Looking ahead to the future of lighting design.
A very interesting projection-mapping art project, which I find very inspiring as a possible alternate lighting simulation tool: …the projection-mapped installation by Ravensbourne University students Mike Alger, Ana Mickovic, and Jenil Buria. Projected onto a 3D-printed diorama, different videos and textures appear to transport a couple cuddling under … Continue reading miniature projection mapping
Introduction – The Next Evolution Part I – Connected Lighting Part II – Embedded Lighting Part III – Sustainable Lighting Circular Economy — What goes around comes around. The “circular economy” is a movement to stop the industrialized world’s bad habit of … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: sustainable lighting
Introduction – The Next Evolution Part I – Connected Lighting Part II – Embedded Lighting Miniaturization is a big deal. The lighting industry seems to chronically undervalue the importance of simply shrinking the size of components, to either reduce the overall volume … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: embedded lighting
Introduction – The Next Evolution Part I – Connected Lighting In the next five years, the overwhelming majority of lighting fixtures and their controls will be connected to the “cloud” via IP-based communications standards. Let’s consider how connected lighting systems impact the lighting industry, … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: connected lighting
The Next Evolution of Light: Introduction A View from the Year 2020 Let’s take a trip in our time machine 5-years ahead to the year 2020 and check out the evolution of the lighting industry. The lighting industry continues to face … Continue reading the next evolution of light: introduction
Princeton-based McAlpine Research Group has successfully printed a complete combination of conductors and LED emitters, specifically quantum-dot based LED sources. Popular Science has a good explanation of the breakthrough. And the specific research can be found here. Here is the … Continue reading mc alpine research group: completely 3D-printed quantum dot LEDs
Katia Vega is a researcher experimenting with “Beauty Technology”. Her Kinisi project is awesome: Vega is using conductive ink to apply LEDs and some sort of movement switches directly to the skin, allowing the LEDs to be controlled by the wink of … Continue reading katia vega’s beauty technology
Two posts have now shown up for this application, so it must be a trend! In February, Wired magazine posted a supersonic jet interior that is replacing windows with massive screens, leading to weight savings and structural advantages. In October, Core77 … Continue reading using flexible screens for aircraft interiors
An incredible media lighting system installation named “Aurora” by Electroland was realized using advanced parametric design, digital fabrication, and 47,000 RGB LED pixels from Philips Color Kinetics. And wonderfully, Electroland presents numerous process photographs and an amazing video recorded from the design, … Continue reading electroland’s aurora project
I’m looking for two good interns to work with my team at Philips Lighting this upcoming spring. Please share this with any students or professors who might fit the bill. The first position is for a graphic design student who … Continue reading internships!
Via DesignBoom: A team of researchers from the wyss institute for biologically inspired engineering at harvard university, have developed a 3D printed robotic lamp capable of self-assembling. Presented at the IEEE international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA), the proof-of-concept lamp can be … Continue reading self assembling robotic lamp
Historically speaking, architects really gave up the creative power of being “master builders” when “means and methods” was split away from the design side of construction projects and given to the contractors. So it is nice to see architecture students regain … Continue reading Rob|Arch – robotic fabrication in art, architecture and design
There is far more to sustainability in lighting technology then merely reducing energy consumption — so I’m thrilled to see that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solid-State Lighting group has included a new section exploring the broader topic of sustainability in … Continue reading U.S. DOE includes sustainability in R+D roadmap
Another way conductive inks are moving towards mainstream applications…this time through low-cost inkjet printing. Continue reading Quickly Prototype Circuits With New Inkjet-Printable Conductive Ink
It is interesting to see how much fundamental R+D work is going into flexible electronics, including systems focused on LED and lighting applications. The PLACE-it project (Platform for Large Area Conformable Electronics by InTegration) is a research consortium funded via the European … Continue reading PLACE-it project
If you’ve ever taken the Thalys high speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, then you’ve probably seen the massive greenhouses stretching out to the horizon as far as the eye can see. These are not just simple greenhouses or indoor farms: Think … Continue reading philips horticulture lighting
Via TreeHugger and DesignTaxi: John Rogers at the University of Illinois (who I previously wrote about here) is now exploring electronics that can dissolve in water. What a fantastic area of exploration given the huge ecological disaster of our electronics … Continue reading electronics that dissolve in water
Following on my post about Leah Buechley’s intriguing TED Talk regarding “sketching” electronics, I would like to highlight the work of one of Buechley’s PhD students, Jie Qi. Jie has created several beautiful exploratory artworks that consider how to bond … Continue reading jie qi – mit media lab artist
A crazy, totally sci-fi, yet very real Kickstarter project that is looking to splice bio-luminescence genes into plants to create glowing plants. This is great research: Radical, visionary, and a completely different way of thinking about how we live. It is … Continue reading glowing plants
Via DesignBoom, a Renault concept car developed by Ross Lovegrove that was just launched in Milan. I’m not saying that I particularly like this as a car per se, but I love the future-take on using integral textures of light. … Continue reading renault twin ‘z concept by ross lovegrove
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