L A M P

L A M P Submissions NOW OPEN for L A M P 2026! Deadline October 1st. www.lampthecompetition.com

L A M P aims to introduce a broader audience to lighting design while promoting and connecting emerging talents to new markets. Each year the competition challenges designers to approach their lighting fixtures with the guidance of a theme. Competition Finalists from around the world are showcased at the L A M P Opening Reception in Vancouver, BC.

2024 Student Pendant and Sconce Category Winner: LYFT by Roman FreynhoferLYFT is a minimalist luminaire designed to bala...
08/26/2026

2024 Student Pendant and Sconce Category Winner:
LYFT by Roman Freynhofer

LYFT is a minimalist luminaire designed to balance functionality, durability, and environmental responsibility. The goal was to create a versatile lighting solution that blends into various settings, particularly as a reading light, while ensuring easy repair and long-term sustainability. The innovative cable clamp, inspired by elevator technology, integrates height adjustment and power delivery into a single cable, simplifying the design. By avoiding the use of glue or solder, LYFT can be easily disassembled, repaired, and maintained. The Dim2Warm feature allows users to customize the lighting ambiance by smoothly shifting between cool and warm light. LYFT's design minimizes material waste and supports eco-friendly practices, promoting a longer product life cycle and reducing electronic waste.

Roman Freynhoferdesigncraft
Michelbach, Austria

2024 Overall Student and Portable Category Winner: Entracte by Mathilde PielThe word Entracte means 'between acts'. This...
08/25/2026

2024 Overall Student and Portable Category Winner:
Entracte by Mathilde Piel

The word Entracte means 'between acts'. This interlude occurred in the middle of a theater piece and was originally used to replace the candles to ensure decent lighting during the whole performance. The length of an act was determined by the time it took for the candles to melt, the height of the flame regarding the candle stick indicated the time that remained. The Entracte lamp is inspired by this experience and aims to use light as a means of embodying and visualizing time. A light bulb can be slid along a rod to set it at the desired height corresponding to a duration between 3 hours and 10 minutes. As time passes, the bulb will move down to the handle. Entracte is designed to accompany you in your daily activities, encouraging you to be aware of the present moment and the time passing around you.

Mathilde Piel

Paris, France / London, United Kingdom

2024 Professional Portable Category Winner: B Light by Alex Touguet / ALT DesignThe B Light lamp has been designed to be...
08/19/2026

2024 Professional Portable Category Winner:
B Light by Alex Touguet / ALT Design

The B Light lamp has been designed to be entirely 3D printed, with the latest technological advances and more environmentally friendly materials such as PLA or PETG. Our goal is to be able to offer an industrial quality product that is made to order, in order to avoid overproduction, waste and stock management. With this lamp, we want to prove to the world that another way of producing is now possible, even on technical products integrating electronics. Additive manufacturing has the particularity of producing little waste. We went further by developing a design which, thanks to a clever combination of filaments and supportless printing, allows us to use 100% of the raw material, without waste.

Alex Touguet / ALT Design

Nantes, France

We are excited to share that Chiara Ripalti is joining this year’s L A M P judging panel.IKEA Chiara Ripalti is a Produc...
08/15/2026

We are excited to share that Chiara Ripalti is joining this year’s L A M P judging panel.

IKEA

Chiara Ripalti is a Product Developer at IKEA of Sweden, where she leads lighting product development from initial strategic planning and design creation to production.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Product Design and a Master’s degree in Design Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

With more than 20 years of experience in design and product development, Chiara has built her career at the intersection of creativity, innovation, and industrialization.

Over the past decade at IKEA, she has focused on developing lighting products, translating design visions into products that combine innovation, functionality, and accessibility.

Among the projects she has contributed to are VARMBLIXT, BÄCKNATE, STOCKHOLM and the recently launched IKEA PS Floor Lamp and IKEA PS Table Lamp.

Chiara’s lighting work has been recognized with a Red Dot Design Award and an iF Design Award, and she has been nominated for the prestigious Compasso d’Oro Award.

She believes that the positive impact lighting has on atmosphere, emotion, and well-being should be accessible to the many, without compromising on aesthetics, innovation, or attention to detail.

As a juror, she brings a global perspective shaped by extensive experience in concept design and product development, a passion for meaningful innovation, and an understanding of people’s everyday needs.

