AC-ET lights up British Grand Prix party
(UK) – A.C. Entertainment Technologies celebrates ten years of producing lighting design for the BRDC Grand Prix Party.
A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. produced the lighting design for the British Racing Drivers’ Club's (BRDC) glamorous annual British Grand Prix Party, held at Silverstone Circuit on Saturday 15th July.
Staged every year within the grounds of the BRDC Farm as part of the Formula 1 Rolex British Grand Prix weekend, the occasion attracts high-profile members and personalities from the world of motorsport.
This year's event marked a decade for AC-ET's Patronage of the British Racing Drivers’ Club’s exclusive ‘Rising Stars’ Programme, and as supplier of the creative lighting design for the British Grand Prix Party.
Working closely with the BRDC to create the lighting theme for this year's event, AC-ET supplied the complete indoor and outdoor effects lighting systems incorporating nearly 150 fixtures. This included some of the very latest static and moving LED technologies from ProLights. The project was overseen by Andy Walne Smith, in-house production manager at AC-ET.
For the event's two-storey VIP hospitality marquee, separate daytime and evening lighting schemes were needed for the downstairs dining and lounge areas, and the upstairs bar and DJ/live band entertainment areas.
A flexible package of ProLights Luma700, Stark 1000, Razor 440 and Diamond range LED fixtures provided wash and static lighting during the day. During the evening, the luminaires delivered high quality coloured effects and moving beam lighting – creating a lively and dynamic atmosphere for the party's bars, dance floor and performance areas. More than 40 ProLights Solar IP65 colour-mixing LED wash lights illuminated the exterior of the marquee and the Farmhouse, as well as the surrounding trees and garden – extending the ambience of the party into the outdoor spaces.
BRDC Events Manager, Hannah Thompson commented: “With a host of Formula One drivers present, alongside over three hundred BRDC Members and guests, the pressure was on to deliver a first-class event. The result was sensational and the feedback confirmed that, once again, A.C. Entertainment Technologies had pulled out all the stops. The company delivered an exceptional lighting display.”
illumination Physics expands to Europe
(Germany) - Illumination Physics are delighted to announce their opening of a new European office and welcomes a new European Manager.
Performance milestones were put in place as precursors to activate their journey to the West, once they had fully established their capability of handling numerous large-scale projects simultaneously within their own region.
With this also came the capability of manufacturing the fabrication needed to illuminate at least two of the world’s largest structures at the same time.
The final component for their performance milestones was about their personnel. With a specific business culture, they aim to be entirely project orientated rather than following industry traditions.
“Why get it almost right, when with a little more effort, the lighting could be perfect!”
The lighting industry is sprinkled with visionaries, but illumination Physics believes the layer is thinning and they can take lateral thinking to another level.
illumination Physics is delighted to announce that Martin Opolka will assume the role of European Manager. Opolka is a career lighting professional and his experience and specialisation are ideally suited to illumination Physics’ core business in architectural and architainment façade lighting. Some of Opolka’s more notable roles in the industry were with Zumtobel, A&O Lighting Professional and Martin Professional, an array of technical qualifications and management roles. Additionally, Opolka has been responsible for many international Light-Art Projects, like Lichtrouten, Ludenscheid, Germany.
“My new role as European Manager for illumination Physics represents an exciting challenge that I’m honoured to accept,” says Opolka. “I have known the company directors and have been familiar with their work for many years and am delighted now to be part of its success story.”
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Keynote speakers announced for IALD Enlighten Americas
(USA) - The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) is proud to announce the keynote speakers for its 17th annual IALD Enlighten Americas conference this 12-14 October in Denver, Colorado.
OPENING KEYNOTE: ROBERTO SCHAEFER, ASC/AIC
Cinematographer Roberto Schaefer, ASC/AIC will open the day on Friday, 13 October with a keynote address about his experiences working in film and video, exploring the connection between light and film. Roberto attended art school and received a BFA degree in multimedia and conceptual art with a minor in photography. He began making moving images in his childhood using his father’s 8mm camera. These included early music videos as well as dramatic and experimental shorts. After a 4-year hiatus traveling the world and discovering life, Roberto started as a producer of TV commercials in New York.
