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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
  • innovation management
    • what’s the value of innovation management?
    • 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: embedded lighting

Future Lighting

every surface a screen: the video!

June 17, 2022August 19, 2022 Brad Koerner

I’m thrilled to share my presentation from this year’s Smart Building Conference in Barcelona. Let’s explore how the fusion of physical/digital is rapidly transforming retail, hospitality and many other applications! Check out the YouTube video below, and if you like … Continue reading every surface a screen: the video!

Future Lighting

six hot trends in lighting

August 28, 2021 Brad Koerner

Here’s a short video summarizing my “six trends” concepts – using lots of eye-candy from my own previous project work. This video turned out to be a hybrid crossover of thought leadership with my own professional portfolio. A portfolio of … Continue reading six hot trends in lighting

Business & Innovation

luminous patterns – the lost projects

July 23, 2021 Brad Koerner

A couple projects were completed after the Luminous Patterns venture was effectively terminated, but I managed to track down on the Interwebs a couple images of each — to at least prove to myself that all our hard work is … Continue reading luminous patterns – the lost projects

Creative Manufacturers

luminous patterns – unreal engine content clips

July 2, 2021 Brad Koerner

From my archives: I came across a series of videos we produced back in 2016-2017 for the Luminous Patterns venture. At the time, my venture team worked with Philips Research and a thesis student from the University of Breda to … Continue reading luminous patterns – unreal engine content clips

Lighting Inspiration, Uncategorized

the perception of time in architecture

June 29, 2021June 30, 2021 Brad Koerner

Actively designing the experience of time is the next great opportunity for architects, lighting designers and other design professions focused on the built environment. The PBS Youtube series “It’s Okay to Be Smart” has a fantastic primer on how the … Continue reading the perception of time in architecture

Future Lighting

revelations and resonance

June 23, 2021 Brad Koerner

Here’s a short video competition entry that I made a few years ago as a hobby project. A primer on data-driven ambient media communications in architectural spaces. Frankly, I forgot that I even made this video – it was the … Continue reading revelations and resonance

Creative Manufacturers

nanoleaf elements

June 4, 2021 Brad Koerner

Toronto-based Nanoleaf is launching a new line of its modular illuminated wall panels called Nanoleaf Elements, which use a color-temperature changing LED engine behind a backlit faux-wood veneer face. The panels include some basic animations to create general textures of … Continue reading nanoleaf elements

Cool Architects

clinique laboratories by UXUS

June 3, 2021 Brad Koerner

There’s something about this Clinique retail design concept by Amsterdam-based UXUS that really caught my eye: It just seems to be “oozing luminosity” out of every nook, cranny, sign box and shelf surface. Overall, it creates a powerful effect. I … Continue reading clinique laboratories by UXUS

Future Lighting

OLED bedroom concept

May 21, 2021May 20, 2021 Brad Koerner

Dezeen has been running a design competition with LG for novel uses of LG’s OLED display technologies. One entry in particular caught my attention: Gianfranco Vasselli’s concept for integrating an OLED display into a “shelf” arrangement over a bed. I … Continue reading OLED bedroom concept

Business & Innovation

cima – lighting program update

April 19, 2021 Brad Koerner

A little sneak peak at what my team at Cima is working on: Exploring the fusion of “lighting”, “graphics” and “architecture” across a variety of applications. We’re experimenting with a wildly different 360° virtual showroom experience instead of just another … Continue reading cima – lighting program update

Lighting Inspiration

kinetica living patterns – unreal engine

January 27, 2021 Brad Koerner

There is something about this video of a plugin for Unreal Engine that really inspires me, relating back to my work on embedded lighting and luminous patterns. The setup is beautiful and the motion is hypnotic… Continue reading kinetica living patterns – unreal engine

Business & Innovation, Future Lighting, Interactive Lighting, Lighting Technology

6 disruptive lighting trends: recorded webinar

June 19, 2020 Brad Koerner

Thanks to James McHale and the team at Memoori for hosting a great webinar! If you missed it live, listen to it now at your convenience at this link. Really, I should have picked a different title, because the 6 … Continue reading 6 disruptive lighting trends: recorded webinar

Future Lighting

random studio: how can screens be more tactile?

June 15, 2020 Brad Koerner

Random Studio in Amsterdam put a couple small experiments on Medium and Instagram that are interesting: Marrying fiber optics to LED screens and using LED screens below water. See the Instagram posts below. I feel like I’ve seen the combination … Continue reading random studio: how can screens be more tactile?

Future Lighting

6 disruptive lighting trends: memoori smart building webinar

June 10, 2020 Brad Koerner

Let’s talk about a brighter future: Join my webinar on 18-June as I present my “luminous ’20’s” survey of innovative technology and experiential design trends in retail, hospitality and architectural lighting. Part of the Memoori video Smart Buildings Series. (18-June … Continue reading 6 disruptive lighting trends: memoori smart building webinar

Business & Innovation

signify natureconnect

May 20, 2020May 19, 2020 Brad Koerner

It seems that some of my former colleagues in the Design and Ventures teams from Signify are starting up a new corporate venture called NatureConnect. Nice proposition, looks like an amalgam of the old Philips OneSpace for ambient luminescence, with … Continue reading signify natureconnect

Future Lighting

quarantining the scourge of open offices

March 17, 2020 Brad Koerner

The whole concept of open offices was facing a huge backlash before the pandemic. Now, everyone across the globe is suddenly hyper-sensitive to their body’s relationship to other people. “Social distancing” became a global term in a matter of hours. … Continue reading quarantining the scourge of open offices

Creative Manufacturers

dresswall

January 26, 2020 Brad Koerner

Dresswall is an Italian manufacturer of stretched-fabric LED light boxes. Such lightboxes have become quite a commodity category, but I especially like how Dresswall presents its product line with a very architectural-focused viewpoint and accompanying accessories. And they have a … Continue reading dresswall

Future Lighting

welcome to the luminous ’20s

January 2, 2020March 9, 2020 Brad Koerner

Make sure to check out my new long-form report forecasting six disruptive trends in architectural lighting for the next decade. This is a draft of my forthcoming submission to The IES Visionary Challenge — Beyond 2030: What Do You See? … Continue reading welcome to the luminous ’20s

Future Lighting

bentley exp 100 gt concept car

July 10, 2019 Brad Koerner

Luxury automaker Bentley just revealed a concept car called the EXP100GT targeted for the year 2035. The design includes some captivating lighting features. It is especially notable how so many of the lighting features are animated, creating a sumptuous feeling … Continue reading bentley exp 100 gt concept car

Business and Innovation

guangzhou lighting exhibition 2019

June 14, 2019 Brad Koerner

This past week I attended and presented at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2019, staged by the excellent Messe Frankfurt Hong Kong team. My presentation was titled “From Architectural Lighting to Architectural Media“, in which I covered the transition to … Continue reading guangzhou lighting exhibition 2019

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