Salzburg designer Julia Koerner was recently featured in Dezeen for her fantastic explorations of 3D printing in architectural and fashion applications. Most notably was her costume creations for Marvel’s Black Panther. I don’t know her personally, but I certainly love … Continue reading 3D printing by julia koerner
“Can data become a pigment?” Check out this beautiful TED talk from visual artist Refik Anadol: Continue reading refik anadol: ted talk
Some wildly creative and inspiring VFX and animations from Dutch studio The Outpost. They have a very architectural feel to them – especially the animated models. You can see their Vimeo feed here. So “architectural” in fact, that UNStudio seems … Continue reading the outpost
Check out this gorgeous short film by Albert Dros with spectacular timelapse footage of Amsterdam throughout the seasons. This film really captures the beauty of Amsterdam’s urban spaces and spectacular variety of urban lighting. Despite how obvious this is in … Continue reading amsterdam – my home
Cool article on the The Verge about Lewie Wilkinson, a guy who creates stunning art pieces using lasers, glass, mirrors…and plain old smartphones for cameras. And he shoots these in a walk-in closet off a bedroom that he uses as … Continue reading laser art by lewie wilkinson
What a wonderful, eloquent video on light and lighting from Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde. “…the human body’s response to light is more ancient than the human body itself…” Which is dead to nuts accurate: The wavelengths of blue light that … Continue reading joe rohde on lighting
Via Designboom is this beautiful art installation by Ling-Li Tseng and Serendipity Studio for the Taiwan lantern festival. I include this design on Lucept because it so elegantly showcases the dual revolutions of LED flex strips and high-efficacy LEDs. Let’s … Continue reading the search of the glow
The ceiling design of this department store by H2R design in Abu Dhabi really captured my attention. The ceiling is a segmented series of coves, completed with rounded outer frames and curved inner scallops blending from vertical to the horizontal … Continue reading hob department store in ahu dhabi
So cool, never knew this existed: Triboluminescence is an optical phenomenon in which light is generated when a material is mechanically pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed (see tribology). The phenomenon is not fully understood, but appears to be … Continue reading triboluminescence
I had a great time recording this podcast with Sam Koerbel from Lytei. We chatted about embedded lighting, a bit about my career and speculated on future trends and tech in lighting design. I hope you all enjoy it! Find … Continue reading brad koerner on LytePOD podcast
If you need a little light in these dark times, check out the wonderful quotes on light I found in GoodReads. For posterity, I cut and paste just a few of the thousands of quotes on the site: “Darkness cannot … Continue reading lighting quotes
Refik Anadol is an artist using data streams to drive beautiful, hyper-kinetic digital visualizations. Make sure to check out the video below from Wired on Anadol’s work — lots of creative inspiration for using ambient communications in the built environment. … Continue reading refik anadol
Check out this stunning nighttime aerial photography of the industrial greenhouses here in the Netherlands by Munich-based photographer Tom Hegen. A bit better than the images I shot from a plane 4 years ago! I certainly appreciate the need for … Continue reading greenhouse lighting in the Netherlands
Via Core77: Design studio Order order has developed a poster that visualizes exactly when the sun rises and sets each day, throughout the year. The graph consists of two axes, the vertical shows hours and minutes, the horizontal displays days. … Continue reading day and light poster
Digital signage systems are becoming pervasive in architectural environments, with widespread adoption in out-of-home marketing, wayfinding, menu systems, and retail branding. The steadily dropping cost of digital screens and cloud-based content distribution makes digital signage highly appealing to brands and … Continue reading 5 tips to prevent digital signage burnout
More exquisite papercut lightbox art: Hari & Deepti are husband-and-wife Mumbai-based artists exploring the beauty of layered, luminous papercut art. Some gorgeous inspiration for lighting designers, stage designers, etc. And what an incredible tool for teaching lighting students an understanding … Continue reading hari & deepti
In the Feb/Mar 2019 issue of ARC Magazine, the editorial team asked me and a few other speakers from the Light School sessions at the Surface Design Show to elaborate our opinions on “wellness lighting.” Here was my response: There … Continue reading wellness lighting
I simply LOVE these Pininfarina concept renderings of their new Battista electric super car. A touch ’80s retro, but my eyes just can’t help seeing architectural shapes. I love the subtle graphic patterning of the light, nice inspiration for architectural … Continue reading lush with light
At the opening keynote of the Integrated Systems Europe 2019 show, we were treated to a presentation from projection mapping artist Bart Kresa. Polish-born and now based in Santa Monica, Kresa showed several projects that were an absolute feast for … Continue reading bart kresa studio
Happy solstice everyone. YEAH! Days only get longer from here on out. The weather will of course get worse, but at least this is darkest part of the year. Literally. Now Amsterdam is not insane like Finland or other places … Continue reading happy solstice
