Wonder what’s going to happen to your LED fixtures in about 10 years? Check out this collection of YouTube videos from a company called Sims Recycling Solutions, which shows how they manually tear down products, shred the components and automatically … Continue reading sims recycling solutions
Philips Lighting not only illuminated the entire art collection with LED lighting, we also illuminated the whole exterior of the building with LED. And the Rijksmuseum is no small building — looming over the Amsterdam horizon with unparalleled majesty on … Continue reading rijksmuseum: exterior lighting
Our friends at the U.S. DOE Solid-State Lighting group just released a new study called the “Residential Lighting End-Use Consumption Study“. I’ll get to the punchline right away: A lamp in the average U.S. household typically runs only 1.6 hours … Continue reading 1.6 hours/day: do consumers need durable LED lamps?
A colleague of mine (thanks JM!) forwarded this interesting UK-based startup called Isotera, which is developing a “contactless” wiring system for architectural LED lighting. Here’s Isotera’s own system description: “Using ultra-efficient and reliable bulk power conversion by a single Power … Continue reading inductive power for LED systems
The US DOE just issued a fact-sheet addressing the blue-light output of LEDs. It is a very good read for anyone concerned about this topic. The following two images are the crux of the document. The first chart shows the … Continue reading no, LEDs do not produce more blue light, so get over it
The US DOE SSL team just sent out an email update on the long-term testing of the L-Prize winning lamp entry from Philips. WOW! Out of 200 samples tested to 25,000 hours at a hot 45° C ambient, there were ZERO failures, … Continue reading L-prize testing update
The Solid-State Lighting group at the US DOE just sent out an email with an excellent summary of the measurement standards already in place or currently in development for LED lighting. Here’s is an abbreviated version: “…we now have such … Continue reading DOE SSL standards update
To get a better feel for what the LED lighting at the Rijksmuseum really feels like, check out these two excellent videos put together by our local Philips Netherlands’ marketing team. By the way, in the image above those are my … Continue reading rijksmuseum: philips videos
Lux Magazine published an excellent video, shot at Lightfair, containing interviews with numerous North American lighting leaders discussing the status and future of LEDs. An impressive list, the interviewees are: Gary Feather, VP, LED lighting, Sharp Electronics Menko Deroos, CEO … Continue reading lux magazine video: lighting leaders discuss LEDs
Via Inhabitat, this interesting pendant concept caught my eye, from Dutch design firm MOOOI. I really like the organic, biomimetic feeling of the product, made possible by the use of lots and lots of LED’s married directly to diffusers. According … Continue reading moooi’s heracleum
A cool design concept called Ecco Luce from industrial designer Jonas Samson, who I last posted about in 2009. Ecco Luce is a personalized light wall. I created this new and unique way to intergrate led-lights in a wall. Switched … Continue reading ecco luce
The allure of integrating lighting into decorative wall surfaces continues to stimulate designers. Two design firms, Ingo Maurer and Meystyle, offer creative techniques for integrating LEDs into wallpaper installations. Via Inhabitat, London-based Meystyle is led by two sisters who do … Continue reading LED wallpaper
Available in 4 parts via YouTube, here is a great BBC special featuring the reopening of the Rijksmuseum, hosted by Andrew Graham-Dixon. Although this video doesn’t specifically address the lighting, I highly recommend it. The entire collection is illuminated by … Continue reading rijksmuseum: BBC special
Throughout the galleries of the Rijksmuseum, there is a noticeable perception of visual clarity in the lighting. Two key factors, which are often not considered during the specification process, resulted in this success: Crisp shadows and the consistent, matched spectral … Continue reading rijksmuseum: crisp and consistent
Here is a collection of Rijksmuseum images I captured at the end of the project, throughout the myriad of different galleries. Visiting the Rijksmuseum is a delight because of the variety of spaces and rich mixture of artwork contained within … Continue reading rijksmuseum: image library
On April 13, 2013, the enormous Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands and one of the largest and most prominent museums in the world, is reopening after a massive ten-year, €375m renovation. I will state my personal enthusiasm for the … Continue reading rijksmuseum: the future of LED lighting has arrived
Another excellent rebuttal piece on the garbage “LED’s destroy paintings!” media reports, this time from Lighting Magazine. Plus a funny cartoon… All visible light causes fading, one way or another. Phrased a different way in this article: “If you can see … Continue reading you’ve been framed: LEDs cleared of Van Gogh damage
Via my UK-based Linked-In colleagues: A great article/recap in Lux Magazine of a presentation by Sainsbury’s Mark Hawker, Head of Engineering. Sainsbury is a large grocery retailer in the UK; the article briefly mentions that they’ve opened a 100% LED … Continue reading half of lighting suppliers don’t understand their products
In a recent issue of LEDsMagazine, an excellent pro-Zhaga piece written by Philips’ very own Menno Treffers, who is the General Secretary of the Consortium. Menno is the Senior Director of Standardization at Philips, and not just specifically lighting (he also is … Continue reading zhaga – LEDsMagazine
Many of you might have heard of the recent sensationalist and inappropriate headlines that implied “LEDs destroy paintings!!!” I want to point all of you to an excellent rebuttal piece written by MondoARC: “Study wrongly implies LED to blame for … Continue reading warning: PR releases maybe dangerous to LEDs
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