It looks like Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee weren't as innovative as I thought – at least first anyway. Sander Mulder, one of the two designers collaborating on the now defunct Buro Vormkrijgers (the other being Dave Keune, who I will write about later in the week) designed a very similar device – [...]
Read More aluminum, dave keune, Eun Hak Lee, eureka, Hyun Jin Yoon, laser cut, LED, sander mulderA press release at BARCO talks about Paul Rodgers and Queen's latest tour, "The Cosmos Rocks." Why is this a big deal? I asked myself the same question until I read about the OLITE 612 LED display that's on this show. From BARCO's product page: The new OLite 612 has a pixel pitch of 12mm [...]
Read More BARCO, OLITE, OLITE 612, Paul Rodgers, Pink Floyd, Queen, StufishRoyal Phillips (you know, Phillips – the company that makes lamps) has a bunch of new technologies geared towards green living, "simplicity," and sustainability. Inspired by a post at Inhabitat about Phillips' Interactive LED Light Bulb, I started researching their new line of "Simplicity" branded stuff. I must say, holy crap. The basis for their [...]
Read More LED, Phillips, Royal Phillips, SimplicityOne of the writers for the Yanko Design blog, Billy May, created a series of sort-of wall-integrated LED lighting fixtures – referred to as "torn lighting," they blur the edge between structure and fixture. I love the description on the site: Anyone who has spent a significant period of time either living in a small [...]
Read More billy may, interior, LED, torn lighting, YankoLED Magazine published an article about a new LED ribbon product to hit the market from Tradekey – a flexible product, waterproof, with unlimited possibilites for applications. Theatrically, I'm sure you could come up with eleventy billion uses for the product, as I have come up with about 7 billion so far. Some specs: 1. [...]
Read More LED Magazine, LED ribbon, tradekey, waterproofYanko Design's blog posted an article a week or so ago about Ira Rozhavsky's design for "Shattered Lights," a lamp made from white LED's, broken tempered glass, and a silicone lining cont5aining the whole thing. Apparently you're able to bend, twist, and shape the lamp into whatever configuration you'd like. Check it out:
Read More Ira Rozhavsky, LED, shattered lamp, yanko designStudio 1000 and Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn have produced a beautiful fixture made from a mass of 3mm LEDs attached to strands in a star-explosion like formation. The lamp is quite beautiful – I don't think one would do it for me though. I can see about thirty of these in a large room. I *highly* recommend [...]
Read More constellation lamp, Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn, LED, studio 1000, yanko designMost of us only know LED light sources as little bright things that are in electronic components – or, if you're in the industry, another low-energy consuming source that is getting brighter and brighter. I found a post at Madehow.com that lists the manufacturing process of "growing" LED lamps. I highly recommend reading it! There [...]
Read More educational, growing LEDs, LED, manufacturing, wafersIn an article at Optics.org, Rubicon Technology is listed as delivering news that they are having some shortfalls in selling the 2-inch LED wafers that they spent some time developing – and that they are now going to soon enter production on a 6-inch LED wafer. All of this news comes as Samsung is suspected [...]
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