Device with backlit colored display and method of manufacture

A backlit device for displaying an image having variable colors, comprising:

• a substrate having a front side and a rear side, the front side comprising a front relief and the rear side comprising a corresponding sunken-relief aligned with the front relief;
• a front layer plated, printed, painted, or laminated on the front side of the substrate and covering the front relief to form one or more three-dimensional (3D) figurative shapes of one or more first colors;
• and
• a rear layer attached to the rear side of the substrate at the sunken-relief, the rear layer comprising one or more shapes of second colors corresponding to and being aligned with the one or more 3D figurative shapes;
• wherein the substrate and rear layer are light-transmissive and the front layer is semi-light-transmissive and semi-reflective, such that the front layer
• appears opaque and conceals the rear layer when the rear layer is unilluminated by backlighting, thus displaying a 3D image of the one or more 3D figurative shapes in the one or more first colors;
• but
• is light-transmissive when the rear layer is backlit, thus allowing coloring of the 3D image by the second colors of the rear layer.

A lampshade comprising:

• a first layer having a front side and a rear side, the first layer being light-transmissive and providing a first image of a first color visible on the lampshade;
• a second layer attached indirectly to the first layer at the rear side of the first layer, the second layer being light-transmissive and comprising a pattern of second colors for coloring the first image;
• a third layer between the first layer and the second layer, wherein the third layer has a third color and is semi-light-transmissive and semi-reflective such that the third layer
• appears opaque and conceals the second layer when the second layer is unilluminated by backlighting, thus providing a visible background in the third color for the first image in a displayed image, but
• appears light-transmissive when the second layer is backlit by backlighting, to allow coloring of the first image by the pattern of the second colors of the second layer in the displayed image.