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

Welcome Illuminations for 2013

Since we’ve just get through 31th of December and welcome a brand new year, why don’t we post some interesting stuff about new year celebrations???

Here are some good examples where cities gain souls with joyful and colorful illuminations. Let’s check them!

Hello!

Hello!

Human, city, architecture, innovation, technology, energy..

How big is the correlation between these and light & illumination? Don’t you have an idea? Let us give a few examples: