Looking ahead to the future of lighting design.
Editors Note: This was an Op-Ed piece I wrote back in 2013 in LEDsMagazine. Sadly, it is still as relevant today as it was over 7 years ago. How do we get the lighting industry to embrace truly sustainable product … Continue reading R+D competitions for sustainable lighting manufacturing
If you’re interested in net-zero energy solutions for commercial or retail facilities, you should consider DC power as the next step. Check out this nicely produced video of my conference presentation and Q&A session at the ISE Smart Building Conference, … Continue reading SBC 2020: The DC-Powered Building – conference video
Thanks to James McHale and the team at Memoori for hosting a great webinar! If you missed it live, listen to it now at your convenience at this link. Really, I should have picked a different title, because the 6 … Continue reading 6 disruptive lighting trends: recorded webinar
Random Studio in Amsterdam put a couple small experiments on Medium and Instagram that are interesting: Marrying fiber optics to LED screens and using LED screens below water. See the Instagram posts below. I feel like I’ve seen the combination … Continue reading random studio: how can screens be more tactile?
Let’s talk about a brighter future: Join my webinar on 18-June as I present my “luminous ’20’s” survey of innovative technology and experiential design trends in retail, hospitality and architectural lighting. Part of the Memoori video Smart Buildings Series. (18-June … Continue reading 6 disruptive lighting trends: memoori smart building webinar
The whole concept of open offices was facing a huge backlash before the pandemic. Now, everyone across the globe is suddenly hyper-sensitive to their body’s relationship to other people. “Social distancing” became a global term in a matter of hours. … Continue reading quarantining the scourge of open offices
It might have seemed strange when I previously posted a video of Jon Favreau discussing digital transformation of Hollywood-style movie making, but I don’t think many people understand the incredible power poised by large-scale, direct-view LED wall surfaces. Neither do … Continue reading the virtual production of the mandalorian
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
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