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
Gantom is a small California-based specialty manufacturer with a nice line of ultra-compact LED spot lights, including pinspots and even ultra small gobo projectors. Continue reading gantom
The US DOE’s L Prize program has been conducting long-term testing of the 2009-vintage Philips 60W L Prize-winning LED A-lamps. The results are crazy impressive! A selection of 31 of those lamps passed the 40,000-hour point of continuous operation in July … Continue reading 194,765 hours to L70!
For the past three years I’ve been leading the development of Philips Luminous Patterns. I will be publishing more posts on Luminous Patterns in the future, but as a teaser, here are our first marketing videos: Continue reading philips luminous patterns: first videos
Joshua Jameson reached out to me with his “Lovlit” Kickstarter project, an Internet connected LED-based “candle” that responds to touch to remotely illuminate paired candles. Joshua reached out to me because of the LumiTouch project that me and a team of graduate … Continue reading lovlit candle
An interesting healthcare lighting product called “Recover” from Austrian firm XAL addressing circadian rhythm control for hospital rooms. A wall-mounted fixture for indirect ceiling lighting, Recover features a spectral tuning capability with pre-programmed playback that matches the different color phases of a … Continue reading xal recover
Via DesignBoom: An interesting piece on how Jonathan Hooker “hacked” a prototype system that uses LEDs timed in precise sequences with a video camera to create a system where the facial lighting on a person in a still image or a video … Continue reading oblio
Via Core77.com: SALt – Sustainable Alternative Lighting – is a portable LED lantern that uses a simple galvanic reaction with salt water to power an LED; it is targeted at developing nations. According to their site: Just add water and … Continue reading SALt
An excellent piece on Green Building Advisor examining the technology behind “LED Filament” style bulbs. Continue reading LED filament bulbs
It may seem a very unassuming product intended for mid-range industrial and commercial applications, but I believe that Litecontrol’s recently released Liteweave product line foreshadows major trends in system architectures for linear and planar lighting systems. At its heart, the Liteweave … Continue reading litecontrol’s liteweave system
Zane Berzina is a textile researcher who created a fascinating project called “E-Static Shadows” back in 2009. Berzina’s website contains an in-depth documentation of her research incorporating LEDs and sensing into textile production. According to her website: Artist, designer and … Continue reading zane berzina
IDEO designed and built a kinematic light sculpture called “Edison” at the Epiphany Hotel in Silicon Valley. The LED bulbs fluidly move up and down to abstractly depict various data feeds. IDEO Labs has a great blog post detailing the … Continue reading interactive light sculpture from IDEO
Via DesignBoom. Orphe is an IndieGogo project launching “smart sneakers”. Sneakers with 100 RGB pixels and wireless control. Not quite as fashionable as Verg Wang’s collection, but these sneakers will sure match your Dropshades. TGIF, folks! Continue reading orphe sneakers
The Creator’s Project posted a couple years ago a video on Leo Villareal, specifically about his San Francisco Bay Bridge project, but also including Leo’s commentary on his methodology in general. I love Leo’s awesome scale model (at about 3:20 in … Continue reading leo villareal on the creator’s project
Without a doubt in my mind, the future for the lighting industry will be heavily based on roll-to-roll electronics assembly processes. The use of individually assembled printed circuit boards makes little sense for many lighting applications, such as many common linear … Continue reading bosch rexroth – roll to roll plastic electronics
A Japanese R+D group called Tateyama Kagaku showed at Lux Live 2014 an interesting LED sheet design with a flexible, highly reflective “solder” coating on different substrates. One of the substrates was a tough woven fabric, which felt very robust. … Continue reading tateyama kagaku
Via DesignBoom. A sculptural ceiling installation that is back-lit with RGB LED to create dramatic effects as the light escapes the cracks between the panels. Great installation, but it looks like it was accomplished via tedious on-site assembly — a … Continue reading softlab – installation at rise nation
Introduction – The Next Evolution Part I – Connected Lighting Part II – Embedded Lighting Miniaturization is a big deal. The lighting industry seems to chronically undervalue the importance of simply shrinking the size of components, to either reduce the overall volume … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: embedded lighting
Jim Campbell is a San Francisco-based LED installation artist with a prolific collection of work. Campbell in particular explores abstraction through low-resolution media screens. Intel’s The Creators Project has an interesting piece on Campbell. Continue reading jim campbell’s sculptural LED installations
I love seeing the impact of various LED technologies on different applications. Edge lighting of light guides has been around for decades, but now combined with ultra-small and ultra-cheap mid-power LED packages, a range of new capabilities is emerging. I … Continue reading fotodiox flapjack studio lights
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