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Mathieu Lustrerie's Magical World of Crystal Lighting
Totem, Meteorite and Abyss may all sound like names from an ancient time or a far away land. ?And truthfully they are, however they also exhibit the magical world of the lighting designer, Mathieu Lustrerie's ...
Brand Van Egmond's Hollywood Icicle Chandelier
Designed by William Brand and Annet Van Egmond of Brand Van Egmond in 1996 the Hollywood Icicle Chandelier was inspired by the experiences they found in nature. Like a tree after an ice storm, shiny with a ...
LED control gear The ability to specify and develop the right control gear is an essential part of ERCO´s competence in optoelectronics. ...
RAF Museum Reaps Retrofit Benefits
The RAF Museum in north London has carried out an extensive retrofit lighting project, which is seeing it enjoy energy savings of 70 per cent, with a return on investment in just one to two years. Over the ...
Ice Nights: Ice Climbing at Night with Lights
Everyone needs lighting, especially ice climbers that choose to climb at night. Professional climbers Alex Luger and Hanno Schluge take to climbing an ice wall in Avers, Switzerland at night. The results… well ...
Saving Kenya with 1000 MwangaBora Solar Lamps
This 19 year old Kenyan designer new that there was a better alternative than kerosene. In Africa kerosene lamps are still used in many areas and cause great harm to children and adults in rural African ...
Plant Seed Bombs Spread Flowers Not War
Spring is here and so is the time for gardening. Designers are taking the bull by the horns with a new way of planting. Seed bombs, the idea originated from animals scattering the seeds of plants by ingesting ...
The Derezzed Watch: Unravelling a Matrix of Time
The Derezzed watch displays time like no other. ?As new to the market as the calculator watches were in the 1980′s, this watch displays time through a show of shapes and light?pixelation. Using a hexagon based ...
When it comes to designing - or perhaps redesigning if you are opting for a renovation project - the interior of a room, many people overlook the finer details, which more often than not can be the ...
Lighting 'to Help Cambridge Public Feel Safer'
Three-quarters of residents in a survey have shown their support for plans to install new lighting on Parker's Piece in Cambridge. The area is popular with both tourists and people who live in the region. ...
Docstone & Mister Boom Little Miss Dynamite
This edgy and explosive lighting design exhibits no?discreetness?and demands to be noticed. Designed by the German based?company?Docstone, their sense of humor and?ability?to play with design shines through in ...
Artemide's Copernico 500 Lamp: 384 Rotating LEDs
The nine concentric mobile ellipses of the 'Copernico 500′ suspension lamp were created from one single piece of aluminum. The nine shapes are capable of rotating independently on two different axes, allowing ...
Carlotta De Bevilacqua Artemide's Mystical Empathy Lamp
Like a bubble of magical glowing glass, the new LED light by Artemide?emanates a mystical glow. The Empathy Lamp was designed by Carlotta De Bevilacqua and uses a central rod full of LEDs and a glass outer ...
Super Mario Table Lamp: Capture The Fun
Lighting is beautiful, lighting is artistic and now lighting is fun! Using Nintendo’s Super Mario Brother’s video game theme, this lighting designer made an other worldly like display, the best part – it is ...
World's Largest Video Game Controller
The world’s largest video game controller was designed and built by a couple of electrical engineering students from the Netherlands based Delft University of Technology. Measuring nearly 12 feet long by 5 feet ...
LED Lighting Project: GANT flagship store
GANT flagship store GANT flagship store The GANT flagship store located in the Myslbek shopping centre in Prague exclusively uses LED lighting. ...
Rimt and Barco in India Forge Strategic Partnership
Real Image Media Technologies (RIMT) has recently entered into a strategic partnership with Barco in India that will bring 3,000 projectors to theatres across India in the next three years. The first 700 units ...
Philippe Starck's "Chapeau"; Table Lamp
“Chapeau” is the French term for hat, this is also the new name for the lighting designer Philippe Starck‘s “Chapeau” table lamp. Designed for Flos this charming new design made its debut at this year’s Salone ...
Patricia Urquiola The Story of The Caboche Light
The story of lighting is extraordinary and spans centuries of time. The story of the Caboche collection by Foscarini is timeless and in narrated Italian, but still a delightful tale (don’t worry there are ...
Paul Heijnen'sLifelike Hyperion Spotlight
Paul Heijnen’s walking wooden box lamp has an explorative personality, it shuffles, it bends, it moves around his narrated short film (see video below) while addressing a new way to market lighting. This hot ...
