vintage color wheels
Beautiful antique color wheels and color books, via Trendland. Continue reading vintage color wheels
lumiotec OLEDs
Lumiotec is a Japanese startup founded by a consortium of companies including Mitsubishi. I snipped a collection of excellent architectural concept images from their site, in the section “living with Lumiotec”.
yozakura OLED Installation
loomi
Finally, a successful Kickstarter project in the lighting world: Loomi is an assemble-it-yourself pendant light from cut cardstock. The project is just the diffuser; combine it with a basic Edison socket fixture with an external screw thread mount. What I love about … Continue reading loomi
cutecircuit
Ladies…you finally have your chance to appear and disappear at the grand ball in a whirl of sparkle and light…just like good old Cinderella. CuteCircuit is a small fashion firm that produces some very interesting clothing with embedded LED systems. via … Continue reading cutecircuit
matadero theater
Nice adaptive reuse project in Madrid, a film library and theater. Via Inhabitat, via Knstrct. I think this project might win the First Unofficial Lucept Award, in the category of “Best Use of Rope Light, EVER”! I’m highly suspicious that … Continue reading matadero theater
purple
It is sad; tragic really: I now have to file the color of light known as “purple” into the same folder as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. I recently attended a seminar by Joe Bokelman of ETC, who made … Continue reading purple
when walls dematerialize into video
Creative media agency Antilop, based in Istanbul, has produced a spectacular art/branding installation for Coca Cola in India. The installation is a simple three wall room, but with high-def and very powerful front projections, using 7 Barco projectors. The content … Continue reading when walls dematerialize into video
“faceture” pendants
Nice triangulated pendants hand made via a simple mold (plastic sheet scribed, bent randomly and folded) and water-based quick cure resin by artist Phil Cuttance. See the full post from Core77. Continue reading “faceture” pendants
samsung’s transparent LCD “window” display
At CES 2012, Samsung introduced an amazing 46″ LCD transparent television with touch controls. My office of the future will definitely have one of these. Check out Core77’s post about it. Continue reading samsung’s transparent LCD “window” display
bocci
Bocci is a design firm in Vancouver, Canada with a couple lines of decorative pendants. Very nice photography…clearly, they love depth of field…or lack thereof. Continue reading bocci
lighting inspiration: lalvani studio
Lalvani Studio explores morphogenomics as used in sculputure and architecture. Check out Haresh Lalvani’s TEDx Talk. The pieces in the pictures here are made in collaboration with the metal shop Milgo Bufkin. Continue reading lighting inspiration: lalvani studio
lighting inspiration: emphemera photo series
Via the site The Inspiration Grid: “Ephemera” Photo Series by Mark Laita, a photographer based in Culver City, California. “Color, form and movement captured in a vessel of water after drops of colored dyes are introduced.” Continue reading lighting inspiration: emphemera photo series
aston martin’s OLED room
No wonder James Bond likes Aston Martin cars: It must be the lighting when you pick up the car. Wired has a great post about how Aston Martin builds their $1.7m One-77 supercar in a laboratory-clean facility. But the part I … Continue reading aston martin’s OLED room
atmospheric optics
Atmospheric Optics is a cool site showcasing all of Mother Nature’s delightful anomolys in the sky. The site has terrific simulations and detailed explanations about how the optical effects work, such as the classic crepuscular rays above. Although it is … Continue reading atmospheric optics
lighting inspiration: bokeh
According to Wikipedia, “bokeh” is the photography term meaning “the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” The website Digital Photography School has some … Continue reading lighting inspiration: bokeh
leo villareal: san francisco bay bridge
Cool Hunting has a post about a new project Leo Villareal is trying to raise funds for: Adding dynamic lighting to the vertical cables of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The Bay Lights from Words Pictures Ideas on Vimeo. Continue reading leo villareal: san francisco bay bridge
lighting inspiration: printemps department store windows by karl lagerfeld
Department stores’ holiday windows are often amazing little worlds in and of themselves, filled with color, sparkle, animation and humor. I was particularly caught by some of the windows at the French department store Printemps, designed by Karl Lagerfeld. via … Continue reading lighting inspiration: printemps department store windows by karl lagerfeld
philips microbial home + biolight project
Philips Design has an interesting demonstration project called the “Microbial Home” that explores the use of methane gas and other natural end-to-end processes throughout the home. As one part of the project, Philips proposes a lighting fixture that uses methane gas to … Continue reading philips microbial home + biolight project
chrysalis project
SolidSmack has an interesting article about the “Chrysalis Project” on Kickstarter, an effort by architect/programming experimenter Chris Chalmers. To summarize the article, Chris is developing an export function from Rhino’s Grasshopper add-on, to allow designers to export parametric models — and their … Continue reading chrysalis project
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