PICTOPHANE

Your photograph,
made into light.

Your favourite photographs become a softly glowing spherical lamp.

Bring a phone near the top to open the message and voice you saved with it.

4,980JPY incl. tax

Free shipping
A spherical Pictophane with a photograph glowing through its surface
Diameter
Approx. 12cm
Photos
Up to 6
Power
3 AAA batteries

Light reveals the memory.

The photograph is translated into the sphere’s thickness rather than printed. Unlit, it is a white sculpture. Lit, the image appears softly from within.

Pictophane unlit
Unlit
Pictophane lit
Lit

Keep the voice a photograph cannot hold.

Bring a phone near the small chip at the top. A message card opens and plays the audio you saved.

An NFC-compatible phone and internet connection are required.

A message card opened by bringing a phone near the top of the sphere

Make one now, with your own photographs.

Choose photographs. Arrange them on the sphere. Check the result in 3D. Adjust the layout, frames, background and scale on the web.

  1. Choose photographs
  2. Arrange the sphere
  3. Check in 3D
Create with your photos
The web-based 3D preview

How to order

  1. Purchase on Creema

  2. Create your piece on this site

  3. Send the piece ID in a Creema message

We begin making the lamp after confirming the purchase and piece ID.

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A Pictophane glowing beside a bed

A memory to hold,
a voice to keep.

Make a one-of-a-kind lamp from your photographs.

¥4,980 incl. tax|Free shipping in Japan

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