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
LUO-Light is a Helsinki-based lighting startup led by German architect Oliver Walter that has launched a modular, click-together linear lighting system using bamboo for the primary structural element. Exchangeable optics and LED engines. Thanks Panos Loannidis for the original post! Continue reading luo-light
During this past week’s Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, I visited the fantastic “Beyond Building” showhome. Created by Biobased Creations from Amsterdam, they’ve created a compelling construction materials library called The Exploded View with a nice survey of materials that … Continue reading the exploded view – biomaterials library
Microsoft continues its tradition of futurism, this time winning a Red Dot Design award for a concept called “Flowspace Pod.” The integrated lighting on both sides of the pod really caught my eye: Surrounding the large adjustable touchscreen (which reminds … Continue reading microsoft’s flowspace pod
From my archives: I came across a series of videos we produced back in 2016-2017 for the Luminous Patterns venture. At the time, my venture team worked with Philips Research and a thesis student from the University of Breda to … Continue reading luminous patterns – unreal engine content clips
Ohmie is a 3D printed table lamp from Milan-based Krill Design that uses a “completely natural and compostable” blend of waste orange peel with a base bio-polymer. The desk lamp itself is a nice little design (but honestly, this feels … Continue reading ohmie 3D printed biopolymer lamp
Toronto-based Nanoleaf is launching a new line of its modular illuminated wall panels called Nanoleaf Elements, which use a color-temperature changing LED engine behind a backlit faux-wood veneer face. The panels include some basic animations to create general textures of … Continue reading nanoleaf elements
Stickbulb is a New York-based manufacturer with a beautiful line of wooden LED linear lighting fixtures that can be configured in a variety of creative arrangements. According to their site: It is every architect’s dream to build with light. The … Continue reading stickbulb
Lightform is a San Francisco-based startup that originally spun out of Microsoft (see my post from 2017) that is exploring interesting new applications of projection mapping technology. They’ve recently released a very impressive demo that combines a ceiling-mounted steerable projection … Continue reading lightform – update
Barrisol, the perennial fabricator of architectural stretched fabric ceilings, just announced via social media a new product offering branded Ecolia by Barrisol. They don’t seem to have a website up yet, but below is the content from the original post: … Continue reading barrisol ecolia
Philip Ross is a Dutch designer with an industrial design education and research background spanning both TU/Delft and TU/Eindhoven. Over the years Ross has created some very interesting experiments exploring how to use various forms of touch to control (or … Continue reading studio philip ross
Barcelona-based lighting manufacturer Lamp recently launched a pendant fixture called Stormbell 80 that offers sustainable material options for the conical reflector shade, providing 3 different style options for solving the problem of acoustic-absorption. They offer recycled cork, bio-fiber hemp and … Continue reading stormbell 80 by LAMP
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