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
ISOBIO was an EU-funded research project that proposes an innovative strategy to bring bio-based construction materials into the mainstream. A key innovation consists of the use of pre-treated bio-based aggregates for construction, which include insulation materials, hygrothermal and moisture buffering … Continue reading isobio
In searching for biofriendly white surfaces, I found a nice blog post from quite awhile ago that surveys bio-friendly paint options. Since the article is already 14 years old, I will repost below for posterity: Make Safe, Natural Paint Natural … Continue reading natural, safe paints
Australian lighting manufacturer LimeLite has been steadily rolling out a line of track spots and decorative pendants that use 3D-printed components for the key mechanical pieces. Over the years I’ve covered several other manufacturers launching 3D printing for commercial lighting, … Continue reading limelite – 3D printing and DC power
Frankfurt-based Smartengine is a supplier of Power-over-Ethernet smart building technologies, sensors, lighting and controls. A few team members from wtec approached me after my presentation on DC power at the 2020 Smart Building Conference here in Amsterdam. If I remember … Continue reading smartengine | wtec
Formalighting just introduced an animated pendant cluster called Moto-Jojo, part of its broader Motolux series of remote-controlled track spots, downlights, wall sconces and even linear pendants. Moto-JoJo by formalighting from formalighting on Vimeo. Adjusts up to 1.6m in height. Plus … Continue reading moto-jojo by formalighting
The LightArt group of architectural surfaces company 3Form has recently launched a line of 3D printed decorative pendants produced from recycled plastics, presumably cuttings and scrap from 3Form’s primary product lines that they’re chopping and extruding into the plastic filaments … Continue reading 3Form launches 3D printed pendants
Check out this fascinating linear LED lighting product system from Intra Lighting. It’s called Tracker, but let’s just call this what it is: The Zaha solution. Intra has solved the fiendishly difficult challenge of creating a seamless line of light, … Continue reading intra tracker
Agnetix shared their lab tour video. Check it out. If you’re not familiar with Agnetix, check out this Lucept post. They make insane 1200W LED horticulture lighting fixtures, complete with a liquid cooling system and a Raspberry Pi (or eqv) … Continue reading agnetix R+D tour
Nice video tour of the Khatod optics factory in Milan, Italy. What a beautiful facility. Ciao, bella! Continue reading khatod optics factory tour
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