I saw initially one of the two models (White & White LED Clock) and thought to myself… "Self, doesn't it seem weird that the letters don't have a black background for those days when the board room is bathed in sunlight?" Frankly I'm always just glad that I never hear myself answer back, so I'm [...]
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I'm going to just let this video speak for itself… Anything I say isn't going to begin to express the INSERT-EXCITED-AND-OVERWHELMINGLY-POSITIVE-ADJECTIVE-HERE-ness of this video. Thank you so much to Nicola Andrews for sharing this on her Tumblr, and to TED for sharing the fact that design and light can be just as inspiring as the [...]
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Studio Drift's Fragile Future has been a favorite of mine since I saw it years ago at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. And they're still cranking out the awesome! Flylight is another beautiful design from Studio Drift. Each piece is composed of at least 180 glass tubes, each individually controlled [...]
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Wow! The Bay Lights proposal is one of the coolest urban public lighting proposals I've seen in a while. The San Francisco Bay Bridge is a massive canvas, and an unparalleled location for a lighting playground. Numerous cities have treated their bridges with light, but for some reason, this particular proposal just glows: The Bay [...]
Read More bay, bridge, city, design, francisco, installation, landscape, lighting, proposal, san, urban, urbanizedOk, so maybe not quite. However, this is still neat: The BMW Group has been developing laser headlights for vehicles. With intensity a thousand times, a fuel consumption at less than half even their current LEDs, and a size one hundred times smaller, the desire to develop this technology is quite self-explanatory. This opens up all sorts [...]
Read More auto, car, design, driving, headlights, Industrial, Industrial Design, Laser, technologyI'm in Atlanta today and tomorrow judging the SETC 2011 Design Competition, which starts today. This is such an exciting time for student designers, and as students set up their design displays and get ready for judging, there is a lot of buzz here at the Atlanta Hilton! I'm going to be offering a very [...]
Read More competition, conferences, design, SETC, SETC 2011My favorite Lebanese lighting design firm, .PSLAB out of Beirut, has just finished another interesting project – a wine bar/restaurant called Burgundy. I just heard from my pal Ramsi at the firm this morning, and I am excited to share the project images! From the .PSLAB press release: A lighting project for a wine bar/restaurant [...]
Read More Beirut, commercial, design, interior, Lebanon, Lighting Design, PSLAB, restaurant, retail, WORKS.PSLABI just came across this product by my favorite Russian design studio, Art Lebedev Studios. The studio has designed this interesting USB hub – modeled after the idea of a prism splitting light into the colors of the rainbow: This thing is COOL! What I love almost more than Lebedev Studios products is their process [...]
Read More Accessories, Art Lebedev Studios, design, light up nerd toys, Spectrus, USB hubWe had some funny conversations in Sweden about the word "flashlight." You see, when you live in the US, a "flashlight" is the thing that you grab when you need a portable illumination device that can be powered with batteries. When you live everywhere else in the world, that flashlight is called a torch. "Hey, [...]
Read More Anarc, chandelier, design, DIY, Fixtures, flashlight, hack, torch, torch chandelierI just read a post at Young Architect about rendering – more specifically, the article was stating that rendering is something that should be "avoided at all cost." I am a bit shocked by the post – not because of the concept that rendering is difficult, but because you wouldn't render your design or architecture [...]
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