The best desk lamp

Modern home office room with laptop computer and one of the best desk lamps
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If you're looking for the best desk lamp to kit out your home office or studio, then we can help. Picking the right light for your desk is incredibly important. Not only should you pick a lamp that will suit the overall aesthetics of your room, ensuring you have a peaceful and inspiring haven to be creative in, but you'll also want a lamp that gives you the right amount of light to work by.

Too little light, and you could risk straining your eyes, while too much light can also be uncomfortable. As a creative professional, you'll want ideal lighting conditions to view your work to ensure it looks its best with accurate colours, contrast and more - something that's hard to do if the lighting isn't right. To help you on your search, whether it's a budget IKEA desk lamp or a premium design, we've listed the best lamps for desks and tables, and have scoured online guides and reviews to help pick the very best, and coolest, lamps for all kinds of uses and styles.

Beren Neale
Ecom Editor

Beren has worked on creative titles at Future Publishing for over 13 years. Cutting his teeth as Staff Writer on the digital art magazine ImagineFX, he moved on to edit several creative titles, and is currently the Ecommerce Editor on the most effective creative website in the world. When he's not testing and reviewing the best ergonomic office chairs, phones, laptops, TVs, monitors and various types of storage, he can be found finding and comparing the best deals on the tech that creatives value the most.

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