Little Sun would like the world to meet the newest member of our family: Little Sun Charge. It’s a high-performance solar charger for your phone, MP3 player, GoPro and all your other small devices. As seen on Kickstarter last year, we’re now finally introducing the Charge to the world. Stay tuned on all the Charge adventures […]
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Little Sun rises at “Falling Walls”
This text was originally created for Falling Walls Fragments. On the evening of November 8, the Falling Walls conference hosted a festive dinner for over 400 guests. As guests arrived to sit down for dinner, they found a surprise gift at each of their places at the table, sponsored by Trumpf: a little yellow solar […]
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“Light is Life Chain” at L’école Massillon, Paris
What happens when you give a bunch of school kids a little yellow solar lamp? They can feel that this little thing in their hands has a lot of power… …that even though they are little too, they can have a big impact on the future of our planet. In December 2015, during the COP21 […]
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So much sun in Scandinavia
Little Sun has been shining bright in Scandinavia and Iceland since its inception – thanks to our passionate Little Sun following up north, our amazing retailers and of course the Danish-Icelandic heritage of our founder Olafur. Over the years, we’ve created Blackouts at one of the world’s most interesting art museums, Louisiana (Denmark), we’ve opened pop-up shops […]
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“The Bright Night” Project
In October 2015, Johannesburg based creative couple Leigh-Anne and Ross Drakes teamed up with Little Sun in South Africa. Together with Susanne Ewenstein from Little Sun, they created the “The Bright Night Project,” an exhibition that showcased the work of 23 of South Africa’s most talented photographers and illustrators. The exhibition was staged entirely in […]
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Little Sun Shines at KaDeWe
A big highlight of Little Sun’s 2015 #SummerOfSolarLove campaign was being so beautifully and prominently presented by KaDeWe, one of Germany’s best-loved department stores. Throughout June 2015, the iconic store featured a Little Sun window display on Berlin’s shopping boulevard, the Ku’Damm, as well as featuring the lamps within KaDeWe in a colourful pop-up shop. […]
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Little Sun Garden at Roppongi Art Night
A beautiful Little Sun Garden was in full bloom at Roppongi Art Night in Japan on 25–26 April 2015. Launched in 2009, Roppongi Art Night is a one-night, all-night, art extravaganza that celebrates the enjoyment of art in everyday living, and serves as a trailblazing model for local initiatives in the Japanese capital. Staged in […]
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“Little Sun Blackouts” at Louisiana Museum
Every Saturday in December of 2014, Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art invited children and their parents to experience a Little Sun Blackout – where they got to explore Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Riverbed’ exhibition in complete darkness, with only the light of their Little Sun solar lamps to guide them! Says Louise Hauerberg, Head of Boernehuset […]
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Olafur Eliasson’s McDermott Award Residency at MIT
In March 2014 artist and Little Sun founder Olafur Eliasson kicked off his exciting 2014 Eugene McDermott Award residency at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For the next three days, Eliasson collaborated with MIT students on the Little Sun lamp and project — as well as conducted a series of labs and public lectures. Also […]
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