The Future of Shade is a design competition hosted by fabric manufacturer Sunbrella. The quality of the entries is actually quite good and the site contains lots of creative inspiration for novel daylight designs. Good inspiration for anyone in lighting…check … Continue reading future of shade competition
Such amazing complexity built into a shoe. LED lighting included. Check out the Nike Hyper Adapt tear-down by ID-firm Mindtribe. Continue reading nike hyperadapt tear down
Are these images of some hot new “Tron”-like architectural project? Maybe an ultra club? Some crazy money-no-object tradeshow booth? Maybe a TV gameshow stage set? Nope, they’re just close-up shots of new BMW headlights for the M4. These and other … Continue reading automotive head and tail lights
A beautiful quote on being a lighting designer from Tupac Martir via an interview on ARRI’s site: Why are you fascinated by light? Because it allows me to hide! I love what light can do, how it enhances an idea or creates a poignant moment – every time the audience takes a picture they are capturing a moment that has been carefully created with light. Most people are not aware of how much light brings to their life, how much it influences how they feel – their mood and behavior. I love the idea that by creating the scene I … Continue reading tupac martir
Via Architectural Digest and Wired: From the upcoming Hollywood movie Passengers, some gorgeous futuristic set designs with beautiful lighting concepts: Continue reading passengers movie set designs
Congrats Leo and team! Continue reading leo villareal wins london bridge competition
For a promotional stunt Lexus covered one of it’s IS models in a whole lot of flexible RGB LED strips to turn the car into one massive display screen. I can only image what the trunk (and probably the back … Continue reading lexus LIT IS
A simply gorgeous image of an art installation in Versailles by Studio Moger. Via Designboom. Continue reading moger’s glowing halo
Check out Luminous Patterns at Dutch Design Week! We’ve installed our Light Forest piece, designed with Amsterdam design firm BCXSY, at the fabulous Kazerne restaurant and art gallery. And be sure to attend my seminar titled “Embedded Lighting” on 24-October at … Continue reading philips luminous patterns at dutch design week
At lunch today I walked by a nearby construction site for a new building and noticed something interesting: The contractors were using flexible LED strip lights for their temporary work lighting. They had it strung up and threaded through the scaffolding. How interesting it is to see a leap in technology from blinding high-power, fragile metal halide “cage lights” to flexible, durable cords of light that distribute the illumination far more evenly. I bet they have these strip lights on cord reels just like any other electric extension cord or pneumatic hose. Sorry, no pictures – I didn’t want to be rude … Continue reading LED strip lights on construction sites?
Mercedes Benz revealed its new “EQ” electric concept car, which is clearly aimed at being a Tesla-killer. Nevertheless, the light effects embedded throughout the exterior and interior of the car are quite intriguing – but I have to wonder exactly … Continue reading mercedes benz eq concept car
Star War’s iconic lighting panels embedded into the walls of the Empire’s cruisers and Death Star apparently originated when the director of photography Gilbert Taylor found the original set designs by John Barry to be “like a coal mine – all black and … Continue reading star wars – the empire’s embedded lighting
Them there’s fightin’ words…for those of us who are absolute lighting geeks… But I will issue my opinion regardless… The best lighting design EVER is the insane music video from Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna My Way from 1993: Released in ’93, … Continue reading the best lighting design…EVER…
Lumecluster is New York based-artist Melissa Ng, who’s created a striking 3D-printed medieval costume with stunning internal LED illumination sewn into the translucent padding. Her design and fabrication process for the piece can be seen here. Continue reading lumecluster
Cool use of illuminated signage boxes at Chasin’, a clothing store in the 9 Streets area of Amsterdam (Wolvenstraat 21). Continue reading light boxes at chasin ‘
I had a flashback last night to my childhood: I remember my dad bought a book on outdoor landscape lighting that I loved reading as a kid. And sure enough, Amazon still lists it: Ortho Books “How to Design & … Continue reading ortho lighting book
At the latest Apple media event, the company presented a robotic rig named “Liam” that they’ve developed for tearing apart iPhones at EOL for recycling. It’s definitely a step in the right direction towards a circular economy (and terrific to see … Continue reading apple’s recycling robot
Density is a startup trying to make it easy and cheap to get anonymous counts of people in a physical space, which is valuable information for merchants, customers and even city planners. Such a system inspires some interesting ideas for lighting control … Continue reading density
I’m completely captivated by the gorgeous, sensuous, and decidedly dark office interiors included in the November 2015 issue of Wallpaper in a piece called “High Office”. The use of dark & sumptuous materials, high gloss surfaces, high contrast levels, brilliant light sources … Continue reading high office – low lux
TiltBrush is a prototype virtual reality painting system. Below is an awesome example of painting in 3D space while wearing a VR headset. Especially cool is the ability to paint “light” as a brush — sort of like paint with … Continue reading tilt brush and vr