She values creative ideas that challenge conventions and demonstrate the potential to create meaningful impact.

SUBMIT TO L A M P 2026

Open worldwide to active professionals in art, design and architecture, and to post-secondary design or arts students enrolled during 2025/26 or 2026/27. Individuals, teams and manufacturers can enter.

Choose Professional or Student, then Floor, Table, Pendant or Sconce. Added recognition includes portable, outdoor, acoustic, smart, solar, sustainable, handmade and sculptural work.

Enter online through the link in bio. Early Bird: August 15. Regular: October 1. Late: October 15.

Next on the L A M P 2026 judging panel: Joseph Grima.josephgrima Space Caviar ALCOVA Design Academy EindhovenJoseph Grim...
08/15/2026

Next on the L A M P 2026 judging panel: Joseph Grima.

josephgrima Space Caviar ALCOVA Design Academy Eindhoven

Joseph Grima is an architect, writer and curator based in Milan, Italy. He is the Creative Director of Design Academy Eindhoven and cofounder of Space Caviar, an architecture and research practice operating at the intersection of design, technology, critical theory and the public realm. In 2017, together with Valentina Ciuffi, he founded Alcova, an independent platform for future-oriented design which has today become one of the most visited destinations of the Milan Design Week.

Grima was previously the editor-in-chief of Domus magazine and director of Storefront for Art and Architecture, an independent gallery in New York City. In 2014 he was appointed co-curator of the first Chicago Architecture Biennial, and in 2012 co-directed the first Istanbul Design Biennial. He is also the artistic director of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019.

He has taught and lectured widely at universities in Europe, Asia and America, including Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, and has served on numerous international juries, including the jury of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010 directed by Kazuyo Sejima.

SUBMIT TO L A M P 2026

Open worldwide to active professionals in art, design and architecture, and to post-secondary design or arts students enrolled during 2025/26 or 2026/27. Individuals, teams and manufacturers can enter.

Choose Professional or Student, then Floor, Table, Pendant or Sconce. Added recognition includes portable, outdoor, acoustic, smart, solar, sustainable, handmade and sculptural work.

Enter online through the link in bio. Early Bird: August 15. Regular: October 1. Late: October 15.

L A M P 2026 judge spotlight: Valentina Ciuffi. Studio Vedèt ALCOVACurator, creative consultant and writer specialized ...
08/15/2026

L A M P 2026 judge spotlight: Valentina Ciuffi.
Studio Vedèt ALCOVA

Curator, creative consultant and writer specialized in design, architecture and art. She studied semiotics with Umberto Eco at the University of Bologna. Beginning her career as a journalist, she has written about design and architecture for numerous publications such as Apartamento, Vogue, Dezeen, TL Magazine, D/ La Repubblica, Il Sole24ore, Living / Corriere, La Stampa, Klat, and Rodeo. For 10 years she was a member of the editorial staff at Abitare magazine under the direction of Stefano Boeri, where she wrote a monograph on the then emergent phenomenon Bjarke Ingels.

In 2016 she founded her own Creative Direction agency, Studio Vedèt.

At Studio Vedèt, Valentina works with a team of graphic designers, writers and web developers to provide design and creative strategies for companies and institutions. Operating as a design consultancy, curatorial agency and creative office, Vedèt has a range of clients including design and art galleries, fairs, festivals, design companies and start-ups.

In 2017 she co-founded Alcova, a platform for independent design that operates as an itinerant network of unconventional and ephemeral exhibition spaces in and around Milan. Following exhibitions at the Salone di Mobile, Alcova was credited as “the” space for emerging design” by The New York Times T Magazine and Wallpaper renamed the NOLO neighborhood in which it was held as the “Alcova Design District”.

SUBMIT TO L A M P 2026

Open worldwide to active professionals in art, design and architecture, and to post-secondary design or arts students enrolled during 2025/26 or 2026/27. Individuals, teams and manufacturers can enter.

Choose Professional or Student, then Floor, Table, Pendant or Sconce. Added recognition includes portable, outdoor, acoustic, smart, solar, sustainable, handmade and sculptural work.

Enter online through the link in bio. Early Bird: August 15. Regular: October 1. Late: October 15.

