Flexible OLED screens: for real
Ecouterre posted a very interesting piece on Sony’s development efforts for flexible OLED. Such “wearable” concepts for OLED screens have, frankly, been around forever and are getting quite tired, but what is notable is the embedded video finally showing an … Continue reading Flexible OLED screens: for real
hp lobby installation
Designboom has posted yet another rockin’ lighting installation, this time at HP’s Palo Alto office lobby. Designed by installation artists Tronic, a series of vertical video panels include sculptural back panels, and each panel automatically rotates to add a kinetic dimension to … Continue reading hp lobby installation
sculpture + projection = awesomeness, part two
Yet another sculpture + projection installation: Designboom has a post on installation called “Morphology“, which employs simple white cubes as projection surfaces. Melbourne artist Kit Webster projects extraordinary digital kaleidoscope effects on the cubes, some of which really distort visual space perspective in amazing ways. The video … Continue reading sculpture + projection = awesomeness, part two
sculpture + projection = awesomeness
Core77 posted an installation called “Augmented Sculpture” by German artists Grosse8 and Lichtfront. Consisting of an angular wooden sculpture surrounded by four precisely registered video projectors, Lichtfront seamlessly projects a dazzling sequence of patterns onto the sculpture. These guys should get T-shirts made up that say: “Trigonometry rocks my world!” Continue reading sculpture + projection = awesomeness
starbrick by olafur eliasson for zumtobel
I found this older post on Design Boom: Sculptor Olafur Eliasson from Copenhagen created an interesting configurable geometric system prototype for sculptural pendant fixtures. Continue reading starbrick by olafur eliasson for zumtobel
draw the lights
Yanko Design posted a nice concept by designer Seo Dong-Hun for an adjustable ceiling lighting system with individually remote-controlled LED pixels. Completely doable with current technology…just cost prohibitive. Continue reading draw the lights
electroland
Electroland is a Los Angeles firm that focuses on interactive lighting installations for public spaces.
SEED Magazine: The Evolution of Illumination
SEED Magazine has an interesting piece on bioluminescent organisms. One paragraph in particular reads like Mother Nature’s version of interactive lighting control: “Their lights have a variety of purposes: Camouflage, attracting mates, attracting (or distracting) prey have all been observed. In animals with nervous systems, in most cases, neural activity initiates the bioluminescence. But in the velvet belly lantern shark, Lynn says, researchers found that the glowing was not caused by nerve cells. Instead, it seemed, certain hormones controlled the glow: Melatonin and prolactin turned it on, and a hormone called Alpha-MSH turned it off. This makes some sense, as … Continue reading SEED Magazine: The Evolution of Illumination
ipad concept wall
Australian architects ClarkeHopkinsClarke have generated a fun concept rendering for an “interactive library wall” made out of iPads. The concept as literally expressed is impractical, but the idea is clearly supporting a trend for future architectural systems: A unitized, tiled, … Continue reading ipad concept wall
simple wooden pendants
Adam Brackney is a designer in Minneapolis with a small storefront called Workerman. He has for sale a refreshingly simple pendant: A walnut block, Edison socket, and retro carbon-filament incandescent A-lamp. Ahhhh….the good old days. Incandescence: We Salute You! via … Continue reading simple wooden pendants
lighting inspiration: jason brooks
Jason Brooks is a London-based graphic illustrator that has done work with numerous companies across the genres of fashion, lifestyle, and interiors. Besides making me wish I was a young, rich and fabulous hipster-globe-trotting-party-animal, his illustrations are fantastic lighting inspiration: They … Continue reading lighting inspiration: jason brooks
dubai fountain
WET Design, the designers and fabricators of the most bad-ass fountains ever, have a snazzy new full-screen Flash website that includes a new video of the Dubai Fountain. 6,600 submerged lights, 25 color projectors, hundreds of submerged robotically-controlled nozzles and enough compressed … Continue reading dubai fountain
Luminous Ceilings
Here’s a fantastic slide show of illuminated ceilings throughout history. Modern-era projects start at about 2:30 into the video. “The aesthetic of luminous ceilings: From the image of heaven to dynamic light.” By Thomas Schielke, via Arch Daily. Continue reading Luminous Ceilings
“less or else” is becoming a bore
Editor’s Note: You may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything in the past month. This is because I took an exciting new job and my family and I moved across country. Needless to say, I’ve had zero time for blogging. My new position is Senior Marketing Manager – LED Systems at Micron Technologies. Never heard of Micron? Don’t worry…if you are in the lighting industry, I’m sure you will in the next year. Micron is a huge manufacturer of memory chips and other semiconductor products, and is launching a new line of LED products. But more on that later. For … Continue reading “less or else” is becoming a bore
la rinascente – top floor
Ooohhh….aaaahhh….Italians have such style. While we Americans get to shop under acres of the cheapest 2×4 acoustic ceiling tiles that our department stores can procure from the lowest bidder, the department store La Rinascente in Milan is a showpiece of design.
ArchDaily has a great piece on the new top floor snack shop/restaurant, equipped with gorgeous translucent panels backlit either naturally by skylights above or fluorescent lighting at night.
hard rock cafe interactive memorabilia wall
Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas recently unveiled a massive 18′ wide by 4′ tall rear-projection, multi-touch, multi-user interactive wall for showcasing its rock’n’roll memorabilia collection. Developed by Obscura Digital, a San Fransisco-based “digital design and technology marketing agency,” the wall uses three 1920 pixel HD projectors along with some serious graphics processing power to render a huge number of images and video clips with live multi-touch manipulation.
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acuity brands: OLED group in the works
Sometimes, the best way to figure out what a company is really doing is to monitor their job postings.
As further proof that OLED’s are finally nearing some form of commercial use, Coroflot has an interesting job posting for an industrial designer at Acuity Lighting: Senior Product Designer – OLED Product Design Center.
In case the link doesn’t stay put, following is the job description:
tent digital london: a video from Core77
Check out Core77’s coverage of the Tent Digital show in London. There is a very cool video showing a variety of interactive video and lighting effects. Continue reading tent digital london: a video from Core77
mark braun: pyrus lamp
Mark Braun is a Berlin designer who has recently shown a molded pulp-paper lamp shade at several design shows.
I love how it looks like concrete, yet is thin and light enough to be used as a shade. This another great example of sustainable biomass materials in light fixtures.
Lucept 