Mark the cardboard at 5-inch intervals lengthwise with the box cutter. On each mark, make a vertical cut with the box cutter so that the top side of the cardboard is cut but the bottom side remains intact.

 

Step 3: Lay the cardboard flat again and cut it into strips lengthwise by tracing along the yard stick with the box cutter. 

 

Step 4: Once your strips are cut, hot glue the ends of each strip together (painted side in) so that you have pentagons. Then begin making a staggered stack with the pentagons and securing them in place with hot glue

 

Step 5: Finally, cut a solid pentagon out of cardboard for the top of the pendant. Cut a hole in the top just wide enough to fit the light socket snugly. Secure this to the top of the pendant with hot glue, and light it up!

 

 

         With homeowners getting more conscious about the furniture and decorative items they place in their environmentally friendly homes, designers too have started creating environmentally friendly home décor items for such green homes. One such designer is Karina Sidorova of Karina Design, who has come up with an eco-friendly lamp that is made using cardboard.

         We’ve seen innovative designers make use of this humble packaging material to create a variety of products, but the Eco Lamp shows how creative and beautiful cardboard products can be made. The prototype Eco Lamp is made using 480 rolled cardboard strips. The unique design and the choice of material makes this lamp emit a distinct glow which makes it an ideal addition to any green home.

Table Lamp

   A unique and cost-effective addition to the desk, the corrugated cardboard desk lampdesigned by Instructables user Jesse Harrington Au features a striking design created fromunexpected materials. Designed using complex graphic imaging software, the lamp is laseretched into cardboard and then easily assembled via numbering. To finish, a relatively inexpensive strip of LED lights are added for soft light that is low energy and high impact. The contemporary silhouette of the lamp also features a compartment for storing your cell phone or anything else.
Don’t have a laser-etching machine on hand? That’s ok because the design can be easily printed and traced onto cardboard to get the same look and the LED base can be purchased at a local hardware store. The design is available online via the Instrutables site where other modern takes on household materials can be found and submitted.

Dome Lamp

Seattle based conceptual design studio, Graypants, created these incredible pendant lamps that are  laser-cut from repurposed cardboard boxes and hand assembled. Founded in 2008 in Seattle, the company creates all sorts of products, architecture and other fun things, operating teams in Seattle as well as in Amsterdam.

This series of scraplights came out of our love and fascination with the giant planet that shares our solar system.  it is the largest of any planet, fifth from our sun, and is categorized as a gas giant. its best known feature is the great red spot, referenced in the assembly of this scraplight. we chose the four largest moons discovered by galileo to accompany jupiter. from largest to smallest, these galilean moons are named ganymede, callisto, io, and europa. you may purchase them at a discounted price as a set of 5 (including jupiter) or individually.

Cardboard lights and lamps seem to embrace a form of defiance, contradicting the normal permanence and required fire-proof nature of lighting fixture designs. Where normal fixtures are often decorative, solid and stable, cardboard fixtures can be simple, permeable and flexible.

David Graas designs light-emitting objects that invert industrial design expectations and explore playful, interactive and do-it-yourself variations on traditional lighting designs. In some of his works there is a fair amount of assembly required, the object of such designs is as much process as product.

 

In other designs, Graas transforms traditional-looking shapes and shadows by cutting out a void from a solid and making light come through, rather than emit from, the physical gaps in a lamp. A two-dimensional piece of packaging becomes the object itself, ready to go with a bulb and a plug. Best of all, this entire strategy is not only creative but also eco-friendly: sustainable and recyclable cardboard boxes become the basis of the light rather than a permanent, heavy and hard-to-recycle mixed wood, metal and/or glass object.

"Tall Boy" was designed and built in our Salt Lake City, UT based studio and design workshop with the idea of using an unconventional material and transforming it into a simple object of function and beauty. The individual layers of corrugated cardboard were laser cut, stacked and alternated with spacers in between each layer which yields a nice, soft screening effect. Laser cut 1/4" MDF plates contain the layers of cardboard at the top and bottom and are glued together with an inset 1/4" square hardwood dowel which makes for a clean and simple detail (see photos).

The light includes a UL Listed Cord Set with a length of 15'5".
We recommend the use of a CFL (Compact Flourescent Light) Bulb or LED Bulb - not included. Hanging hardware is not included, but can easily be found at your local hardware store. Please ensure hanging hooks are installed properly, depending upon the material you will be anchoring into.

An occasional air dusting is recommended for product upkeep. Due to the nature of this product, it is not recommended for use in areas with consistently high levels of moisture/humidity or environments where conditions fluctuate rapidly.

Besbello cardboard lamp is made by stacking corrugated cardboard square pieces of Kraft paper. Includes energy saving lamp and electrical equipment to choose from.

Eco friendly packaging is being strongly promoted today by many of the manufactures who are aware enough of the current environment situation and wanted to do something to help it save from possible harm or damage. The Cardboard Lamp by Luis Morales is one of the green packaging that many will different soon, the moment this design would come into fruition. As the name suggest, the Cardboard lamp is obviously made out of cutout cardboard. The best part about the cardboard lamp is that, the cardboard does not only serve as the lamp’s base but as the packaging of the said lamp as well. In this way, packaging are re-purposed and landfill with dramatically minimized.

Made from Recycled Cardboard

German designer Michael Wolke has created these grand sculptural Beute lamps by overlapping thin strips of old cardboard. Taking on a modern and clean form, the pendant lamps hang from the ceiling like the top half of a bee hive suspended in a room. And with an ambient downward glow, the fixtures are a beautiful and useful feature for a spacious room.

Using layers of card, the structures are given a curved form — perfect for directing light and creating a soft and shapely appearance. Wolke’s designs often combine the useful with unusual contemporary formations, like his edgy wire benches and innovative shopping-cart coat hooks.

Here is an idea – instead of throwing away packages from light bulbs, why not turn them into something useful and functional? This is what English illustrator and graphic designer Chris Anderson did. His Lamp is a socket that turns into a real table lamp in seconds. It is fun, simple, and unpretentious. And the product is made from recycled cardboard – another wholesome eco-friendly detail.

The Brazilian designer wanted to extend the life cycle of wine packaging and I must agree that she found a very creative way.  The lamp is beautiful and would make that house warming gift bottle last a little longer.  I am not sure everyone who buys a wine bottle needs a new lamp so there is some excess. However, it another good start to the conversation on our packaging along with the hp laptops that are packed in bags. YES, we can package things better.