If you ever need a great source of lighting reference images, check out the Awards section of the Association for Retail Environments site.
The Awards section is stocked full of many years of award-winning projects, neatly organized and loaded with lots of great imagery. I’ve wound up using many of these as reference images in project boards for non-retail related projects.
Frank Buchwald is a German designer and manufacturer of creative, retro-futuristic “machine lights”.
Handcrafted of steel and brass, with extra-long filament incandescent lamps, the fixtures (machines?) evoke a wonderful era that never really existed. Some of them have an almost creature-like quality to them…and they look like they could give Pixar’s Luxo Jr. a real beating if they ever got into a bar fight.
Snog is a small chain in the UK, riding the wave of “unsweetened” frozen yogurt shops. The difference is in their store design. Their latest store, Snog Soho, includes a fantastic ceiling composed of 700 color-changing glass pendants, backed up with some incandescent lighting.
Cinimod Studio was the UK-based lighting designer, and details on the custom lighting tech can be found at e-luminate.
