Scrap lights, made from twice recycled cardboard. Check it out here.
Light + Art, Products + Technology
Scrap lights, made from twice recycled cardboard. Check it out here.
Loemen light sculptures, handmade and designed by Dries Braeckman & Mireille Verroken. Check it out here.
Lighting designer Keith Parham shows us how color was used to create an uncomfortable atmosphere in his lighting of “Adding Machine: A Musical.” Check it out here.
The High Line was built in the 1930s as a 22-block stretch of short-haul freight elevated rail cutting through the Lower West Side of Manhattan. In 1980, the High Line carried its last run, was abandoned and virtually disappeared into the city’s urban jungle. Nearly 30 years later, in 2009, the High Line was reborn [...]
Light + Art, Products + Technology
Check out the amazing creations of Propellor Design here.
Light + Art, Products + Technology
Thelermont Hupton’s whimsical blown-up lighting creations can be found here.
A team of leading architects and engineers has unveiled designs for The Cloud–a landmark structure to commemorate London’s role as host of the 2012 Olympics. The lightweight transparent tower, composed of a “cloud” of inflatable, LED-light-emitting spheres, would create a spatial, three-dimensional display in the skies of London, fed by real time information from all [...]
Lighting artist Ben Livingston recently wrote to me to let me know he is creating and selling another limited edition of 60 signed and numbered neon “NEA Nightsticks” for the holidays (see photo). They are being sold at a special price of $350 (plus tax and shipping/handling/insurance). (For an extra $100 you can come to [...]
Energy + Environment, LED + SSL, Light + Art
Talk about enlightenment … Designer Taikkun Li’s Prayer Wheel Energy Generator is a Tibetan prayer wheel that harvests mechanical energy (tourists spinning the wheel) to power LED street lighting. Check it out here or view the below video.
A major new public artwork for Belfast, Ireland, entitled “Kit,” was recently unveiled at the public realm area at the Abercorn Residential Complex at Titanic Quarter as part of Belfast Festival at Queen’s. The high profile contemporary artwork is by Essex-based artist Tony Stallard and is the artist’s largest public artwork to date. “Kit” is [...]