SONNEMAN - A Way of Light

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Visit us at #BDNY 2016 to see Haro in booth 937 on November 13-14, featured in this month's @boutiquedesign #press #lighting

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"Disco Fever" - Check out new Arch Digest issue featuring SWL creative visionary, Robert Sonneman (page 82). Thank you Architectural Digest! #archdigest #design #press #rhmodern #lighting

[mymodernmet]

Cambridgeshire-based artist Chris Wood's beautiful, geometric arrangements of colorful glass create dazzling reflections and projections of light.

[design-is-fine]

Shiro Kuramata, Oba-Q Lamp, 1972. From The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction, Vitra Design Museum, 2010. Via Phaidon.

[artruby]

Antony Gormley, Breathing Room (2006 - 2012). 

[itscolossal]

These tiny shrimp-like crustaceans called ostracods have an incredible defense mechanism: when eaten by a translucent cardinalfish they release bioluminescent chemicals in an attempt to ILLUMINATE THE FISH FROM THE INSIDE. Not wanting to be eaten by predators itself, the cardinalfish immediately spits out the ostracod. [VIDEO]

[fastcompany]

This Architect Is Wearing His Wi-Fi Signal

There are invisible energy fields all around us. Now, one architect has invented a tool to introduce some of them to the spectrum of visible light.

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Biblio Lamp

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Amazing Dichroic Kite by 3M

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Deimatic Clothing by Will Verity

"Deimatic behaviour in animals means any pattern of threatening or startling behavior, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, so as to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape. I was interested if this behavior could be applied to the scenario of a cyclist being prey and a vehicle taking the role of predator.

The final garment works by using proximity sensors embedded into the back of the jacket that controls the LED back panel. If a vehicle is approaching too close to the cyclist, the jacket will respond with intermittent flashing. Because the proximity sensors can produce accurate readings of distance, the jacket has an idea of how fast a vehicle is approaching, and can adjust the light pattern to suit. The garment is produced from waterproof lightweight technical fabrics."

Video: http://vimeo.com/98971017

Source: http://www.willverity.com/Deimatic-Clothing

[archatlas]

Kuokkala Church OOPEAA

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Indoor LED Farm in Japan

Shigeharu Shimamura, a Japanese plant physiologist, has moved industrial-scale farming indoors. Shimamura converted a former Sony Corporation semiconductor factory in to the world's largest indoor farm - all lit by special LEDs, optimal for plant growth.

Opened in July 2014, the indoor farm is about half the size of a football field and produces 10,000 heads of lettuce per day. This LED-lit farm could be the first step to solving the world's food shortages.

Read the full article on GE Reports here.

[mymodernmet]

On a trip to Iceland, Spain-based photographer David Martin Castan captured the magnificent beauty of the Land of Fire and Ice at night in these spectacular landscape photos.

[interiordesignmagazine]

For NYC x Design, Bade Stageberg Cox found 49 chairs on the street, sent them to a taxi-repair shop to be painted, and arranged them in Times Square. Photography by Adrian Wilson.

[philamuseum]

Throwback Thursday to 1993–97 when Frank Gehry's design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, was constructed. Gehry has designed numerous buildings, including multiple museums. How does his redesign for the Philadelphia Museum of Art compare with some of his past work?

[crossconnectmag]

Fish Lamps by Frank Gehry

Iconic Canadian-American architect and artist Frank Gehry created a gorgeous sculptural series of fish lamps using jagged scales of ColorCore formica mounted on wireframes.

“After accidentally shattering a piece of ColorCore while working on a commission for Formica, he decided to use the broken shards as fish scales by glueing them onto wire armatures.”

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[scandinaviancollectors]

The Chrysler Building, New York, 1928-1930, by architect William Van Alen. / Google