Creative media agency Antilop, based in Istanbul, has produced a spectacular art/branding installation for Coca Cola in India. The installation is a simple three wall room, but with high-def and very powerful front projections, using 7 Barco projectors. The content … Continue reading when walls dematerialize into video
Nice triangulated pendants hand made via a simple mold (plastic sheet scribed, bent randomly and folded) and water-based quick cure resin by artist Phil Cuttance. See the full post from Core77. Continue reading “faceture” pendants
At CES 2012, Samsung introduced an amazing 46″ LCD transparent television with touch controls. My office of the future will definitely have one of these. Check out Core77’s post about it. Continue reading samsung’s transparent LCD “window” display
Bocci is a design firm in Vancouver, Canada with a couple lines of decorative pendants. Very nice photography…clearly, they love depth of field…or lack thereof. Continue reading bocci
Lalvani Studio explores morphogenomics as used in sculputure and architecture. Check out Haresh Lalvani’s TEDx Talk. The pieces in the pictures here are made in collaboration with the metal shop Milgo Bufkin. Continue reading lighting inspiration: lalvani studio
Via the site The Inspiration Grid: “Ephemera” Photo Series by Mark Laita, a photographer based in Culver City, California. “Color, form and movement captured in a vessel of water after drops of colored dyes are introduced.” Continue reading lighting inspiration: emphemera photo series
No wonder James Bond likes Aston Martin cars: It must be the lighting when you pick up the car. Wired has a great post about how Aston Martin builds their $1.7m One-77 supercar in a laboratory-clean facility. But the part I … Continue reading aston martin’s OLED room
Atmospheric Optics is a cool site showcasing all of Mother Nature’s delightful anomolys in the sky. The site has terrific simulations and detailed explanations about how the optical effects work, such as the classic crepuscular rays above. Although it is … Continue reading atmospheric optics
According to Wikipedia, “bokeh” is the photography term meaning “the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” The website Digital Photography School has some … Continue reading lighting inspiration: bokeh
Cool Hunting has a post about a new project Leo Villareal is trying to raise funds for: Adding dynamic lighting to the vertical cables of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The Bay Lights from Words Pictures Ideas on Vimeo. Continue reading leo villareal: san francisco bay bridge
Department stores’ holiday windows are often amazing little worlds in and of themselves, filled with color, sparkle, animation and humor. I was particularly caught by some of the windows at the French department store Printemps, designed by Karl Lagerfeld. via … Continue reading lighting inspiration: printemps department store windows by karl lagerfeld
Philips Design has an interesting demonstration project called the “Microbial Home” that explores the use of methane gas and other natural end-to-end processes throughout the home. As one part of the project, Philips proposes a lighting fixture that uses methane gas to … Continue reading philips microbial home + biolight project
SolidSmack has an interesting article about the “Chrysalis Project” on Kickstarter, an effort by architect/programming experimenter Chris Chalmers. To summarize the article, Chris is developing an export function from Rhino’s Grasshopper add-on, to allow designers to export parametric models — and their … Continue reading chrysalis project
Windscreen was a temporary installation at MIT by Howeler+Yoon Architects from Boston. Straight from their site: “Windscreen creates an exterior screeen composed of an array of small-scale, vertical axis wind turbines. The spinning of these turbines self-powers their integral lighting, providing … Continue reading windscreen
Via Inhabitat, here is an interesting design thesis concept from Meidad Marzan, who proposes a solar shading system consisting of servo-controlled rotating panels with photovoltaic panels on one side and OLED panels on the other. They charge during the day, … Continue reading student concept: urban tiles
I love this street-front entrance to the below-grade Sephora store at the Rue de Rivoli in Paris. The pendants are made out of translucent red plastic with a frosted texture. Coupled with the cool white luminous walls, it totally looks … Continue reading sephora’s laser blasters
At the Quai Branly Museum in Paris (itself in a very cool building by Jean Nouvel), I saw this awesome luminous wall in the temporary Maori exhibit. It is a simple design, a stick-framed box faced with 1/4″ MDF panels that were … Continue reading quai branly museum — maori exhibition lighting wall
Even though Microsoft goes and kills off the one product that actually looked like something from the future, at least they keep releasing awesome concept videos from their “Future Vision” series, offering a peak at what “technology may look like in 5-10 … Continue reading microsoft’s awesome vision of the future…again
Via Cool Hunter, I stumbled across Ango, a small company in Thailand that uses unique materials to great effect, including raw silk cocoons, rattan, hand soldered wire cages, and hand built-up polymer substrates. Sounds labor intensive, but the end results … Continue reading ango
Check out this stylish glowing acrylic chair. Sexy design…LEDs concealed in the outer bezel firing back into etched acrylic. From the UK design company Rosseau. via TrendHunter Continue reading glowing bubble chair
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