Mitosis is a modular lighting system that is always changing. Creator NONdesigns’ goal was to redesign the way that lights are turned on and off and enable users to not only control the amount of light being emitted, but the patterns, shapes and impressions that the lights create. Mitosis is [...]
Hardcoded Memory is a device that projects low-resolution photographs with LEDs through Swarovski crystal lenses. Designed by Troika, the motorized projector casts circular lights from each crystalline optic, creating intentionally blurred and pixelated images. According to the designers, “Experiencing the dream-like imagery on the gallery wall, the visitor is immersed [...]
Minnesota-based 3M, a company well-known for the development of sophisticated material technologies, has recently ventured into the rapidly-transforming realm of lighting design. Flex is a linear lighting system that incorporates both straight and curved modules, allowing the flexible integration of lighting into idiosyncratic or high-bay spaces. Designed and developed by [...]
The surface of soap bubble is commonly understood as a micro-membrane. This membrane allows light to pass through it, displaying the color of the light on its surface. Scientists at the University of Tokyo, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Tsukuba have developed an ultra-thin and flexible BRDF screen using [...]
With the demise of the incandescent bulb, scientists continue to seek alternative, efficient sources of illumination. Pure white light is especially important, and not easy to produce efficiently. Discovered in a lab at Vanderbilt University, white light quantum dots are micro-scaled fluorescent beads of cadmium selenide that convert LED-emitted blue [...]
In architecture, a doorway represents the transition from one space to another. Portal visually displays this moment of transition as a two-dimensional plane penetrated by light. As viewers watch light pass through the diffuser screen, clean lines become blurred and diffuse. Designed by James Clar, Portal celebrates the concept of [...]
Softwall + Softblock is a modular, space-shaping system of expandable/compressible honeycomb seating, partitions, and lighting conceived from the desire for flexible, spontaneous spacemaking. Opening a Softwall + Softblock element is a captivating tactile experience, as the honeycomb unfolds to create a completely freestanding structure that is hundreds of times larger [...]
Light Tape lamps alter one’s preconceptions about point based light sources. Imagine a lightbulb as thin as a credit card in any color that can be bent around any surface for hundreds and hundreds of feet, and that costs only a fraction of what traditional bulbs cost to operate. Developed [...]
The Dune Project projects a vision of a techno-centric nature and its creative application within public space. Viewers look at, walk around, and interact with a large, undulating field of light-emitting tubes. Designed by Studio Roosegaarde, Dune is an interactive landscape which responds to the location and behavior of people. [...]
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