Signify is slowly revealing more of its commercial-scale 3D-printing program, launching the consumer-focused offering “Philips MyCreation” in the Netherlands and Germany. MyCreation allows home consumers to mix and match from a massive variety of styles and colors to build their … Continue reading signify’s 3D-printed “MyCreation” series
As part of our Philips Luminous Patterns development efforts, Eline Slingerland developed virtual models of our products using the Unreal Engine as part of her internship at Philips Research. Unreal is normally a game development engine for serious Xbox and … Continue reading philips luminous patterns – virtual reality rendering experiments
A video detailing our two projects we displayed at Dutch Design Week and Glow Festival. They are still on display at the gorgeous Kazerne gallery and restaurant in Eindhoven – so treat yourself to a fabulous dinner with the future … Continue reading philips lighting at dutch design week
The DOE continues their long term accelerated testing of the Philips L-Prize winning bulbs from 2010. The lamps continue to give shockingly good performance, with the average lumen maintenance for the 31 lamps at 93.0%. At that rate, the average operating hours … Continue reading go, baby go: the philips L-prize lamps rock on
Check out Luminous Patterns at Dutch Design Week! We’ve installed our Light Forest piece, designed with Amsterdam design firm BCXSY, at the fabulous Kazerne restaurant and art gallery. And be sure to attend my seminar titled “Embedded Lighting” on 24-October at … Continue reading philips luminous patterns at dutch design week
It is so nice to see Philips Lighting finally package together a series of internal sustainability programs and initiatives into one comprehensive presentation to the public. Called “Bright Lives, Better World“, the program addresses a range of issues, such as … Continue reading philips lighting: bright lives, better world program
I’ve advocated in many forums that embedded lighting, particularly fusing patterns of light into architectural wall and ceiling surfaces, will become a major trend going forward, especially in office applications. My theory is that in natural settings we humans are instinctively … Continue reading using embedded lighting in office environments
Philips Luminous Patterns is featured in the August 2016 edition of Wallpaper*Magazine — go buy a copy now and turn to page 186! Luminous Patterns collaborated with Amsterdam design firm BCXSY for the “Hotel Wallpaper” exhibition at the Milan design … Continue reading philips luminous patterns: wallpaper* magazine
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
Ouch! Some tough love from analysts covering the Philips Lighting IPO. Continue reading welcome to the stock market…
Via Dezeen, a demo video by London-based visualization studio VRtisan showing the potential of the architectural design process in VR. My own group at Philips Lighting, our Luminous Patterns team, is experimenting with the Unreal Engine for live renderings of our … Continue reading unreal engine demo by vrtisan
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
Philips Lighting hosted a great interview with three leading lighting designers, Paul Traynor, Neil Skinner and Tapio Rosenius. I really enjoyed this discussion – in my opinion, its very on-point for what the real future and potential is for “lighting design”. … Continue reading future of lighting design
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 is … 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
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
Philips Luminous Patterns is officially launched: I’m thrilled that Eric Rondolat introduced Luminous Patterns as part of the keynote address for the December 9th Philips Lighting media day event in Eindhoven. Here is our link for the official PR release. Here is the image … Continue reading philips luminous patterns: officially launched
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
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