New York designer, Luke Kelly, digs lamps. He makes all kinds – but he’s crafted a special kind of lamp that fuses everyone’s need for light with a geeks need to have refined wood, heat sinks and LEDs that can dim – all in the same package.
Kelly calls his new creation Base Lamp and he’s launched a Kickstarter to get it into your hands. He demonstrates in the campaign’s video that you can use almost anything to be a lamp – but I think it’s far more than that. It is like museum lighting for your coolest keepsakes or mementos that you wish to display. Backers have the option to get a base in bamboo or American walnut. The lamps are manufactured in the USA.
British designer, Simon Szymaniak came up with a design for a brilliant, minimalistic – yet functional – wallet called the MiniMAX dɪzaɪn, and he has launched this Kickstarter project to fund its production for the consumer market. The project ends in less than two weeks and it has already reached more than it’s funding goal, with over 500 backers so far.
Szymaniak breaks all the rules for a successful Kickstarter campaign. The photos are not great quality, the video has not been professionally produced, their graphics look like 1990s PowerPoint clipart, and they don’t have a website… but people recognize good quality when they see it and the price is more than reasonable for what you get. Szymaniak may not be a graphic designer, but he can craft a wallet with a very cool concept in design and with an RFID shield to protect geeks on the go.
You really need to see their intro video to properly ‘get’ how brilliant the design of this wallet is.
Made of fine grain Italian leather, these supple wallets let you carry your coins, your paper money and your plastic with ease – and nothing falls out. The wallet is unusually small for such versatility and has a slot for your RFID access cards that you use for transit or for entering your building at work – and an anti-RFID section where you can stick your credit and debit cards to protect them from remote RFID scanners used by those scumbags that like to steal people’s identity.
I jumped on the opportunity to back this project. The leather is supple and the wallet is handcrafted with care. You have the opportunity to select the color combination of elastic band that holds your wallet closed when not in use.
New York designer, Luke Kelly, digs lamps. He makes all kinds – but he’s crafted a special kind of lamp that fuses everyone’s need for light with a geeks need to have refined wood, heat sinks and LEDs that can dim – all in the same package.
