ecco luce
A cool design concept called Ecco Luce from industrial designer Jonas Samson, who I last posted about in 2009. Ecco Luce is a personalized light wall. I created this new and unique way to intergrate led-lights in a wall. Switched … Continue reading ecco luce
LED wallpaper
The allure of integrating lighting into decorative wall surfaces continues to stimulate designers. Two design firms, Ingo Maurer and Meystyle, offer creative techniques for integrating LEDs into wallpaper installations. Via Inhabitat, London-based Meystyle is led by two sisters who do … Continue reading LED wallpaper
rijksmuseum: BBC special
Available in 4 parts via YouTube, here is a great BBC special featuring the reopening of the Rijksmuseum, hosted by Andrew Graham-Dixon. Although this video doesn’t specifically address the lighting, I highly recommend it. The entire collection is illuminated by … Continue reading rijksmuseum: BBC special
jakob wagner photography
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
glowing plants
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
emerging objects
Via Gizmodo, a cool little design company called Emerging Objects that is exploring alternative natural materials such as wood pulp, clay, and salt for use in 3D printing technologies. Continue reading emerging objects
urban model projection mapping
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
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
renault twin ‘z concept by ross lovegrove
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
rijksmuseum: crisp and consistent
Throughout the galleries of the Rijksmuseum, there is a noticeable perception of visual clarity in the lighting. Two key factors, which are often not considered during the specification process, resulted in this success: Crisp shadows and the consistent, matched spectral … Continue reading rijksmuseum: crisp and consistent
rijksmuseum: image library
Here is a collection of Rijksmuseum images I captured at the end of the project, throughout the myriad of different galleries. Visiting the Rijksmuseum is a delight because of the variety of spaces and rich mixture of artwork contained within … Continue reading rijksmuseum: image library
rijksmuseum: the future of LED lighting has arrived
On April 13, 2013, the enormous Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands and one of the largest and most prominent museums in the world, is reopening after a massive ten-year, €375m renovation. I will state my personal enthusiasm for the … Continue reading rijksmuseum: the future of LED lighting has arrived
audi matrix headlights
As I covered previously, Audi has been creating some fabulous new headlight designs. This round, they are exploiting one of the more exciting aspects of LED technology: The ability to use redundant LEDs within a single fixture to create something I … Continue reading audi matrix headlights
the next evolution of lighting: LEDs Magazine
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 day made of glass
In the future…there will be no veiling glare. This fun vision of the future has been out for a couple years, but I just came across it. Very much in line with Microsoft’s Future Vision series, Corning presents some very … Continue reading a day made of glass
richard turere’s lion lights
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
y[our-s]ukkah
Wow! What an image! An incredible rendering found on a Behance.net project page by Jon Bailey. Continue reading y[our-s]ukkah
greyfaced
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
paper chandeliers
Via Dezeen: An undulating canopy of cardboard tubes by American studio Cristina Parreño Architecture and students from MIT hovered over visitors at the ARCOMadrid art fair in Spain last month. Overall, it is a bit much for me, particularly at … Continue reading paper chandeliers
cordoba contemporary art center
Via Dezeen, an interesting contemporary art center project by Madrid architects Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos in Cordoba, Spain, with a beautiful illuminated facade. According to Dezeen: Hexagonal funnels stretch down from the roof to channel natural light into concentrated spaces. Meanwhile, tiny … Continue reading cordoba contemporary art center
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