Philips & Desso Partnership

Philips and Desso has announced their partnership. 
The reason behind this cooperation is really interesting. These two companies will work together to develop a carpet with LED lighting. The draft photos are pretty good. The product name will be revealed in 2014 as part of the full go-to-market launch. But they've already started to apply pilot projects at countries. Let see how soon it will start to be used at big projects??

Designers' Approach to Luminaires

Well as we all know many architects, interior designers also work on luminaire design to sometimes create a whole concept with the interior or to present an unique aesthetic object with the function of illumination.
Here we will take a look at a few design which belong different generations with different perspectives.  

Fish Lamps by Frank Gehry

Architect Frank Gehry has presented a new collection of his glowing Fish Lamps made of jagged plastic scales. Frank Gehry first produced his Fish Lamps between 1984 and 1986 using the then-new plastic laminate ColorCore.

Osram Sells the CFL Factory

Of course growing LED business is going to impact conventional solutions. Latest news are from Osram..

Osram have been already launched a saving program. The target for the total saving amount was 865 billion EUR. As a part of this program Osram announced that, their (mainly CFL produced) factory based in Shaoxing, China will be sold to Super Trend Lighting Group. Osram management says that, this decision is inline with their LED growth plans.

Acuity Brands & eldoLED

The big opportunity, LED business continues to witness huge investments and partnerships. The latest update is from America & Netherlands..

Regarding the latest news, one of the main actors of lighting Acuity Brands which already owns several brands has just acquired eldoLED which is an intelligent drivers manufacturer for LED-based lighting systems. (Terms of the acquisition have not been announced yet)

For sure, we’ll continue to hear from LED sector more and more! 

Lighting Designers / Case 1 : Murat Çap

They say DESIGN is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system. And it has different connotations in different fields. If we talk about LIGHTING DESIGN, it had been mostly considering a design for stage, theatre or visual show lighting for many years. 

But day by day its architectural part has become more and more important and people imagine famous buildings with light when 'lighting design' is mentioned.

So, architectural lighting design is a career right now. And there are many professional lighting designers around the world. The objective of architectural lighting design is to obtain sufficient light for the purposes of the building, balancing factors of initial and operating cost, appearance and energy efficiency.

We would like to learn more about these designers and their projects, their thoughts, ideas and opinions about this profession.

N0.1 - MURAT ÇAP

Murat Çap is a designer and consultant for atmosphere with light, sound, vision and energy saving.

He has launched his firm LUXWELT in 2002 and become the member of ‘Professional Lighting Designer’s Association (PLD-A)’ in 2008. He has worldwide projects such as Lacoste Boutiques, Airport Frankfurt, Mc Donald’s, Mercedes Benz Spot, Buyaka Mall and several hotels.

Let’s take a little look to the projects !

Buyaka Shopping Mall

If You Are Comparing LED manufacturers, ATTENTION !

There are too many LED types from many different manufacturers. If you would like to compare different LED brands, users should be aware of several criterias !

Reputation : Look for a company with a solid reputation and proven track record in the LED industry.

Support : Make sure that LED lighting manufacturer offers online and phone-based technical support.

City Symbols Illuminations

Illumination, to create perception; illumination, to beautify city views; illumination, to give soul on dark treasures...

Let's have a look at symbols of cities standing with all their glory during day time and the illuminations applied to  them to be distinguished and keep the glitter at night as well. 

London Eye

Worldwide LED Component Market Grows 9% With Lighting Ranking First Among All

LED component revenue for lighting applications reached $3.11 billion in 2012, narrowly dethroning the Large Area Display Backlight segment at $3.06 billion, according to Strategies Unlimited, the leading market research firm covering the LED industry.

The worldwide market for LED components was $13.7 billion and is expected to grow to $16.4 billion in 2017, for a CAGR of 3.7%.

Light Sculptures

What about bringing light into something tangible, liveable, noticeable in shapes? 
Something more than just being visible ?
Here are some examples about 'Light Sculptures' designed by different artists.

The Man with No Shadow / Makoto Tojiki 
LED sculpture 

http://www.makototojiki.com/man.html

A Different Area of LED Usage : GS Kalamis Swimming Pool

Galatasaray which is one of the biggest sports club in Turkey has launched its Kalamış Sports Facility in 1960 and made the opening of swimming pool in 1967 for the purpose of training and water polo games. The facility has been completely renovated in 2007 and become one of the favourite spots along bosphorus. 

Turn on the Lights NY!

With respect to New York's Grand Central Terminal's 100th birthday, there was a joyful event at the old building, yesterday! 

It was a nice example of how easy it is to create arts and fun with a few people & a creative idea & small colorful light sources.
Let's see this small show and the impact that it leaves at everybody's face! :)

DIY Chandeliers

As you all know, lately there is a new trend called DIY>Do IT Yourself. It's a nice way to show and improve creativity with fun projects. There are several examples for different types of DIY productions such as  dresses, bracelets, furnitures, paper works.. 

But, our topic (as you can imagine) is going to be the super-designed DIY chandeliers. Let's check out a few good examples:

* Here is an interesting & creative idea with test tubes:

http://www.mode34b.com/blog/diy-luminaire-14640/

Illumination Ban for "City of Light"

The Energy & Environment minister of France Delphine Batho unveiled a proposal last week.

The content of the proposal was to apply a ban to all Paris shops, offices and public buildings to turn-off their indoor & outdoor lights between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. so, let the "City of Light" to go dark at night hours. 

Then the secondary phase of the plan is to apply the same to all France towns.

Paris

Of course, as there are supporters for this idea, there are many antagonists as well. Let’s take a look at the reactions:

LEDs Anatomy and How LEDs work?

There are two basic types of LEDs  :

*Indicator-type
*Illuminator-type

Indicator type LEDs are inexpensive, low-power and suitable for electronic devices, cars and computers.

Let’s meet up with LED !

LED Lighting is already in use of many different locations and applications.

But what do we know about LED?

                D : Useful light for both indoor and outdoor applications

C : Provide a full spectrum of colors, full range of white color

                                               D : Energy efficient when it is compared to conventional lighting

C : Reliably deliver useful light for many thousands of hours  after FL or incandescent   sources have failed                      

D : Dynamic color-changing effects, large video displays, light shows

                C : Long life-time, resist damage by vibration, operate efficiently in cold temperatures

D : Lower the total cost, depending on scale even achieve the payback in less than one year