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
Back at the Integrated Systems Europe 2019 show, LG’s professional signage group demo’d their transparent OLED screens front-and-center in their massive booth. They’ve now launched a complete website with a real product on the market. Transparent OLED is interesting because … Continue reading LG’s transparent OLED tech
Some updates I’ve found for LG’s OLED program… Magnetic Mounting LG launched a very cool solution for attaching their panels to surfaces: A magnetic click connection with a 360 degree rotating electrical connection. The fundamental problem of how to use … Continue reading LG OLED – update
Interesting, via a promotional posting with Dezeen: LG is supplying linear OLED panels for what appears to be wall washing in a major museum project. OLED is lambertian, but in a linear configuration, it wouldn’t be the worst wall washer … Continue reading LG oled in the national palace museum of korea
Via Designboom. The winning project page can be found here. Diffus Design in partnership with Saint Gobain Research propose a combination of etextiles, LED, and OLED to create an embedded lighting concept for soft, acoustic ceiling tiles. According to the … Continue reading diffus design and saint gobain win LG OLED competition
Margreet de Kok, Senior Researcher at the Holst Centre, shows different methods to integrate OLEDs and LEDs in textile. Continue reading holst center: integration of LED and OLED into textiles
The promise of OLED’s has been around for years and years, so it is nice to see this mega installation from LG, in which they wrapped 216 curved 55″ displays to create an architectural scale tunnel experience. The massive resolution … Continue reading OLED has finally become an architectural surface
Philips recently announced its intention to divest its Philips’ OLED division. My colleagues in the OLED team did a fantastic job creating unique concepts for OLED and generated tremendous buzz for their products. I think the root cause is quite simple: … Continue reading philips lighting to divest OLED group
Via FastCompany, Idaho-based startup Rohinni is demoing a new application of LED lighting they are calling “Lightpaper”. Rohinni is using a mixture of ultra-small LED die suspended in conductive ink: In its current state, Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs … Continue reading lightpaper by rohinni
LG, through both its LG Innotek and LG Chem groups, seems to be investing rather heavily in design — and it is starting to show off in their lighting offerings. Although it all feels like LG is merely “testing the … Continue reading light + building 2014: LG
I recently presented at and attended the US Department of Energy’s Solid State Lighting 2014 R+D Workshop in Tampa, Florida. A terrific event, the US DOE’s SSL group uses this input from key industry participants to help guide their long-term funding programs with the goal of promoting the adoption of energy-efficient LED and OLED lighting technologies. You can find my slide deck here: 20140106_BK_DOESSL_2014 Workshop_Tampa_V3_extra annotations We need to find ways to reduce the total costs of advanced lighting systems. And as big a fan as I am regarding digital lighting technologies, I want our industry to leave behind a positive … Continue reading US DOE SSL R+D Workshop
Interesting interview in Digitimes with Philips Lumileds CEO Pirre-Yves Lesaicherre. I particularly find interesting the comment that 1000 lumens of LEDs will cost $1 by the end of this year. Posted below for posterity: The mid-power LED lighting trend: Q&A with Philips Lumileds CEO Julian Ho, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Thursday 12 September 2013] While mid-power LED chips account for only a small proportion of LED lighting currently, the proportion will grow fast over the next few years to reach about 50%, Philips Lumileds Lighting CEO Pirre-Yves Lesaicherre said during a Digitimes interview. Q: What is the trend of new LED lighting … Continue reading Q+A from Philips Lumileds CEO
WHITEvoid is the brainchild of Berlin designer Christopher Bauder and contains a most impressive collection of cutting-edge installation art, lighting design, media design, and software design. WHITEvoid developed the product design and web configurator (see image above) for the beautiful … Continue reading whitevoid
Following up on the Dezeen video, my colleagues at Philips Lumiblades will host a webinar regarding OLED tech on January 22nd. Mark your calendars…the future of lighting…in a Powerpoint! Continue reading philips lumiblades – webinar
Philips Lumiblade 2012 from Dezeen on Vimeo. Dezeen has just produced a nice video piece on Philips’ Lumiblade OLED technology division, in Aachen, Germany. Continue reading philips lumiblade on dezeen
For all of you complete lighting nerds out there, here is an excellent video from the non-profit Edison Tech Center about how LEDs and OLEDs are constructed, function, and their history. Enjoy… Continue reading edison tech center: LED video
There is a long-standing, latent demand for the incorporation of luminous surfaces into architectural spaces. Servicing this demand has been difficult, because fundamentally the only available light sources have been incandescent point-sources and fluorescent linear-sources. It is extremely difficult to … Continue reading construction site roll-formed fixtures
The Holst Centre is an independent research organization located at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven that tries to bridge the gap between academia and industry. The center has a variety of big name industrial partners and strong connections to … Continue reading The Holst Centre
An elegant OLED chandelier project from Cinimod Studio, a creative design firm that brought to life the innovative lighting solutions for the SNOG chain. OLED panels from Philips Lumiblade are cast directly into acrylic orbs and animated with some subtle … Continue reading cinimod studio – oled moon chandelier
Acuity seems to be making slow but steady progress on OLEDs (see my previous posts): Acuity’s OLED Lighting Design Center is showing an interesting new product design called the “Canvis” series. Although I did not attend, Acuity has posted to its … Continue reading acuity’s OLED canvis + lightfair presentation
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