foscarini’s digital tunnel

I just picked this up from Foscarini’s website:  As part of their “Inside” installation for Milan Design Week back in April, Foscarini created a tunnel with digital projections on the walls and ceiling.  Check out the videos on their site.

the problem with reps and distributors

This a great quote, nicknamed “The Shirky Principal,” attributed to Clay Shirky. “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” If lighting reps (or better yet, the actual manufacturers) simply posted lighting costs and markups

ny times: vintage light bulbs are hot

The NY Times has a piece on the resurgance in popularity over the past decade of Ye Olde Filament Bulb. I especially love that the conclusion of the article is to use candles!  I often remind people that LED hotshot

Flexible OLED screens: for real

Ecouterre posted a very interesting piece on Sony’s development efforts for flexible OLED.  Such “wearable” concepts for OLED screens have, frankly, been around forever and are getting quite tired, but what is notable is the embedded video finally showing an