Meet Lukas Peet, also re-joining the judging panel for the L A M P 2026 edition.Lukas Peet A-N-DLukas Peet practices his...
08/15/2026

Meet Lukas Peet, also re-joining the judging panel for the L A M P 2026 edition.
Lukas Peet A-N-D

Lukas Peet practices his discipline with sophistication and fluidity that bears the mark of a Design Academy Eindhoven alumnus.

He has been recognized internationally in a number of awards and competitions, most notably as the winner of Canada’s Emerging Designer Award.

To A-N-D, Lukas brings a vast curiosity about objects, processes, materials, and production techniques; he brings a desire to challenge the familiar and the normative, and everything in between.

SUBMIT TO L A M P 2026

Open worldwide to active professionals in art, design and architecture, and to post-secondary design or arts students enrolled during 2025/26 or 2026/27. Individuals, teams and manufacturers can enter.

Choose Professional or Student, then Floor, Table, Pendant or Sconce. Added recognition includes portable, outdoor, acoustic, smart, solar, sustainable, handmade and sculptural work.

Enter online through the link in bio. Early Bird: August 15. Regular: October 1. Late: October 15.

We are thrilled to introduce a returning judge for L A M P 2026: Omer ArbelOmer Arbel BocciOmer Arbel is the co-founder ...
08/15/2026

We are thrilled to introduce a returning judge for L A M P 2026: Omer Arbel
Omer Arbel Bocci

Omer Arbel is the co-founder and creative director of Bocci, and the founder of Omer Arbel Office (OAO). His work spans buildings, lighting, objects, and installations, rooted in a sustained investigation into materials and light as a medium.

Arbel trained under Enric Miralles in Barcelona and Patkau Architects in Vancouver before establishing OAO in 2003. His built work includes House 75.9 (winner of the World Architecture Festival Award in 2019), Bridge House 91 suspended between two rocky ridges over a fern gully in British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, and Governors Point, a 16-home community on a protected coastal peninsula in Washington State. Large-scale installations from Bocci have been on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Barbican, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

SUBMIT TO L A M P 2026

Open worldwide to students & professionals in art, design and architecture.

Main Categories are: Floor, Table, Pendant or Sconce. Added recognition includes portable, outdoor, acoustic, smart, solar, sustainable, handmade and sculptural work.

Enter online through the link in bio. Early Bird: August 15. Regular: October 1. Late: October 15.

08/15/2026

Meet the 2026 L A M P judging panel.

Omer Arbel is the co-founder and creative director of . His work spans architecture, lighting, objects and large-scale installations.

Lukas Peet is a designer, co-owner and creative director of , known for his curiosity about materials, processes and production.

Valentina Ciuffi is a curator, writer and creative consultant, founder of and co-founder of .milano.

Joseph Grima is an architect, writer and curator, and co-founder of and .milano.

Chiara Ripalti is a Lighting Product Developer at , with more than 20 years of experience connecting creative ideas, innovation and industrial production.

We’re very happy to have these five perspectives at the table for L A M P 2026.

Tomorrow, August 15, is the Early Bird deadline. Submit through the link in bio.

2024 Professional Outdoor Category Winner: SPIKE by Ricardo Silva, Susana Rafael, Catarina Felix - iLAPSPIKE is a lumina...
08/13/2026

2024 Professional Outdoor Category Winner:
SPIKE by Ricardo Silva, Susana Rafael, Catarina Felix - iLAP

SPIKE is a luminaire designed for outdoor gardens with the aim of illuminating small shrubs and plants. Installed on the ground using a spike, it can be configured to feature 1, 2 or 3 adjustable spotlights, at the customer's discretion. Each spotlight is independent and has an anti-displacement mechanism so that it stays in the desired position under adverse wind, impact or rain conditions. Its simple, functional and elegant design allows it to blend in with the environment during the day and bring the garden to life at night. Built from CNC-milled aluminum with an electrostatic powder-coat finish, the SPIKE spotlight is equipped with high-quality power LEDs, and optics with a range of beam angles that provide narrow, medium or close light emissions with low glare. The use of stainless steel cable glands and rubber cables ensures a high level of water tightness.

Ricardo Silva, Susana Rafael, Catarina Felix - iLAP

Alenquer, Portugal

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