Tom Dixon‘s introverted 2010 designs of the Etch Brass light and the Etch Candle Holder will come in two new colors this year. Not only is this great news, but the family of Etch lights will let their new Etch Web light into the wild. This most recent webbed addition is different – much more extroverted – with a brighter effect and larger surface area. Casting its large, 65 cm diameter design of thin, geometric webbing out for the world to see, the new 2012 edition of the Etch Web pendant lamp is utterly dynamic.

Etch Light Web. Designed by Tom Dixon.

Geometric, Webbed Aluminum Cuts a Modern Shadow with the Etch Light Web by Tom Dixon.

The British designer writes of his latest suspended bulb, “Etch Light Web is a vast 65cm wide shade with an unusual open structure, design to cast atmospheric angular shadows when lit.” While the first two Etch pieces were made from brass and flat pack ready, the Etch Light Web is made using copper anodized aluminum that has undergone a digital photo-acid etching process. Within the webbed shade, an oversized LED bulb is suspended.

While still ultra light and airy, Dixon doesn’t mention whether the lightweight, 980 gram shade is made for flat pack shipping like the 2010 Etch family. Instead, the focus is on its scientific properties, saying how it was “another experiment in our long running exploration of mathematics and geometry, an irregular pentagon shape is repeated 60 times across the body to create a total sphere.”

Beautiful shadows stretch out across every inch of surface area surrounding the Etch Light Web that will launch as part of the Luminosity showcase held at MOST during Milan’s design week 2012.

via Contemporist.

About the Designer: Tom Dixon was established in 2002 as a British design and manufacturing company of lighting and furniture. The company has boomed over the past decade with their knowing commitment to the up-and-coming with a smart mission to revive the British furniture industry (which many believe they’ve single-handedly done). Each year a new collection is released – like new versions of the Etch light family in this case – that is then distributed and sold in over 60 countries worldwide.