Playful light design with a point: intuitively visualizing energy use

"The Light Drop is supposed to make people think about how we are

dealing with our natural resources, in this particular case, the water,

which is the main source of energy for every living organism in this

fantastic world. Water is energy indeed."

This wall-mounted lighting element illuminates the custom-molded polycarbonate bulb with an embedded, dimmable LED in the faucet, which is intuitively controlled by the tap -- the more you twist, the more light you get -- which also serve to illustrate to contextualize energy use (though at a greatly reduced rate, compared to an incandescent  version of the same design).This design by Rafael Morgan, from Brazil-based International Design Studios, won the Third Prize in the Bright LED International Design Competition, by Design Boom  and Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea, which was founded in 1995 in memory of spirits of civil uprising of the 1980 repression of the Gwangju Democratization Movement.  Almost 3,500 designers from 92 different countries have participated in the design competition. The Light Drop currently being sold and produced by Wever & Ducre