A great article just appeared in the New Yorker comparing the history of light bulbs and the challenge of switching from an industry structure around planned obsolescence to an industry built around durable products — effectively circular economy strategies. Some notable sections … Continue reading planned obsolescence vs. LED lighting
I posted on London-based Meystyle back in 2013, but I just checked in on their site and see they’ve added a bunch of new patterns and project photography for their LED wallpaper collection. Nice to see them successful with such … Continue reading meystyle: update
Check out the piece I just wrote for Philips Lighting’s North American blog on our presence at Neocon. Reposted here for posterity through the ages: Philips Lighting debuts Luminous Patterns at Neocon 2016 in Chicago Philips Lighting debuted its new Luminous Patterns … Continue reading philips luminous patterns: neocon 2016
ISTL has some interesting multi-protocol, centralized LED driver products available. The White Knight 36 is the world’s first LED driver to integrate an advanced control system alongside a powerful 1000W driver stage, capable of controlling up to 36 independent output channels with the widest ever range of dimming control protocols. The White Knight 36 can be dynamically configured to use DALI, DMX, DSI, RDM, Art-Net3, KiNET & sACN dimming protocols, whilst being able to monitor external occupancy and ambient light sensors without the need for expensive external control systems. Continue reading integrated system technologies
As part of the renovation of the Central Station at Eindhoven in the Netherlands, a new luminous ceiling is being installed throughout. Here is the concept video: https://youtu.be/70q5gLAU0Uo I shot some pictures during construction. I believe the contractor installing the … Continue reading luminous ceiling at eindhoven station
A few fresh new images of Luminous Patterns, taken in our shiny new showroom in Eindhoven, hot from the memory stick. Enjoy. Continue reading philips luminous patterns: new images
Via LuxReview, an interesting new California-based lighting company called Goldeneye has launched a ceramic-based lighting fixture series called Airelight. Ceramics hold promise for interesting LED designs. I’ve covered CeramTec many years ago, which has been a regular at many lighting tradeshows … Continue reading goldeneye airelight
Voxel8 is a Boston-based, Harvard spin-out startup that is integrating the printing of conductive materials directly into 3D printing. The future is pretty obvious at this point: I’ve previously mentioned conductive ink and 3D printing — combining the two is an obvious step … Continue reading voxel8
I was in the cool Local Goods Market store in De Hallen in Amsterdam this weekend and saw this amazingly simple fixture by local Amsterdam design shop Waarmakers (who I posted about previously here). Talk about circular economy design at its finest!!! Why are … Continue reading waarmakers cardboard LED lamp
https://youtu.be/XVLxQ7ZGyeY My team and I just completed the new Philips Luminous Patterns showroom in Eindhoven. Occupying 200 sq/m, we’ve installed 12 large Luminous Patterns wall and ceiling installations depicting a reception area, bar, hotel room, and several retail scenarios. Completing the space … Continue reading philips luminous patterns: new showroom
A hugely successful show for Philips Lighting and our Philips Luminous Patterns launch. We had great placement in the booth and it was busy — 20,000 people visited the Philips booth just on Tuesday! The design we had at the … Continue reading philips luminous patterns @ light+building 2016
According to the NY Times, apparently the US government killed the Lumileds deal over potential military applications of gallium nitride (GaN), one of the key ingredients in LED technology. At the center of the committee’s concerns on the Philips deal, according to Mr. Lewis, was a little known but increasingly important advanced semiconductor material called gallium nitride. Though not a household name like silicon, gallium nitride, often referred to by its abbreviation GaN, could be used to construct a new generation of powerful and versatile microchips. It has been used for decades in the low-energy light sources known as … Continue reading GaN killed the Philips Lumileds deal
Nice interview with Bernd Voelpel, my colleague from Philips Lighting who heads the Luminous Carpets venture team. Shot at the 09-December global media day event in Eindhoven. Continue reading philips luminous carpets – interview
Via Dezeen. “What is fashion missing? Micro-controllers.” Some wild fashion concepts by Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht that combines 3D printing, embedded lighting, projection mapping, sensors, etc. (not to mention some crazy insane 3D modeling skills!) into some very futuristic ensembles. Gorgeous … Continue reading anouk wipprecht
Via The Verge: Sony is adding the guts of a smartphone into a residential ceiling light, copying some of the concepts of Amazon’s Echo voice-controlled product. If 2016 is the year of connected gadgets doing all the things smartphones can’t, … Continue reading sony’s smart home lighting
I’ve been searching for data on funding and revenue for high-growth, VC-backed lighting startups. Here’s a spreadsheet of data I found via web and anecdote. Update 1: Added Ketra to the list. Continue reading lighting startups funding and revenue (updated)
What happens when designers fuse patterns of light into architectural materials? Introducing Philips Luminous Patterns Our team at Philips Luminous Patterns is integrating decorative patterns of light into architectural wall and ceiling systems. We believe that patterns of light in architectural surfaces … Continue reading philips luminous patterns: make a statement with patterns of light
Mosaic Lights is a Budapest startup that launched an LED panel that can be installed directly behind transparent or translucent tile. You can see a brief glimpse of the actual product in their installation video. Looks like the LED panel … Continue reading mosaic lights
I hosted a session on embedded lighting for a group of local architects and we captured it to share as a webinar. I cover how fusing lighting into surfaces offers new opportunities to advance modern architectural lighting paradigms; some tips … Continue reading philips luminous patterns: embedded lighting webinar
EDITORS NOTE, JUNE-2019: A contact from Isomi reached out to be asking for a couple updates to this blog post. See quotation below: Would it be possible to update the first paragraph? Isomi isn’t a spinoff of Paul Crofts Studio, … Continue reading isomi light wall
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