Last year Google shut down its development of the VR painting application Tilt Brush, but rather than killing the innovative program, thankfully it decided to open source the code. Already a group has creative a variant called Open Brush. This … Continue reading tilt brush is open source
Check out this very nicely produced video covering the basics of residential lighting design. Produced by Eric Reinholdt of 30X40 Design Workshop in Maine. I like the video, but the lighting design itself suffers from “downlightitus“. Reinholdt should explore integrating … Continue reading residential lighting video by 30X40 design workshop
Some stunning lighting design inspiration can be found in the showreel for Maxon’s Cinema 4D software. Check it out: Continue reading maxon cinema 4d showreel
Check out this amazing article exploring the current state of knowledge on the science of circadian lighting: “The Age of Enlightenment: The Promise of Circadian Lighting“, by Lynne Peeples on the website Undark.org. Really…this is one of the best examples … Continue reading age of enlightenment: the promise of circadian lighting
Rogier van der Heide is curating a new conference called Trends in Lighting in partnership with Luger Research. The conference will be held in conjunction with Luger’s Led Professional Symposium in Bregenz, Austria. Rogier has been quite outspoken about pushing the conception … Continue reading trends in lighting conference
Last week, at the end of my Lightfair conference presentation titled “Ambient Luminescence and Experiential Design“, a crowd of people came up to me at the end of the conference to ask me questions, connect, etc. Patiently waiting until the … Continue reading addison kelly
I found a fantastic PPT that looks like an academic lecture covering the pioneering mid-century lighting designer Richard Kelly. The slide deck contains an especially impressive range of photos of Kelly’s projects that are not commonly available on the web. The … Continue reading richard kelly – powerpoint deck with rare images
I had a flashback last night to my childhood: I remember my dad bought a book on outdoor landscape lighting that I loved reading as a kid. And sure enough, Amazon still lists it: Ortho Books “How to Design & … Continue reading ortho lighting book
TiltBrush is a prototype virtual reality painting system. Below is an awesome example of painting in 3D space while wearing a VR headset. Especially cool is the ability to paint “light” as a brush — sort of like paint with … Continue reading tilt brush and vr
Following is an insightful quote from a FastCompany article titled “Why Good Design Is Finally a Bottom Line Investment“: COMMODITIZATION PUSHES DESIGNERS TO THE FORE Innovation usually cycles between periods of raw, technical inventiveness and the finer task of packaging it … Continue reading technical vs. design innovation
I urge the lighting design community to stop obsessing over “independence” and start focusing on how to support and drive new forms of collaboration: Collaboration with customers; collaboration with manufacturers and technology suppliers; and collaboration with contractors. The drive to … Continue reading lighting designers: “independence” is cutting your potential short
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