February 3rd, 2012
Sometimes, art isn’t exactly what it seems. This picture, for instance, disappears completely if you switch the light off that’s shining through the plexiglass airplanes hanging from the ceiling.
It really is a beautiful piece. I love that the idea builds on the concept of the toy planes that used to hang from our bedroom ceilings, but manages to turn them into something so wonderful-looking. It’s a real shame we had to crop the photo for the site, but you can see it in all it’s glory just below.
The artwork is currently on display as part of the ‘Fly to Baku‘ Contemporary Art Exhibition at the De Pury Gallery in London, UK. The exhibition aims to showcase the growing contemporary art scene of Azerbaijan and its capital, Baku. If it’s all this good, I’m ready to be impressed.
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January 18th, 2012
Chandelier designed by Kateřina Smolíková is inspired by deep sea luminescent organisms. It is intended to be for darker places as an orientational light. It should remind the lightnes of this organisms levitating in the dark space. Light source used in the light is LED which is most energy efficient light source nowadays. Designer has received the Outstanding Student Design Award for her project.
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January 4th, 2012
About the Project
LuminAID Lab is proud to introduce the LuminAID light: a solar-rechargeable, inflatable lamp that packs flat and inflates to create a lightweight, waterproof lantern. Safe, sustainable, and portable, the LuminAID light provides up to six hours of LED light, ideal for disaster relief situations, recreational use outdoors, or in the home as an extra light source. Our mission: make light more affordable, sustainable, and available for everyone.
via: indiegogo.com
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January 2nd, 2012
Studio Daniel Libeskind unveiled the first lighting design by founding architect Daniel Libeskind. Created in collaboration with Austrian lighting company Zumtobel, the limited-edition eL Masterpiece chandelier is distinguished by its striking design and sophisticated technology.
Daniel Libeskind’s eL Masterpiece chandelier is roughly nine feet tall and two-and-a-half feet wide. It weighs 350 pounds. A luminous, sharp-edged, cascading shape, the chandelier has a highly-polished stainless steel exterior and a stainless-and-23-carat-gold-plated-leaf interior.
Illumination is provided by 1,680 specially designed LED modules that have the ability to create seven color scenarios. The scenarios can be called up wirelessly via a special iPad app that activates individual built-in mechanisms attached to each module (LEDs are usually controlled by a single external mechanism).
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January 24th, 2011
New York School of Interior Design - The MPS in Interior Lighting Design focuses on natural and artificial illumination for the interior environment. It offers a range of skills and techniques, both conceptual and practical; history and theory of lighting design; sustainability principles; integrated system design; as well as financial analysis, code compliance and project maintenance.
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November 4th, 2010
Just launched! learn2light now has a comprehensive list of books focused on design, not including the technical & engineering aspects, of light, gathered for the IALD Education Trust by lighting designers led by Philip Gabriel. You now have access to a very well researched selection to choose from, and, can also vote for your favourites. Help us make the list grow by contributing with your own suggestions in this thread. After review, your contributions may be added to the existing list.
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November 3rd, 2010
Politecnico di Milano’s Laboratorio LUCE, is a Lighting Design Master that aims to create professional profiles in the field of lighting design – in interiors, museums, hotels, show business, retail and urban exteriors. Attention is focused on analysis and synthesis of a methodological process toward the realization of a lighting solution.
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August 28th, 2009
An urgent news release issued by the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) sent late Tuesday evening alerts its members that the Texas Legislature is scheduled to vote today on Texas House Bill 2649. The proposed legislation relates to the regulation and practice of engineering and lighting design. Specifically, Sections 3, 5, and 6 restricts the practice of lighting design only to licensed engineers, architects, engineers, landscape architects, and interior designers. The bill makes no recognition of the National Council on Qualifications for Lighting Professions exam or individuals who have passed this exam and received the Lighting Certified (LC) designation. If passed, the proposed legislation would go into effect on Sept. 1, 2009.
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August 21st, 2009
Silver Spring, MD—The National Lighting Bureau’s 30th annual High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program is under way. This unique program is open to virtually anyone associated with a High-Benefit Lighting® installation: owners, designers, facility or property managers, contractors, manufacturer’s representatives, utility employees, and users, among others.
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August 14th, 2009
Silver Spring, MD—The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) reaches millions of lighting decision-makers each year; more in 2008 than ever before.
According to NLB Chair Robert W. “Rob” Colgan, Jr. (National Electrical Contractors Association), “Lighting decision-makers need to understand what High-Benefit Lighting© is all about and how it’s changing. When the Bureau began in 1976, our mission was to publicize the bottom-line benefits of better lighting, so the owners and managers of buildings and processes could use lighting to achieve improved productivity, fewer errors and rejects, better security, enhanced safety, improved retail sales, greater building resale value, and so on. We created the term ‘High-Benefit Lighting’ to symbolize what good lighting could do. While we still use the term, it’s come to mean more than just bottom-line benefits. We have helped promote awareness of new discoveries that illustrate lighting’s ability to support good health and even help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. We have also broadened our audience by making our message germane to more than those in the commercial and industrial markets, including homeowners and others who can benefit from the information we have to share.”
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