In 1982, Roberto moved to Roma, Italy to shoot a feature film for a friend. In 1992, after 3 features, hundreds of TV commercials, music videos and documentaries, he moved to Los Angeles to try the Hollywood film world. Since then he has shot more than a dozen films, hundreds of music videos and TV commercials, and documentaries – including Stranger Than Fiction, The Kite Runner, Quantum of Solace, Leaves of Grass, and The Host.
CLOSING KEYNOTE: RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER At the close of sessions on Saturday, 14 October, attendees will be treated to a talk from Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, an electronic artist who develops interactive installations at the intersection of architecture and performance art. He creates platforms for public participation by subverting technologies such as robotics and computerized surveillance. Rafael was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale, with an exhibition at Palazzo Van Axel in 2007. He has also shown at Biennials and Triennials in Cuenca, Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Montréal, Moscow, New Orleans, New York ICP, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney.
His public art has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the Tlatelolco Student Massacre memorial in Mexico City (2008), the Vancouver Olympics (2010) and the pre-opening exhibition of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi (2015). His work is in collections such as MoMA in NYC, Tate in London, MAC in Montréal, SFMOMA in San Francisco, MONA in Hobart, and MUAC in Mexico.
Trilux celebrates E-Line's Silver Jubilee
(UK) – TRILUX is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its E-Line luminaire by improving its luminous efficacy to up to 169 lumens per watt.
E-Line, TRILUX’s high-performance continuous line luminaire, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
To mark the occasion, TRILUX is making the E-Line solution more efficient by equipping it with an improved luminous efficacy of up to 169 lumens per watt, cutting operating costs compared to conventional lighting solutions.
Offering quality, flexibility and adaptability, the E-Line has grown over the past 25 years into an industry benchmark across Europe. But what began as a reliable continuous line for industrial uses has become a diverse solution for retail spaces and more recently offices and classrooms, with the introduction of a UGR19 version for screen usage. With luminous flux levels from 4,000-20,000 lm, eight different optics, choice of beam characteristics and various protection ratings, there is an E-Line to fulfil every lighting task.
“From an installer’s perspective, working with E-Line is a dream,” said Simon Hegarty of Encore Electrical Ltd. “The installation process couldn’t be simpler – it goes up in a fraction of the time of other systems and the build quality is superb, minimising costly site visits to replace faulty units.
“TRILUX really support the installer too, helping with lighting designs and offering one of the best product warranties available today. This is refreshing to find in a manufacturer and ensures that our clients get the light levels they need from a system that is reliable and energy efficient.”
St. Petersburg to be a centre of Russian lighting culture
(Russia) – The fourth annual International Research-to-Practice Conference on Lighting Design will be held in St. Petersburg on October 12th-13th.
The Russian Creative Association of Lighting Designers, RULD, and the Higher School of Lighting Design at ITMO University (CLD ITMO University) have announced the fourth International Research-to-Practice Conference on Lighting Design in 2017.
The event will be held at the high-tech New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre on October 12th–13th 2017, and will bring together Russian and international experts from the fields of lighting design, architecture, multimedia, urbanism, art, IT and engineering.
The International Research-to-Practice Conference on Lighting Design is a unique annual conference in St. Petersburg and is a key platform for the interaction of domestic and international representatives in the fields of science, business, art and the innovation sector to implement this programme.
The main goal of the conference is to connect science with business through art and innovative technology to develop a competitive market of lighting design and produce new ideas and trends. More than 500 architects, lighting designers, engineers, IT and multimedia specialists, scientists, representatives of Russian government, top-managers, set designers, producers and artists are expected to attend this year’s conference and discuss the main theme of ‘Identity’.
The two-day event features four general panel discussions, more than 20 presentations, workshops and lectures given by key Russian and international experts. In addition to the main programme, there will also be cultural and social events arranged, as well as open lectures for the city to promote the development of lighting culture and to increase awareness and knowledge amongst the local citizens in the field of science and light.
