Today's Daily Lamp is the most innovative, creative application for a challenge I've seen in a light that incorporates nature as a design element — meet design studio TOKEN in New York City's answer to the challenge, the GreenLight: The GreenLight is a prescription product developed for the xdesign Environmental Health Clinic. The light is [...]
Read More Fixtures, New York City, NYC, The Daily Lamp, TOKEN, VOC, volatile organic compounds
Today's Daily Lamp is a pretty cool conglomeration of sports culture and hip-hop design. Meet the 6FT 6IN lamp: In the birthing process of the 6FT 6IN lamp, which is an awesome little pair of sneakers and stick legs going to the shade, there was this as a teaser: 6ft 6in from Doubleday & Cartwright [...]
Read More Case Studyos, Grotesk, Kimou Meyer, NYC, Swiss, The Daily LampWhy? It's because I'm still awake, that's why! A friend sent me this video today – if there was ever a video that was meant for summer festival jamband video screen content, it's this one. Watch this in the dark, pay close attention to the colors and shadows this thing is gonna make all over [...]
Read More art, NYC, Rick Liss, VideoHave you all heard about Glowcamp? 20 or so people have written telling me about this event in NYC. From the Glowcamp website: GlowCamp is a free one-day intensive exploration of light as an aesthetic material. We're sharing the ideas and technologies used to work with light, and we're inviting you to come speak about [...]
Read More Glowcamp, NYCDo you remember Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Pulse Park installation in Madison Square Park? Rafael is back with some other very cool installation work, having finished it last weekend at the Guggenheim Museum. The work, called Levels of Nothingness, was an inspirational piece on Kandinsky's "Yellow Sound" essay from 1912. From Rhizome: Levels of Nothingness, which Lozano-Hemmer [...]
Read More art, Guggenheim, Levels of Nothingness, Light Art, light installations, NYC, Rafael Lozano-, Rafael Lozano-HemmerArtist Ron Arad created Lolita, the above fixture, back in 2004 – right now it's sitting at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC for an exhibit called No Discipline of Ron's work. The exhibit opens August 2 and runs through the 19th of October. It's an interesting work, isn't it? Swarovski crystals, LEDs that [...]
Read More MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Ron Arad, Swarovski crystalsAs jealous as I am that I won't be able to attend this year, the LightFair Trade Show and Conference starts tomorrow, Tuesday, May 5 and runs through Thursday, May 7, 2009. It promises to be a huge event – and if you're there, please take some pics for me! The LightFair event takes place [...]
Read More Conventions, LightFair, NYC, trade show