Jim on Light is written by Jim Hutchison, Chief Design Consultant of Another interesting concept from the Russian geniuses at Art Lebedev Studios is something they’re calling Air Crosswalk. Essentially, it is illumination for crosswalks, diffuse, and from above, minimalizing the chance that a pedestrian might not be seen in the night. These sources are suspended above the crosswalk itself, lighting the crosswalk and anything moving through it.
This concept is actually being implemented in Tumen, Russia in 2009.
[...] while ago, I wrote about Art Lebedev’s idea for night time pedestrian crosswalk illumination – Air Crosswalk is being implemented in a town in Russia. I hope to find some pictures of the [...]