For generations, the lightbulb remained a stagnant design—until 2010 that is, when the Plumen 001 was first introduced as the world’s first low-energy, designer bulb. Now today, Plumen again changes the game with the introduction of the new ,…
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East London design brand Hulger has launched a second design for its award-winning Plumen low-energy lightbulbs.
The Plumen 002 produces a softer light than the original design that’s more suited to ambient lighting.
Like the original Plumen design, which won Design of the Year when it launched three years ago, the new product is a compact fluorescent bulb that replaces the usual prongs and whirls of a standard energy efficient bulb with a sculptural shape that means it looks attractive in light fittings where the naked bulb is left on display.
Whereas the first Plumen bulb was created by drawing with looping tubes of glass, this new design involved shaping the form of the fluorescent tube itself.
The sculpted tube takes on the profile of a traditional light bulb from some angles but the form has been cut away and pierced to leave swooping curves, straight edges when viewed from the side and a oblong void in the middle.
“The geometry of the Plumen 002 creates interesting resonances in the square and oblong spaces they will usually inhabit,” said Hulger founder, creative director and designer Nicolas Roope. “The effect is particularly strong when used in series and when played off against walls and surfaces.”
The concept was to blow the glass tube like a bottle, which still maintaing the loop required for the technology to function. “This approach hadn’t been done in any mainstream bulbs before, but the team believed it was plausible,” said the designers, who enlisted the help of Texan neon sculptor Tony Greer to advise on the different lighting effects and intensities that various shapes would achieve.
“We looked for the right balance between an integrated and disintegrated construction, between organic and geometric form, something that would present a certain dynamic while remaining gentle,” said designer Bertrand Clerc.
“The work of modern sculptor Barbara Hepworth really helped us in creating an interesting relation between this hollow space and the surface of the outer body,” he added. “The transfer between these two elements also establishes an elegant connection between the rather contemporary inner silhouette, and the more traditional appearance of the outer silhouette.”
The new design is a 7W bulb giving off the equivalent of a 30W incandescent light source and the low brightness means it doesn’t need shading.
The company has launched the Plumen 002 design on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter today in the hope that its community of supporters who rallied round the original design will help to put the new bulb into production.
They also hinted that an LED Plumen bulb could be on the way.
Hulger created its first series of sculptural low-energy bulb prototypes in 2007, coinciding with the phasing out of inefficient incandescent light bulbs and aiming to reinvent the ugly compact fluorescent lamps as a beautiful product.
The Plumen 001 bulb designed by Samuel Wilkinson was released in 2010 and hailed as the world’s first low-energy designer light bulb, winning the Design of the Year award in 2011. It uses 80 percent less energy than a traditional bulb and lasts up to eight times longer.
A smaller version called the Baby Plumen was launched during the London Design Festival 2012.
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In this final movie in the series filmed by Dezeen for the Stepney Green Design Collection, London design brand Hulger’s creative director Nicolas Roope talks about the “thriving community of creative people” in east London.
Hulger‘s office is in Shoreditch, east London, and Roope explains that the creative community in the area ”creates a nice atmosphere and tends to bring with it great places to eat, drink coffee and beer.”
Hulger and designer Sam Wilkinson created the energy saving Plumen 001 light bulb, which won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award last year, and released the smaller Baby Plumen version earlier this year.
“We present [Plumen bulbs] in lots of different ways, but this year we thought we’d step it up and use the light bulbs in a series of chandelier arrangements,” says Roope.
Hulger collaborated with visual consultants Haptic Thought to create the Hollywood Chandelier, made from 40 Baby Plumen bulbs suspended in rows from copper fixings on a mirrored plate.
“Regimented, geometric relationships between the bulbs create an interesting effect with the echoed forms running throughout the structure,” Roope notes.
The Stepney Green Design Collection consists of 10 products selected by Marcus Fairs of Dezeen from creatives who live near to VIVO, a new housing development in the east London district. The project also includes objects chosen by east London bloggers Pete Stean of Londoneer and Kate Antoniou of Run Riot.
