Looking ahead to the future of lighting design.
Make sure to check out my new long-form report forecasting six disruptive trends in architectural lighting for the next decade. This is a draft of my forthcoming submission to The IES Visionary Challenge — Beyond 2030: What Do You See? … Continue reading welcome to the luminous '20s
Taking a moment to reflect on this past year, let me review 3 major topics I put forth attempting to drive innovation in the architectural lighting industry. Ambient Communications At the start of the year I spoke at several conferences … Continue reading closing out a year of innovation
Luxury automaker Bentley just revealed a concept car called the EXP100GT targeted for the year 2035. The design includes some captivating lighting features. It is especially notable how so many of the lighting features are animated, creating a sumptuous feeling … Continue reading bentley exp 100 gt concept car
Over the years Audi has continued to impress with creative concepts using cutting-edge technology for their automotive headlights and taillights. Here are a couple recent videos: The first showcases what is possible when headlights become interactive 1 megapixel digital projectors, … Continue reading audi headlight concept videos
Sony presented a beautiful installation called “Affinity in Autonomy” that explored future relationships with robotics of various sorts. The installation was beautifully conceived, using both darkness and luminous splashes of vivid blended-pastel colors to create a wonderful experiential sequence. But … Continue reading milan 2019: sony’s affinity in autonomy
The future is dim for preset-scene lighting controls We are entering a future where architectural design and its associated technology systems are increasingly focused on experience management as the primary end-goal of many projects. New technology systems, such as digital … Continue reading media-driven vs data-driven environments
I continue to be blown away by the rapid technical advance of large format LED screens. Further proof comes from the visually gorgeous movie “First Man” chronicling the life of test pilot and astronaut Neil Armstrong. Watching the behind-the-scenes featurette, … Continue reading LED screens used in filming “first man”
“Social walls” are an interesting new concept. Content aggregator services pull together data streams from various social media sites like Instagram or Twitter, based on desired hashtags, geo-fencing, or other qualifiers. These content streams can be displayed in a variety … Continue reading social walls
Rogier van der Heide shared a technical concept via LinkedIn which he has submitted to the upcoming Lux Awards program. Rogier is taking the capabilities of “LiFi” or “coded light” and applying them specifically to museum applications. LiFi is quite simple: … Continue reading “the light watch” concept
Check out this visually innovative and inspiring video from Populous on the future of eSports events. A few screen shots below. Lots of inspiration here for architectural media systems. And check out this great article from Blooloop on the growing … Continue reading eSports arenas
According to WDW News Today, Disney has taken a patent out titled ““Interactive Multiplane Display System With Transparent Transmissive Layers” which can be simply described as a multi dimensional screen. It will most likely be used to create virtual windows, … Continue reading disney patents multi-plane display screen
TeamLab, a Tokyo-based creative group, continues to WOW with new projection-heavy digital art installations. I first posted about TeamLab back in 2015, but now their latest is an entire 10,000 sqm museum installation titled “Borderless” with gorgeous large-scale projection-mapped installations. TeamLab’s … Continue reading teamlab: borderless
The Ishikawa Senoo Laboratory at the University of Tokyo is demonstrating a setup they call DynaFlash v2 and Post Reality. They combine incredible ultra-high speed projection (1000 FPS), high-speed 3D sensing, plus the processing techniques needed to drive 3D mapping … Continue reading dynaflash high speed projection mapping
The global powerhouse design firm UNStudio recently announced that it is launching a tech startup/spin-off called UNSense that will focus on using sensor-based technologies for the built environment. According to their PR announcement: With UNSense, our aim is to improve physical, mental and … Continue reading unsense
Join me on Valentine’s Day at the Strategies in Light conference in Long Beach, California. I will present some examples of using BIM, parametric design and virtual renderings to sell and specify “embedded lighting.” You can find the conference info … Continue reading more photons, less paper
Via The Verge: At CES 2018, Samsung is previewing a “modular” direct-view micro-LED 146″ 4K TV. LEDs continue to race into the future…and it looks like the trend for direct-view LED screens with incredibly small pixel pitch is going to … Continue reading samsung microLED
Lighting designer Tapio Rosenius and a few other founders have recently launched an interesting new startup called Skandal Technologies exploring the field of ambient architectural communication via embedded lighting. Not much is public yet, but according to Tapio’s LinkedIn page and their website: Ambient Communication is a new practice where data informs interventions into the physical environment. Humans have substantial ability to process ambient and peripheral information that directly affects our feelings and subconscious contextual understanding without the need to activate cognitive thought processes. Introducing meaningful digital feeds to our built environments through ambient communication we enhance and extend our … Continue reading skandal technologies
To echo a piece I just published on LinkedIn, I’m asking my network for what cool software tricks designers are using to accomplish embedded lighting installations. I’m doing a bit of research for my upcoming conference presentation at Strategies in … Continue reading what is your workflow for designing embedded lighting installations?
Via DesignBoom: DB recently created a new concept model exploring the future of train interiors. Notice the embedded lighting concept in the ceiling? Continue reading deutsche bahn train concept
There are some really cool things are happening with the combination of BIM (building information modeling…such as Revit) with AR (augmented reality). Via SPAR3D, one supplier, Visualive3D, has developed software where a BIM model can be accurately aligned to a … Continue reading lighting design in BIM via AR/VR
