Prior to illustrating design with words in Helvetica, I used a pencil and drew ideas. Although someday I may revisit the medium of my creative roots, the analysis and interpretation of design through interior decorating, architectural projects, and just plain admiring sets the tone for our future. Thanks to the critical minds of StyleFactory, this elaborate field has been transformed into one where all of us – no matter what our occupation – can play a role in the end result.

Dubbot Light. Designed by Steve Haulenbeek.

Today, the Dubbot Light by Steve Haulenbeek needs your vote. Currently in patent-pending mode, this innovative design (and many others) anxiously await your feedback on StyleFactory to determine their fate: just a light bulb idea or the future light in your home?

Made from post-consumer recycled polypropylene, the Dubbot Light is a module that can function independently as a pendant lamp, or many modules that together become a chandelier of sorts, using Haulenbeek’s system of snaps that attach as however many suit your fancy. So you can add, subtract, break down, transport, and rebuild your Dubbot Light without worrying over a dented lampshade.

Unlike the lamp that can magically come apart, Steven Haulenbeek could be described as solid. Quite frankly, he is in class all his own. With a Master of Fine Arts in Designed Objects from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a humble mantra dedicated to greening the planet, and a long list of awards, you might think his talents cross superhuman boundaries. On the contrary, Haulenbeek’s down-to-earth, witty dedication to spritely concepts – like the Paraseat that “feeds off of” your bus post – demonstrate that he can be all of the above. According to his website, “The objects that I create are made for people, derived from people, and are imbued with significance and personality.”

The stylish Dubbot Light received the 2009 Best in Show and Best Green Design awards at the Modern + Design + Function competition, presented by Design Within Reach earlier this year. And even though Haulenbeek isn’t exactly sure which configuration of Dubbot Lights he likes best, he’d like to see it become “a sort of wandering branch-like shape with lines that form Ys and keep going to form more Ys”. With your help, let’s see if it can reach its budding potential.

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StyleFactory is an online destination that combines the world of quality design objects with the passion of the community in order to decide which products will be made. For fresh designs and their creators, the site provides a forum for designers to present design ideas to the online community for feedback. On StyleFactory, you’ll experience the realistic function, design, story and background of the objects so you can decide which products to vote on. From that, StyleFactory takes the feedback from user's votes and comments and helps them get manufactured using as little of a carbon footprint as humanly possible.