Developed for the iHome brand (iHL12) through Checkolite International, released 2008.
A desk speaker lamp with built-in iPod dock and three-point adjustable structure, designed for Checkolite's iHome licensed product line and released in 2008 as part of the second iHome lamp series I led for Checkolite.
The design reduces the lamp to three simple round forms connected by slender poles: a base, a mid-joint, and a head. The base sits fixed on the desk, holding the dock and speaker; the mid-joint pivots to tilt the upper pole forward or back; and the lamp head both rotates and adjusts up and down, giving the user fine control over where the light is directed. The reduction was deliberate, working within the minimal-element vocabulary that defined Apple's design language at the time. The lamp built its identity from a few clean geometric shapes rather than a single sculpted housing. Colorways matched the iPod nano palette of the time, including silver, blue, pink, and black, so each lamp could pair directly to its owner's device, carrying the iHome program's consistent Apple-ecosystem logic.
Released through Best Buy, Toys "R" Us, Bed Bath & Beyond, and other retailers, and still available across resale marketplaces today.