Australian architects ClarkeHopkinsClarke have generated a fun concept rendering for an “interactive library wall” made out of iPads. The concept as literally expressed is impractical, but the idea is clearly supporting a trend for future architectural systems: A unitized, tiled, interactive media wall, that is at once controlled as a homogenous unit or as individual zones of interactivity. Reminds me of my MArch thesis, way back from 2000.
via Gizmodo
Adam Brackney is a designer in Minneapolis with a small storefront called Workerman. He has for sale a refreshingly simple pendant: A walnut block, Edison socket, and retro carbon-filament incandescent A-lamp. Ahhhh….the good old days.
Incandescence: We Salute You!
via NotCot.org
Jason Brooks is a London-based graphic illustrator that has done work with numerous companies across the genres of fashion, lifestyle, and interiors. Besides making me wish I was a young, rich and fabulous hipster-globe-trotting-party-animal, his illustrations are fantastic lighting inspiration: They just ooze luminosity and sparkle from every pixel.
Oh yah…time to brush up on my Photoshop/Illustrator skills!
WET Design, the designers and fabricators of the most bad-ass fountains ever, have a snazzy new full-screen Flash website that includes a new video of the Dubai Fountain.
6,600 submerged lights, 25 color projectors, hundreds of submerged robotically-controlled nozzles and enough compressed air to at once blow 22,000 gallons of water as high as 500 feet sure do make for an impressive video.
Here’s a fantastic slide show of illuminated ceilings throughout history. Modern-era projects start at about 2:30 into the video.
“The aesthetic of luminous ceilings: From the image of heaven to dynamic light.”
By Thomas Schielke, via Arch Daily.
