Nice back-lit shadow pattern at a cafe podium at Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport near the C gates. It is hard to tell in the photograph, but the pattern is actually a shadow from behind, not a printed graphic on the front. Continue reading cafe chocolate
Houzz has a good blog post with some imagery from the recent Tom Cruise flick “Oblivion.” Sci-fi movies are a great place to see the future of lighting design, and the interior sets from Oblivion show some slick, modernist lighting … Continue reading oblivion
Via Gizmodo, a stunning video that makes exquisite use of projection mapping, choreography, and ROBOTS! According to Bot & Dolly: “Bot & Dolly is a design and engineering studio that specializes in automation, robotics, and filmmaking. It’s our mission to advance … Continue reading bot & dolly
Via Dezeen, a funky but cool installation at the London Design Festival 2013. Fluorescent lights are controlled by analogue toggle switches in this interactive installation by Faye Toogood for design brand Established & Sons (+ slideshow). “Interactive” for sure, but … Continue reading the conductor by faye toogood
More vintage advertising posters! Following on my previous post with a variety of vintage lighting advertising, I discovered that my colleagues from the Philips Company Archives have posted a great collection of advertising posters on Pinterest: 122 Years of Philips. The … Continue reading 122 years of Philips
Sometimes the basics of design are the still the most important. Here’s a simple video showing how to paint a setting sun on a mountain backdrop. Continue reading how to paint glowing light
Here are some really cool vintage advertising posters for lighting products. A couple of these I took myself, the rest are from Gizmodo, Paul Malon’s amazing Flickr collection, the Library of Congress, and other random places. Continue reading vintage lighting posters
I recently found some terrific design inspiration in a Lifehacker article titled “Why You Don’t Remember Your Commute” by Thorin Kklosowski. In brief, the author describes how the brain writes new memories when encountering new activities or environments, effectively making … Continue reading dynamic lighting vs. the compression of memory
A little eye-candy to inspire your concept renderings: Via Behance, I found these gorgeous nighttime images by German photographer Jakob Wagner. Continue reading jakob wagner photography
Here’s a cool concept via Core77 , one for all the real estate developers/urban designers/trade show booth designers out there: Taking a 1:1000 scale urban model and using projection mapping to create some wicked cool visuals. The project, called the Tokyo … Continue reading urban model projection mapping
DBM Reflex is a Canadian company that specializes in optical moldings for the automotive industry, specifically tail-lights. The design in some of these light pipes is amazingly complex and precise. So I ask: If Richard Kelly were alive today, what … Continue reading dbm reflex
In February I presented “The Next Evolution of Lighting” at the 2013 Strategies In Light conference, held at Santa Clara, California, the heart of Silicon Valley. I specifically submitted to Strategies in Light because it has a strong focus on the … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: LEDs Magazine
A heartwarming TED Talk about Richard Turere, a young Kenyan boy who invented a lighting system for living peacefully with lions: Richard Turere is a young Maasai man who lives in the wilderness of the Kenya savanna, on the edge … Continue reading richard turere’s lion lights
Are you a lighting person afraid of shadows? Beaten down by endless lighting calculations and feeling like a code compliance zombie? Then find some inspiration in the exquisite visual art from Gabriel Zambrano, the graphic designer aka Greyfaced, on either … Continue reading greyfaced
My former Color Kinetics colleague Tom Hamilton (now a VP at Ketra) sent this link to a rather fun, traveling art piece called “Exxopolis” that uses pneumatic air structures in combination with richly saturated translucent acrylic panels to create color-soaked … Continue reading architects of air – exxopolis
Via Designboom: located in the heart of athens, a small street within the monastiraki area is host to a lighting installation. by inviting users to donate their old luminaires, fixtures and lamp shades in order to transform the abandoned street … Continue reading athens communal lighting installation
From Next Avenue.org, an interesting viewpoint on the dark, short days of winter by designer and writer Akiko Busch. My favorite passages: Grasping Jung’s belief that the seed of creativity was found in the shadows, she welcomes the interior voyages into … Continue reading the benefits of shorter days
I stumbled across an amazing article from the UK site Daily Mail about Google’s data centers. The photography is beautiful and includes some very cool lighting effects, all of which seem the residual, unintended impact from the thousands of LED … Continue reading data center lighting
A delightful little robotic project from students at the Victoria University of Wellington called Pinokio, a project very similar to a project from MIT’s Media Lab that I posted a few years back. Check out the FastCompany Co.Design article describing … Continue reading your lighting is watching you
Nice neon installation as seen in DesignBoom. I’m not particularly interested in the fragile neon aspect of the art piece, but I can see this as a good example of incorporating flush-mounted luminous lettering or even digital media into wall … Continue reading neon installation by joseph kosuth
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