Graphic Lights: LZF Launches Stereovision

“Wood is in our DNA,” says Spanish lighting firm LZF. So, also, it seems, is artful communication. Known for their technologically innovative and visually expressive use of wood, LZF has just launched the second of two impressive communication campaigns which leverage original music, video, and print graphics to help their lighting models and ideas.

Stereovision is an extension of the firm’s 2013 High Fidelity campaign (beneath), in which new lighting designs have been introduced via a sophisticated suite of components—jazz-inflected music compilation, motion graphics video, range of Mid-Century-invoking CD covers—all of which gave expression to the clean geometry and graceful types of the business’s distinctive line of items. Buoyed after High Fidelity walked away with a Red Dot Award for branding final year, LZF sees Stereovision, another music and graphics endeavor, as “a natural evolution from High Fidelity…we are keen to continue our dialogue from that inaugural moment of modern day living embodied by the culture of the 50’s.”

Accompanied by a new remix of original compositions by L.A. musician Rithma (Etienne Stehelin), and fresh CD cover art, the Stereovision campaign focuses on new versions of lamps featured in Higher Fidelity, whilst introducing novel installation ideas and brand new 2014 styles. Stereovision will debut at the Light+Constructing trade fair in Frankfurt this week.

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LZF Lights Up Frankfurt’s Light+Creating Fair

On the heels of our current post on the multimedia Stereovision campaign being launched by Spanish lighting business LZF this week, come these photos from their astonishing—and astonishingly beautifiul—installation at Frankfurt’s Light+Constructing trade fair.  Stunningly illustrated are examples of LZF’s “Custom Constellations” notion of light clusters—ethereal arrangements comprised of numerous pendant models—proving once and for all that the only point much better than possessing a single LZF pendant may possibly be seeing all of them, all at once.

Photos: LZF

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David Trubridge Debuts New Lights In Frankfurt

Visitors fortunate sufficient to be attending this week’s Light+Creating design fair in Frankfurt will get an enlightening eyeful of David Trubridge. The New Zealand-primarily based designer will be launching two new lighting designs amidst a characteristically sumptuous booth installation anchored by a giant site-certain illuminated “tree.”

Trubridge’s two new launches (pictured above) are Hush, a dome-shaped pendant light that, doubling as acoustic device, comes outfitted with sound absorbing felt panels and Belle, a gently flared shade-only creation, created to effortlessly match more than existing pendant or wall light fixtures. Each Hush and Belle are formed with signature Trubridge modules of interlocking bamboo plywood, mindfully crafted to enable for flat-pack shipping and assembly with no tools.

The new lighting offerings and a suite of new furnishings will debut at Light+Building, the world’s largest lighting fair, presented alongside a magical installation comprised of earlier David Trubridge bestsellers, like the Coral and Koura pendants, and a bespoke floor-to-ceiling tree-like canopy, painstakingly assembled and installed by the designer and his team.

Images: David Trubridge

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‘Arkki’ Lights By Johan Kauppi For Blond Belysning (SE)

‘Arkki’ lights by Johan Kauppi for Blond Belysning

Johan Kauppi’s ‘Arkki’, the Finnish word for ark, was derived from the fixtures capacity to balance approach with soft shapes whilst somewhat resembling a craft or capsule.

‘Arkki’ lights by Johan Kauppi for Blond Belysning

“The shapes are also an expression of a restrained and functional design tradition from my background in northern Sweden.” says Kauppi.

‘Arkki’ lights by Johan Kauppi for Blond Belysning

Every Arkki lamp is constructed from a single, or two joined shells, of pressed felt. Surprisingly powerful, the shells efficiently assistance both light technologies and recessed diffusers in acrylic with only a couple of parts.

‘Arkki’ lights by Johan Kauppi for Blond Belysning

“By functioning with a sound absorbing material and efficient light technologies, a good acoustic- and light environment is ensured.”

The Arkki loved ones consists of ceiling fixtures and pendants, with a direct or direct – indirect light distribution. For the light source, each LEDs or fluorescents are standard choices. Regular colors are black, grey and white but a assortment of colors can be selected as an choice.

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Laval Table Lights By Hopf, Nordin (SE)

Laval table lights by Hopf, Nordin

Designers Andreas Hopf and Axel Nordin were inspired by the operating principle of kerosene lamps, an adjustable luminaire with clever routing of air through an adjustable burner and flue to maximise soot-less non-flickering illumination, for their Laval table lights.

Laval table lights by Hopf, Nordin

“Intent on decoding the kerosene lamp for the modern day age, we realised that a kerosene lamp’s airflow principle suits passive cooling of higher-efficiency LEDs rather properly.” says Hopf, Nordin. “An aluminium cylinder is capped on each ends with polished steel ventilation discs. The LED’s heat draws air from beneath, previous a passive heat sink, and exhausts it by way of a partially shot blasted borosilicate de Laval jet.”

Laval table lights by Hopf, Nordin

The table lights are named for Gustav de Laval, a Swedish engineer who, in 1893, received a patent for a steam turbine he created. Laval table lights are at the moment on display in the Greenhouse 2014 exhibition at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.

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