I did have a hell of a time in San Francisco, that much has to be said. Between working our butts off to make the booth look great, not getting some of the gear we needed shipped for our booth, and stumbling around looking for a Starbucks, I had a BLAST! (Come on. I kid [...]
Read More Alive Lighting, California, Jim's Travels, Lighting Life, Mark Hetrick, Photonics West, Rick Hutton, San Francisco, tradeshowsThis thing is extremely cool – check out Swedish designer Jonas Wannfor's Krystall Chandelier: I love the new-age look of this fixture! I really want to put a lux meter near it and see what kind of output it has. It's essentially a big fiber optic chandelier – the light pump is hidden up inside [...]
Read More acrylic, Fiber-Optic, Fixtures, Jonas Wannfors, Y LightingBack in Plano, TX in the mall by our apartment there is a Swarovski Crystal store – walking by that store is like staring in the face of an exploding star. Lots of luxury products, lots of stuff I cannot afford, the color red, and gazillions of sparkling crystals. One thing I did not know [...]
Read More architectural, crystals, Fiber-Optic, honeycomb, LED, lighting, luxury, Plano, swarovski, Swarovski ArchitecturalI just read an article about lighting for stairwells – an interesting concept that includes illuminated railings along stairway walls: Zoran Sunjic's design for an LED-lit stairway rail is based on the idea that a stairway that has low light can be spruced up by his LED rail, or some energy-hogging fixtures can be replaced [...]
Read More civil lighting, hand rails, LED, public lighting, stairways, Zoran SunjicWybron put out a press release that I just now got – darn them internets! They just helped a church in Amarillo, TX make some magic in a very unconventional worship hall setup – arena seating! WYBRON'S TRANSITION, AUTOPILOT ILLUMINE TEXAS CHURCH When Trinity Fellowship Church of Amarillo, Texas, set out to design a new [...]
Read More AutoPilot, church, Fiber-Optic, Texas, worship lighting, wybronFiber optic deliciousness – this series of fixtures from Schemata Architecture Office is a colorful wonderland of fiber optic awesome – clusters of light fibers in some kind of controlled chaos formation. That's what I'm calling it, so there. This work is so crazy and so different to me that I could only use it [...]
Read More Fiber-Optic, Kurage, SchemataGwenael Nicolas' invention, the Mist Bench, is an interesting creation of a seat and an interactive object. The fibers in the bench, a coarse blend of optical fibers, respond to people as they get closer to the bench. The entire bench has been hand-knotted – for me, that's one of the coolest things about it. [...]
Read More Fiber Senseware, Gwenael Nicolas, Milan, Mist BenchThis is an interesting concept – a baseboard that provides a little illumination on the walls and floor in dark spaces while being low profile and relatively simply. Light Way, which I first saw on Yanko's website, is all fiber-optic and takes light from a light pump somewhere in the installation and delivers it to [...]
Read More baseboard illumination, Dan Fitcher, Dan Tafe, Fiber-Optic, Hayley Rosen, Keisha Stole, Light Way