You can get pretty complacent when running an 80-plus-year-old family business. Or you can make like Luminarie De Cagna and stage a show no one will ever forget. The Italian family business, specializing in lighting and illumination, has been known to show its wares in amazing ways during public events.
Starting with oil and carbide lamps, Luminarie De Cagna then switched to electric lights, and started 2006, LEDS. Its latest spectacle was during the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Read the full story
Here is the latest project by Human Since 1982 : “Collection of light” is simply a collection of LEDs which together constitute a lamp in itself. The aim is to create an aura of a real collection (similar to a collection of insects) and expose each illuminant as a worthy industrial product. The LEDs are all Read the full story
GOODBYE EDISON is a French manufacturing company of contemporary lamps. As its name implies, it is a nod to the disappearance of traditional light bulbs and the advent of new light sources. Investigating the capacity of the LEDs to spread a softer indirect light for the user. Its lamps are fine, light, exquisite and go away from stereotypes and archetypes of traditional lighting.
Andrey Bartenev ’s installation Connection Lost is a glass tunnel, with fifty LED spheres with the words Connection Lost circling in their orbit. A heart inside each sphere symbolizes the potential frustration in the world of virtual connections. At the same time, the very message about lost connections, continues to multiply and reproduces itself with LED letters and mirrors. On the surface, the stage is captivating. With the lights and music mixed together, there is a sense of false happiness. It is a metaphor for the simulative communities that exist to give to give continued hope to a chance of an encounter.
