Suomu Lighting is a Helsinki startup integrating LED pixel strips into architectural surface systems. For sure, a low-resolution video display is nothing new, but anything helping architects bridge the gap between raw pixel hardware and complete-architectural surface is always welcome. … Continue reading suomu lighting
Will Neri Oxman will be able to scale PHA in 3D printing? I don’t know, but I find it brilliantly simple how her design office OXMAN is using a variety of 3D printing nozzles – some more akin to pastry … Continue reading oxman 3D printed shoes
Way back in ’23, I was trying to scrounge up some freelance design projects and pitched several architectural and decorative lighting manufacturers. It turned out to be a hot AI summer, where I generated ideas for over a dozen product lines built on hundreds … Continue reading hot AI summer, part 4: glass swirls
Way back in ’23, I was trying to scrounge up some freelance design projects and pitched several architectural and decorative lighting manufacturers. It turned out to be a hot AI summer, where I generated ideas for over a dozen product … Continue reading hot AI summer, part 3: filamento
Way back in ’23, I was trying to scrounge up some freelance design projects and pitched several architectural and decorative lighting manufacturers. It turned out to be a hot AI summer, where I generated ideas for over a dozen product … Continue reading hot AI summer, part 2: beverly hills chic
Way back in ’23, I was trying to scrounge up some freelance design projects and pitched several architectural and decorative lighting manufacturers. It turned out to be a hot AI summer, where I generated ideas for over a dozen product … Continue reading hot AI summer, part 1: gold futures
Excellent CES 2024 interview with Jeremy Hochman, CEO/Founder of Megapixel and Ventana, going into great detail exploring the Ventana microLED display system and design. Continue reading ventana deep dive video
Bart Maeyens recently shared an update on LinkedIn about Signify’s long-running 3D printing effort – and there is a lot of info if you know what you’re looking at. Signify’s 3D printing program started over a decade ago in Philips … Continue reading 3D printing at signify – 2024 update
How might Charles and Ray Eames have approached the growing desire for outdoor living? What if they had access to today’s modern LEDs and compact battery technologies? How might they have handled our challenge to decarbonize and detoxify architectural lighting? … Continue reading charles and ray go outside
Marvel Labs is a startup by a corporate innovation guy and a 3D printing veteran that claims to have a fully bio-based material solution for binder-jet style 3D printing. They claim to have a bio-based binder that can work on … Continue reading marvel labs 3D printing
I came across this video showing a production process combining 3D printing, UV-cured resin and laser-cut back plate for building illuminated channel letters. Using custom-sized 3D FDM printers that look to have a print volume of roughly 600mm x 600mm … Continue reading 3D printed LED channel letters
Swedish lighting conglomerate Fagerhult has launched a beautiful new sustainable wooden linear pendant named the Kvisten series. Kvisten is made of birch plywood and espouses many of the core principles I put forth over the past decade: Use the high … Continue reading fagerhult kvisten
Introducing Lightly: A line of radically sustainable architectural linear LED lighting pendants, made from wood, wool and hemp. Lightly strips away high-carbon, toxic materials in favor of bioderived, biodegradable components with a refreshingly simple, circular-economy ready design that ultimately results … Continue reading lightly
Sunne is a startup by Amsterdam designer Marjan van Aubel that incorporates solar PV cells and battery storage into a decorative linear pendant. Begun as a Kickstarter campaign in 2021, Sunne is an interesting concept that takes advantage of proximity … Continue reading sunne
Sunshower is an interesting Amsterdam company with a range of shower lights with ultraviolet and infrared output. I have long dreamt of something like this in my shower, to provide direct warmth and a just a little UV light to … Continue reading sunshower
Lumus is an Israel-based startup developing waveguide lenses for projection glasses in augmented reality applications. I found this interesting post and video by Robert Scoble with the marketing and product heads from Lumus on the technical challenges and design of … Continue reading lumus AR glasses
Nice factory tour video by Leyard Europe of their European SMT assembly line for direct-view LED panels. Just amazing the technology required to produce these video walls. And an good video showing clearly how these walls are assembled. Continue reading leyard europe factory tour
This came through my email: An interesting new concept for a “black neon” 360° LED tube via Potato Lighting out of Shenzen. It must be grossly inefficient, but it will offer some wild special effects in creative applications. Continue reading black neon
The LED revolution has in many aspects, been remarkable. Yet in one critical aspect, the lighting industry has been completely lackluster: Using the flexibility and miniaturization of LEDs to launch new applications/categories of architectural lighting. But once in awhile, a … Continue reading sign by L+S light
Mandalaki Studio is a design group based in Milan that launched HALO EDITION, a decorative projection fixture that makes gorgeous use of lush gradients of light. Gradients of color are a grossly under-appreciated aspect of lighting design, wholly absent from … Continue reading mandalaki studio – halo edition
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