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  • the future of lighting series
    • six disruptive trends in architectural lighting
    • smart signage concept for retail shelving
    • virtual production and its impact on the real world?
    • hyper vignettes: localizing digital/physical experiences
    • 5 tips to prevent digital signage burnout
    • trends in digital media for athletic facilities
    • active objects, surfaces and zones
    • media-driven vs data-driven environments
    • next evolution of lighting
    • wrap your spaces in social media
    • embedded lighting series
    • the future of office design?
    • the DC powered building
    • koerner design wins US DOE sustainable luminaire design competition
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    • the 3 sins of innovation theater
    • the innovation attitude matrix
    • innovation management: marketing vs product marketing vs sales communications
    • elon musk’s 5 step R&D strategy
    • Business thinking for designers
    • being a good product manager = listening, synthesis, advocacy
    • mixtape for product management

Tag: biodegradeable lighting

Creative Manufacturers

fagerhult kvisten

March 16, 2023 Brad Koerner

Swedish lighting conglomerate Fagerhult has launched a beautiful new sustainable wooden linear pendant named the Kvisten series. Kvisten is made of birch plywood and espouses many of the core principles I put forth over the past decade: Use the high … Continue reading fagerhult kvisten

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lightly

January 20, 2023March 8, 2023 Brad Koerner

Introducing Lightly: A line of radically sustainable architectural linear LED lighting pendants, made from wood, wool and hemp. Lightly strips away high-carbon, toxic materials in favor of bioderived, biodegradable components with a refreshingly simple, circular-economy ready design that ultimately results … Continue reading lightly

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the exploded view – biomaterials library

October 25, 2021 Brad Koerner

During this past week’s Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, I visited the fantastic “Beyond Building” showhome. Created by Biobased Creations from Amsterdam, they’ve created a compelling construction materials library called The Exploded View with a nice survey of materials that … Continue reading the exploded view – biomaterials library

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ohmie 3D printed biopolymer lamp

July 1, 2021June 30, 2021 Brad Koerner

Ohmie is a 3D printed table lamp from Milan-based Krill Design that uses a “completely natural and compostable” blend of waste orange peel with a base bio-polymer. The desk lamp itself is a nice little design (but honestly, this feels … Continue reading ohmie 3D printed biopolymer lamp

Lighting Inspiration

materiom

February 18, 2021 Brad Koerner

I came across this very interesting startup organization called Materiom focused on documenting and measuring natural material recipes for construction and product development. According to their site: Materiom provides open source recipes and data on materials made from abundant sources … Continue reading materiom

Business & Innovation

circular economy approaches in lighting design

January 5, 2021 Brad Koerner

Check out this very nicely constructed presentation on engaging with circular economy design principles in architectural lighting projects from Mark Ridler, Head of Lighting Design at BDP, a global architecture/engineering design firm. From this year’s LpS Digital Symposium (associated with … Continue reading circular economy approaches in lighting design

Creative Manufacturers

natural, safe paints

September 19, 2020September 17, 2020 Brad Koerner

In searching for biofriendly white surfaces, I found a nice blog post from quite awhile ago that surveys bio-friendly paint options. Since the article is already 14 years old, I will repost below for posterity: Make Safe, Natural Paint Natural … Continue reading natural, safe paints

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jiva materials

July 2, 2019 Brad Koerner

Jiva Materials is a London-based startup and project spin-out from RCA that has developed a non-toxic, biodegradable, flax-based circuit board substrate branded Soluboard. The circuit board peels apart and sheds its electronic traces after being soaked in hot water. Continue reading jiva materials

Future Lighting

the next evolution of lighting: sustainable lighting

February 6, 2015 Brad Koerner

Introduction – The Next Evolution Part I – Connected Lighting Part II – Embedded Lighting Part III – Sustainable Lighting Circular Economy — What goes around comes around. The “circular economy” is a movement to stop the industrialized world’s bad habit of … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: sustainable lighting

Creative Manufacturers

light + building 2014: tunto

April 21, 2014 Brad Koerner

I can’t possibly chronicle all the gorgeous design in the decorative halls at L+B, but one company especially caught my eye (again…I noticed them last L+B, too):  Tunto, a Finnish lighting manufacturer that discretely integrates LED lighting into beautiful plywood … Continue reading light + building 2014: tunto

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ninebyfour by waarmakers

January 1, 2014 Brad Koerner

Ninebyfour is a beautiful, elegantly minimal linear pendant design that uses a unique material source:  Felled urban trees gathered from within the city of Amsterdam .  Designed by local design shop Waarmakers — they’ve tracked the location of where the tree originally … Continue reading ninebyfour by waarmakers

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emerging objects

May 3, 2013 Brad Koerner

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

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ango

November 5, 2011April 12, 2012 Brad Koerner

Via Cool Hunter, I stumbled across Ango, a small company in Thailand that uses unique materials to great effect, including raw silk cocoons, rattan, hand soldered wire cages, and hand built-up polymer substrates.  Sounds labor intensive, but the end results … Continue reading ango

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birch and willow: biomass materials in lighting fixtures

July 30, 2009April 12, 2012 Brad Koerner

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Now this is “green” lighting: Birch and Willow, a small firm in Boston, uses weaves of wood and vines to create very organic (both literal and aesthetic) fixtures.  The resulting designs create delightful plays of sparkle, shadow and pattern.

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