If you ever need a great source of lighting reference images, check out the Awards section of the Association for Retail Environments site. The Awards section is stocked full of many years of award-winning projects, neatly organized and loaded with … Continue reading Association for Retail Environments: Awards Archive
Frank Buchwald is a German designer and manufacturer of creative, retro-futuristic “machine lights”. Handcrafted of steel and brass, with extra-long filament incandescent lamps, the fixtures (machines?) evoke a wonderful era that never really existed. Some of them have an almost … Continue reading Frank Buchwald – Machine Lights
Snog is a small chain in the UK, riding the wave of “unsweetened” frozen yogurt shops. The difference is in their store design. Their latest store, Snog Soho, includes a fantastic ceiling composed of 700 color-changing glass pendants, backed up with some incandescent lighting. Cinimod Studio was the UK-based lighting designer, and details on the custom lighting tech can be found at e-luminate. Continue reading snog london
Check out this New York based installation artist, Erwin Redl. Amazing LED-based installations. His site is loaded with trippy eye candy. Very creative use of the possibilities of LED technology. References: Trendhunter, Paramedia Continue reading Erwin Redl
Many times, the best way to see the future of your profession is to look to other professions. Microsoft Office Labs, with their “Envisioning” series of videos, present a stunning take on the future of office, education and other environments. … Continue reading seeing the future: Microsoft Office Labs
I had the opportunity to walk the many, many floors of Chicago’s gigantic Merchandise Mart for the recent NeoCon trade show. While definitely focused on furniture and fabrics, the show offered some stunning showrooms with lots of lighting inspiration. Check out the original post on blog.lampartners.com. Continue reading Lightspotting: Neocon 2009
Now this is what I call “intelligent lighting”: The Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab has developed the prototype AUR: a Robotic Desk Lamp. With full motion robotic arm, color changing light source and mechanical iris as a winking/blinking “eye”, this has to be the most, umm, expressive desk lamp since Pixar’s Luxo Jr.
Welcome to the first post on Lucept. Lucept is being started with grand ambitions: At first, this will be a blog dedicated to contemporary lighting with a special focus on forward-looking lighting trends. Eventually, we hope Lucept will grow into something … Continue reading Welcome to Lucept
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