Light + Building has a special area showcasing recent graduates hoping to launch their own product design firms. Three in particular caught my eye. Daniel Becker Design Studio from Berlin was again showing a gorgeous modular lighting system called “Sparks”. … Continue reading l+b: young designers showcase
Artemide continues to be, well…Artemide. Essentially a hoity-toity collection of art pieces, never-the-less their art involves some creative uses of light and they certainly have some winners. And for sure: If you have to ask how much they cost, you … Continue reading l+b:Artemide
Fonckel is a small startup company “spun out” from the Technical University/Eindhoven. Their first product is a small table lamp with an extremely creative control interface: A capacity touch system on the top of the fixture lets you use natural … Continue reading l+b:Fonckel
At Light+Building I had a chance to talk with Angus Hutcheson, the Chief Designer/Founder of Ango, which I had previously written about last year. Angus was a most gracious host and clearly takes great pride in his creations. One can … Continue reading l+b: Ango
Delta Light was founded by a designer, and that focus on design clearly permeates throughout their company. From their gorgeous Belgium HQ factory and showroom, to the catalog filled with world-class architectural projects, to their finely-honed product line, Delta Light … Continue reading l+b: DeltaLight
XAL continues to impress me. I remember a decade ago when we first received XAL’s catalogue in the states. They had a nice little line of decorative xenon-lamp based products (hence the name, Xenon Architectural Lighting). Who would have thought … Continue reading l+b: XAL booth
London-based Rousseau Design sent me this image of a kitchen design project they recently completed with integrated lighting just below the countertop. Nice detail…very subtle but it really energizes the space. The PR release emphasizes the play of different shades and … Continue reading rousseau designs – kitchen project
Unfortunately, I discovered this after the event took place, but the 2011 Shape To Fabrication conference in London looked very interesting, exploring advanced parametric 3D shape design and fabrication techniques. Hopefully they will schedule another conference in the future. Continue reading shape to fabrication
A beautiful chandelier by designer Denise Hachinger. Translucent panels edgelit by LEDs on graceful stems. And the really cool trick: The entire structure morphs up and down to change the light distribution and appearance of the fixture, from primarily a … Continue reading kronleuchter lamp
Lumiotec is a Japanese startup founded by a consortium of companies including Mitsubishi. I snipped a collection of excellent architectural concept images from their site, in the section “living with Lumiotec”.
Finally, a successful Kickstarter project in the lighting world: Loomi is an assemble-it-yourself pendant light from cut cardstock. The project is just the diffuser; combine it with a basic Edison socket fixture with an external screw thread mount. What I love about … Continue reading loomi
Ladies…you finally have your chance to appear and disappear at the grand ball in a whirl of sparkle and light…just like good old Cinderella. CuteCircuit is a small fashion firm that produces some very interesting clothing with embedded LED systems. via … Continue reading cutecircuit
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
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 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
For my small but loyal reader base, you know that I have comments turned off. No evil plot here; I just got tired of all the spam, trackbacks and other silly comments I got. I had very, very few “intelligent” comments. However, someone from Acuity saw my post about their OLED lights, and was nice enough to track me down and send this in: Hi Brad, Just saw your write up on Acuity OLED, I ‘m on the OLED team at Acuity, and you can consider this product LAUNCHED! It can be specified now, and will be available for delivery … Continue reading Acuity Responds: OLED is available 2012 Q1
While Howard Brandston makes a fool of himself demanding his “moral choice” to use 19th-century lighting technology, impoverished villagers in South America, India, and elsewhere are upgrading their entire standard of living by skipping from 17th-century oil lamps to 21st-century solar-LED systems.
Continue reading “lighting for the 1 in 4 humans with no electric lighting”
Acuity’s OLED Lighting Design Center launched a couple products at Lightfair 2011, most notably the Revel fixture. There’s quite the parade of OLED fixtures being “launched” these days. “Launched” is a somewhat dubious term for many of these, as they … Continue reading acuity’s revel OLED fixture
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