forster rohner textile innovations
Lace, lingerie, and the future of lighting electronics! Forster Rohner AG is one of the leading companies for fashionable embroideries in Haute Couture, Ready to wear and Lingerie. As an independent business unit within the Forster Rohner Group, Forster Rohner Textile … Continue reading forster rohner textile innovations
rael san fratello + emerging objects
I posted about them in 2013, but I’m so taken by their creative 3D printed materials and wild forms that I’m posting about them again: Rael San Fratello is an Oakland based architecture studio led by the husband and wife … Continue reading rael san fratello + emerging objects
new york’s luxury glass’n’brass scene
Interesting article in Dezeen chronicling the “hot” design climate right now in NYC for independent, high end, decorative lighting designers/manufacturers who produce their luxury products locally. Continue reading new york’s luxury glass’n’brass scene
denegrib bessai studio – custom ceiling
Very interesting parametric-designed luminous ceiling installation at a private residence by Toronto firm Denegrib Bessai Studio. Continue reading denegrib bessai studio – custom ceiling
nuimo
Via DesignBoom. A Kickstarter campaign for Nuimo, a beautifully designed, wireless, multi-purpose controller targeted for the smart home/Internet of Things systems. Nuimo includes turn, click, swipe and hover sensing; in integral LED display for function; plus an app for determining the routing of … Continue reading nuimo
ketra in fortune magazine
Some press for Ketra, which has a couple of my former Color Kinetics colleagues. Wow! $31m in funding! Continue reading ketra in fortune magazine
lightfair 2015 – embedded lighting – slidedeck
Thanks to everyone who attended my “Embedded Lighting” conference presentation last week at Lightfair 2015. I had great attendance considering the “red eye” time slot! And lots of great Q+A from the audience and follow up after. For anyone who wants … Continue reading lightfair 2015 – embedded lighting – slidedeck
osram omnipoint
I had previously posted about what I call “solid state beam shaping” three years ago, so it is nice to see some actual industry innovation in this direction: OSRAM revealed a new multi-array lighting technology called Omnipoint that was named … Continue reading osram omnipoint
osram ditching lamps
Via Reuters: Germany’s Osram (OSRn.DE) plans to transfer its 2 billion euro ($2.5 billion) general lamps business into an independent legal structure, paving the way for a possible spin-off or sale and allowing it to focus on automotive lighting and … Continue reading osram ditching lamps
tridonic launching DC-based system
Via LEDsMagazine: Tridonic is launching a DC-based system architecture for its light engines. Using a central AC/DC converter makes sense for both reducing the number of components in a system (one power supply vs. a power supply for every fixture) … Continue reading tridonic launching DC-based system
panasonic space player
Panasonic has launched Space Player, a projector in a track fixture format, targeted at creative retail or event applications. I remember vaguely that they debuted a prototype of this back at Light + Building 2014. With a diameter of about 6″, the … Continue reading panasonic space player
lutron founder joel spira dies at 88
Fascinating story on the history of Joel Spira, who invented the modern switching dimmer and founded Lutron. Plus an earlier article with some fun anecdotes, too. Continue reading lutron founder joel spira dies at 88
moodifier
Moodifier is a small UK startup with a nascent range of IP and Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) drivers targeted towards residential applications. So if you’re an EE or “maker” type who wants to hack together your own residential lighting dream system, at least … Continue reading moodifier
CITP
I’m certainly not a programmer (unless you count 1980’s vintage Apple Logo with the green turtle), but a colleague just informed me of a simple protocol standard called CITP that allows programmers to connect advanced lighting devices: CITP is an open protocol for integration of lighting controllers, media servers and visualizers on a higher-than-control level. It makes it possible to browse a media server with thumbnail previews of content as well as effects, to use the correct effect-specific parameter names while programming and to preview output from a controller or visualizer. It also allows bidirectional DMX, device selection and patch transfer … Continue reading CITP
lightfair 2015: embedded lighting
I’m presenting a 90 minute session at the upcoming Lightfair 2015, titled “Embedded Lighting: The Future of Integrating Lighting into Architectural Systems.” My session brief: Lighting has historically been fragile, dangerous, objectified. Yet new technologies are being developed to permit lighting … Continue reading lightfair 2015: embedded lighting
dalziel + pow
Via Core77: A very fun interactive installation from retail design firm Dalziel + Pow at the 2015 London Retail Design Expo. Daziel + Pow silk screened Bare Conductive ink and graphics onto a plywood wall surface and used the Ototo capactive touch … Continue reading dalziel + pow
plastic logic + flex enable
Some wild flexible screen technologies that in the future might scale to architectural sizes: Plastic Logic is a German company developing flexible, plastic encapsulated organic display technologies with flexible transistors. The company was recently split: Flex Enable is now an independent R+D operation. … Continue reading plastic logic + flex enable
litecontrol’s liteweave system
It may seem a very unassuming product intended for mid-range industrial and commercial applications, but I believe that Litecontrol’s recently released Liteweave product line foreshadows major trends in system architectures for linear and planar lighting systems. At its heart, the Liteweave … Continue reading litecontrol’s liteweave system
zane berzina
Zane Berzina is a textile researcher who created a fascinating project called “E-Static Shadows” back in 2009. Berzina’s website contains an in-depth documentation of her research incorporating LEDs and sensing into textile production. According to her website: Artist, designer and … Continue reading zane berzina
interactive light sculpture from IDEO
IDEO designed and built a kinematic light sculpture called “Edison” at the Epiphany Hotel in Silicon Valley. The LED bulbs fluidly move up and down to abstractly depict various data feeds. IDEO Labs has a great blog post detailing the … Continue reading interactive light sculpture from IDEO
