Monthly Archives: September 2009

tent digital london: a video from Core77

Check out Core77′s coverage of the Tent Digital show in London.  There is a very cool video showing a variety of interactive video and lighting effects.

tent digital london: a video from Core77

Check out Core77′s coverage of the Tent Digital show in London.  There is a very cool video showing a variety of interactive video and lighting effects.

markbraun

mark braun: pyrus lamp

Mark Braun is  a Berlin designer who has recently shown a molded pulp-paper lamp shade at several design shows. I love how it looks like concrete, yet is thin and light enough to be used as a shade.  This another

markbraun

mark braun: pyrus lamp

Mark Braun is  a Berlin designer who has recently shown a molded pulp-paper lamp shade at several design shows. I love how it looks like concrete, yet is thin and light enough to be used as a shade.  This another

jingrestaurant

jing restaurant

ArchDaily has posted an excellent little restaurant called Jing in Singapore, by architect Antonio Eraso.  I especially love the use of planar light sources, contrasted against the triangulated topography of the suspended ceiling structure.

jingrestaurant

jing restaurant

ArchDaily has posted an excellent little restaurant called Jing in Singapore, by architect Antonio Eraso.  I especially love the use of planar light sources, contrasted against the triangulated topography of the suspended ceiling structure.

Seeper

seeper

Seeper is a UK-based design firm focusing on multi-touch control installations.  You really just have to check out their website and watch the videos…dazzling stuff!

Seeper

seeper

Seeper is a UK-based design firm focusing on multi-touch control installations.  You really just have to check out their website and watch the videos…dazzling stuff!

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interlam wall panel systems

You know you want to:  Go ahead, reach out and touch the walls. Interlam is a Virginia-based fabricator of three-dimensional, cut-to-order wall panels.  Using thick sheets of various fiberboard products, they CNC router-cut panels with a variety of patterns of

interlamTOUCH

interlam wall panel systems

You know you want to:  Go ahead, reach out and touch the walls. Interlam is a Virginia-based fabricator of three-dimensional, cut-to-order wall panels.  Using thick sheets of various fiberboard products, they CNC router-cut panels with a variety of patterns of

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freedom of creation

Freedom  of Creation is an Amsterdam firm that has explored rapid manufacturing techniques for nearly a decade.  FOC launched a series of decorative light fixtures that push the possibilities of the technology: Their pendants, surface mounted fixtures, and table lamps

foc2

freedom of creation

Freedom  of Creation is an Amsterdam firm that has explored rapid manufacturing techniques for nearly a decade.  FOC launched a series of decorative light fixtures that push the possibilities of the technology: Their pendants, surface mounted fixtures, and table lamps

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philips lumiblade

Lumiblade is Philips first major foray into commercial OLED products. In short, Philips is really just selling sample kits right now for design explorations.  The samples are expensive, not very efficient (20 lm/w), and with only 10,000 hours at 50%

hannesKoch_bulb2_650

philips lumiblade

Lumiblade is Philips first major foray into commercial OLED products. In short, Philips is really just selling sample kits right now for design explorations.  The samples are expensive, not very efficient (20 lm/w), and with only 10,000 hours at 50%

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howeler yoon architecture

Howeler Yoon Architecture of Boston has produced several concepts and installations that explore very unique and innovative applications for lighting.

howleryoon_lowrezhifi2

howeler yoon architecture

Howeler Yoon Architecture of Boston has produced several concepts and installations that explore very unique and innovative applications for lighting.

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litracon: light transmitting concrete

LiTraCon is a combination of optical fibers and concrete.  The optical fibers are aligned parallel with each other and perpendicular to the surface, passing the exact light pattern that falls on the outer surface through to the inner surface.

litracon_about2

litracon: light transmitting concrete

LiTraCon is a combination of optical fibers and concrete.  The optical fibers are aligned parallel with each other and perpendicular to the surface, passing the exact light pattern that falls on the outer surface through to the inner surface.

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thin-film light sources

Thin-film light sources have been around for awhile, despite how futuristic they seem to be.  Their adoption has been relatively slow for two reasons:  First, they have fairly limited light ouput, which restricts them to mostly decorative applications.  Second, they

fuseproject- InnerLight_1251918237653

thin-film light sources

Thin-film light sources have been around for awhile, despite how futuristic they seem to be.  Their adoption has been relatively slow for two reasons:  First, they have fairly limited light ouput, which restricts them to mostly decorative applications.  Second, they

minority_report_input_screen

large scale, multi-touch interactive displays

Multi-touch control systems, popularized by Apple’s iPhone, and gesture recognition systems, such as the dazzling computer interface that Tom Cruise used in Minority Report, are slowly-but-surely becoming commonplace technology.  And these üeber control technologies are finding their way into architectural applications.

minority_report_input_screen

large scale, multi-touch interactive displays

Multi-touch control systems, popularized by Apple’s iPhone, and gesture recognition systems, such as the dazzling computer interface that Tom Cruise used in Minority Report, are slowly-but-surely becoming commonplace technology.  And these üeber control technologies are finding their way into architectural applications.