The collection is on show at the Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Road, Whitechapel, London E1 4UJ, from 10am to 10pm every day until January. After this, the objects will be given to VIVO residents.
See all the items in the Stepney Green Design Collection here and watch the movies we’ve featured so far here. The music featured in the movies is by American designer and musician Glen Lib. You can listen to the full track on Dezeen Music Project.
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East London design brand Hulger has contributed a chandelier made from its new Baby Plumen light bulbs to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen.
Hollywood Chandelier, which was produced in collaboration with design consultancy Haptic Thought, features 40 Baby Plumen 001 energy saving light bulbs suspended in rows from copper fixings.
Baby Plumen is a miniature version of Hulger’s award-winning Plumen 001 fluorescent light bulb, which was designed in collaboration with Samuel Wilkinson and won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award in 2011. See all our stories about Plumen here.
Photographs are by Petr Krejčí.
Dezeen has been commissioned to curate a collection of products designed by east London creatives that live near to new housing development VIVO and we have been publishing the designs as they are added to the collection. See all the stories about the pieces in the collection here.
The designs will be on show as part of a collection of 30 works of art, fashion, sculpture and furniture celebrating local talent that will be exhibited at the Genesis Cinema in October and then donated to the VIVO residents – find out more here.
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Samuel Wilkinson ha pensato le forme di Vessel appositamente per ospitare la Plumen. Quando è illuminata, la tinta del vetro disattiva la luce senza nascondere la forma della lampadina, producendo una riflessione inattesa e irregolare.
Lampada disegnata da Tom Allen per la spagnola Lucirmás. Prodotta con materiali
ecosostenibili, monta una fantastica Plumen 001 lightbulb.
London design brand Hulger has installed a chandelier made from their new Baby Plumen light bulbs in The Changing Room, a former fitting room at Dezeen Super Store.
Hulger worked with lighting designer Chieh Ting to design modular honeycomb-shaped pieces made from one-sided metallic card to reflect the squiggle of light from each bulb.
“We thought the organic shape of the bulbs would create really interesting resonances in a repeating, geometric, cellular structure, when the honeycomb surfaced as an idea,” says Nicolas Roope of Hulger.
The card was laser-cut and scored, then constructed by hand to make the chandelier.
The Changing Room space has previously featured pendant lamps by Naomi Paul, London 2012 Aquatics Centre photographs by Luke Hayes and interlinking tea cups by Fionn Tynan O’Mahony.
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London design brand Hulger has launched a mini version of its award-winning Plumen 001 lightbulb and it’ll be available at Dezeen Super Store from Friday.
Baby Plumen 001 follows the same sculptural form as the original, which was designed in collaboration with Samuel Wilkinson and won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award in 2011.
“The original Plumen has been around for a few years but is difficult to use with some shades,” Hulger cofounder Nik Roope told Dezeen. “The smaller version allows people to interpret it in new ways, either as a naked bulb or in combination with different shade options.”
Like all compact fluorescent lamps, Plumen uses 80% less electricity and lasts eight times longer than an incandescent bulb.
See all of our stories about Plumen here, and more of Samuel Wilkinson’s projects here.
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Here’s some more details from Hulger:
We’re delighted to announce the arrival of our new offspring, the Baby Plumen 001
Following the form of the Original Plumen 001 design, the Baby model shrinks into a more compact format. As either a single element or in series and clusters, the Baby Plumen 001 has all the character and dynamism the original but offers new options for shades and environments. The Baby Plumen 001 works like any other high quality low energy bulb, saving you 80% on your energy bills and lasting 8 times longer than a standard incandescent bulb.
The new compact form gives thousands of new options for shading and accessorising as the proportions work very well with many shades designed for incandescent bulbs. The Baby also works well in combination with the Original Plumen 001 as its forms echo one another, creating beautiful harmonies.
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