yamagiwa system X
Yamagiwa’s System X definitely falls under the category of “NOT A DOWNLIGHT!”
Category: Creative Manufacturers
aqua creations
Aqua Creations is a Tel Aviv-based lighting manufacturer with a line of large-scale, silk-wrapped fixtures. This small company is using fantastic organic-inspired forms to explore and generate new formats in lighting. Many of their products are better classified as “light objects” rather than “light fixtures”.
gkd metal fabrics: media mesh
GKD Metal Fabrics is a supplier of interwoven metal meshes for large-scale architectural use.
GKD Mediamesh, a metal fabric product with integral LED video system, is an excellent example of the integration of green design + digital media in architecture. The walls can be used as architectural sun screens, cutting down on the solar heat load entering a building, while simultaneously retaining the views from inside the building and acting as a video screen from the outside.
modular arts wall panels
Modular Arts makes a series of decorative, textural wall panels. Cast from composite mineral powder, each 32″ square panel includes interlocking tongue and groove edges to ensure proper alignment.
sci-fi no more: 3d printing suppliers
Let’s say you want to create your own light fixture. If you can model in 3D, then having rapid prototypes machined or printed has become incredibly easy and relatively cheap to do. It opens up an entire new world of possibilities for designers, especially those of installation art or projects that are “pushing the edge of the envelope.”
lighting tattoos
Sha-Do is a series of pattern-projecting fixtures from a German designer, Peter Buning.
birch and willow: biomass materials in lighting fixtures
Now this is “green” lighting: Birch and Willow, a small firm in Boston, uses weaves of wood and vines to create very organic (both literal and aesthetic) fixtures. The resulting designs create delightful plays of sparkle, shadow and pattern.
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LFSS: Light fixtures from recycled water bottles
Check out the gorgeous pieces on Lisa Foo & Su Sim’s blog page. Lisa Foo is an architect and Su Sim is a landscape architect, both from Malaysia.
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OXO Candela: lighting innovations from Mars
If the Candela series of portable lighting products were suddenly transported back to the ’50s, I’m sure the headlines would read something like this: “Alien atomic glowing flashlights arrive from Mars!”
Candela was designed by local Boston product design firm Vessel (read this NY Times article about the history of Vessel developing Candela and selling the series to OXO).
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Frank Buchwald – Machine Lights
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
Lightspotting: Neocon 2009
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
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