Lux Magazine published an excellent video, shot at Lightfair, containing interviews with numerous North American lighting leaders discussing the status and future of LEDs. An impressive list, the interviewees are: Gary Feather, VP, LED lighting, Sharp Electronics Menko Deroos, CEO … Continue reading lux magazine video: lighting leaders discuss LEDs
Via Inhabitat, this interesting pendant concept caught my eye, from Dutch design firm MOOOI. I really like the organic, biomimetic feeling of the product, made possible by the use of lots and lots of LED’s married directly to diffusers. According … Continue reading moooi’s heracleum
A cool design concept called Ecco Luce from industrial designer Jonas Samson, who I last posted about in 2009. Ecco Luce is a personalized light wall. I created this new and unique way to intergrate led-lights in a wall. Switched … Continue reading ecco luce
The allure of integrating lighting into decorative wall surfaces continues to stimulate designers. Two design firms, Ingo Maurer and Meystyle, offer creative techniques for integrating LEDs into wallpaper installations. Via Inhabitat, London-based Meystyle is led by two sisters who do … Continue reading LED wallpaper
Available in 4 parts via YouTube, here is a great BBC special featuring the reopening of the Rijksmuseum, hosted by Andrew Graham-Dixon. Although this video doesn’t specifically address the lighting, I highly recommend it. The entire collection is illuminated by … Continue reading rijksmuseum: BBC special
A little eye-candy to inspire your concept renderings: Via Behance, I found these gorgeous nighttime images by German photographer Jakob Wagner. Continue reading jakob wagner photography
A crazy, totally sci-fi, yet very real Kickstarter project that is looking to splice bio-luminescence genes into plants to create glowing plants. This is great research: Radical, visionary, and a completely different way of thinking about how we live. It is … Continue reading glowing plants
Via Gizmodo, a cool little design company called Emerging Objects that is exploring alternative natural materials such as wood pulp, clay, and salt for use in 3D printing technologies. Continue reading emerging objects
Here’s a cool concept via Core77 , one for all the real estate developers/urban designers/trade show booth designers out there: Taking a 1:1000 scale urban model and using projection mapping to create some wicked cool visuals. The project, called the Tokyo … Continue reading urban model projection mapping
DBM Reflex is a Canadian company that specializes in optical moldings for the automotive industry, specifically tail-lights. The design in some of these light pipes is amazingly complex and precise. So I ask: If Richard Kelly were alive today, what … Continue reading dbm reflex
Via DesignBoom, a Renault concept car developed by Ross Lovegrove that was just launched in Milan. I’m not saying that I particularly like this as a car per se, but I love the future-take on using integral textures of light. … Continue reading renault twin ‘z concept by ross lovegrove
Throughout the galleries of the Rijksmuseum, there is a noticeable perception of visual clarity in the lighting. Two key factors, which are often not considered during the specification process, resulted in this success: Crisp shadows and the consistent, matched spectral … Continue reading rijksmuseum: crisp and consistent
Here is a collection of Rijksmuseum images I captured at the end of the project, throughout the myriad of different galleries. Visiting the Rijksmuseum is a delight because of the variety of spaces and rich mixture of artwork contained within … Continue reading rijksmuseum: image library
On April 13, 2013, the enormous Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands and one of the largest and most prominent museums in the world, is reopening after a massive ten-year, €375m renovation. I will state my personal enthusiasm for the … Continue reading rijksmuseum: the future of LED lighting has arrived
As I covered previously, Audi has been creating some fabulous new headlight designs. This round, they are exploiting one of the more exciting aspects of LED technology: The ability to use redundant LEDs within a single fixture to create something I … Continue reading audi matrix headlights
In February I presented “The Next Evolution of Lighting” at the 2013 Strategies In Light conference, held at Santa Clara, California, the heart of Silicon Valley. I specifically submitted to Strategies in Light because it has a strong focus on the … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: LEDs Magazine
In the future…there will be no veiling glare. This fun vision of the future has been out for a couple years, but I just came across it. Very much in line with Microsoft’s Future Vision series, Corning presents some very … Continue reading a day made of glass
A heartwarming TED Talk about Richard Turere, a young Kenyan boy who invented a lighting system for living peacefully with lions: Richard Turere is a young Maasai man who lives in the wilderness of the Kenya savanna, on the edge … Continue reading richard turere’s lion lights
Wow! What an image! An incredible rendering found on a Behance.net project page by Jon Bailey. Continue reading y[our-s]ukkah
Are you a lighting person afraid of shadows? Beaten down by endless lighting calculations and feeling like a code compliance zombie? Then find some inspiration in the exquisite visual art from Gabriel Zambrano, the graphic designer aka Greyfaced, on either … Continue reading greyfaced
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