Furthermore, during the conference the first International Lighting Design Competition awards ceremony will be held during the Festival ‘Night of Lights in Gatchina’. The competition is organised by St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution of Culture’s ‘National Reserve-Museum Gatchina’ and CLD ITMO University, with the support of the Committee of Culture of St. Petersburg.
The best installations from the competition were displayed for the visitors of the festival on the 12th August, along with professional installations that are included in the event’s main programme. The festival’s expert jury will choose the winner of the competition, while the winner of the online poll will get the Audience Choice Award. The prizewinners will be announced at the International Research-to-Practice Conference on Lighting Design.
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Aurora and BMW partner for first smart lighting pilot
(UK) – Aurora Lighting and BMW are to begin beta testing AXiO, a new connected lighting scheme, powered by Gooee.
Aurora Lighting has partnered with BMW to carry out its first smart lighting pilot scheme following the recent announcement of its new enterprise connected lighting platform, AXiO.
BMW is focusing on challenging and testing new experiences in which customers select, enjoy and purchase ‘the ultimate driving machine’. With a customer’s lighting design experience needs at its core, Aurora’s projects and IoT division will be working in partnership with BMW to develop and test a customer-centric retail lighting hardware platform and IoT experience, all powered by Gooee, to help BMW achieve its goals.
With the AXiO lighting platform, BMW will receive much more than just a bespoke lighting design. The car manufacturer will have the ability to manage and deliver an engaging end-to-end customer experience that immerses the user at the level they want to engage.
Aurora recently exclusively previewed its new smart lighting platform, AXiO, at EuroShop in Düsseldorf, revealing to the retail sector how the new system will deliver exceptional Value Beyond Illumination.
Gary Bennett, Managing Director of Aurora Projects, said: “With the AXiO platform, the lighting enables a new dimension of sensing and control. From enhancing a car’s assets when a customer approaches it to the delivery of immediate tailored information as they’re walking through the door, the BMW customer experience will be very different to that elsewhere. Smart lighting has the potential to create significant competitive advantages.”
AXiO is a smart lighting platform powered by Gooee – the IoT enabling technology that significantly enhances business intelligence and revenues by providing data on energy efficiency, human engagement and space optimisation, while giving users a range of dynamic toolsets and intuitive Man Machine Interface (MMI) features to manage the system from one location.
The smart lighting installation was completed with BMW in Munich the first week of May 2017.
Neil Salt, Managing Director of IoT at Aurora, said: “This is an exciting opportunity for Aurora’s IoT division and hardware engineering teams to work in partnership with BMW and be selected for this innovative retail lighting project. They have some amazing concepts and it ratifies the development of Aurora’s smart platform AXiO and the fantastic connected experiences that can be delivered by the Gooee ecosystem.
“With two highly technical and engineering businesses working in harmony, we really can demonstrate Value Beyond Illumination.”
Philips Lighting, Lightolier Calculite LED Downlights Generation 3
The third generation of this LED downlight range produces warm, soothing light. Soft beam transitions ensure flawless, consistent light in offices, educational institutions, and catering or retail spaces. The three-part system allows for a tool-free plug and play connection that is safe both from a mechanical and electrical point of view. Lightolier Calculite is available with a large selection of interchangeable optical assemblies, lumen packages and beam spreads.
Nordlux, Front
This wall lamp was conceived to provide subdued lighting for outdoor areas. The gently curved lines of the light fitting direct the light downwards and, in so doing, illuminate specific outdoor areas. As it is mounted flush with the wall, the black casing of the lamp stands out distinctly from its surface. The harmonious appearance will suit a number of architectural styles.
Wipro Enterprises, Verge LED
Verge LED is a versatile ceiling light for work and hospitality areas. It can be installed on grid or built-in ceilings, or suspended at different heights. The ceiling light completes itself with the architectural elements of the space it is going to belong to, creating a unique volumetric lighting experience. A carefully thought through LED configuration as well as the thermal management with the aluminium housing ensures a highly efficient supply of light.
Artemide, Discovery
When this pendant light, which is also available as a wall light, is switched on, a seemingly empty frame turns into a circular light area. An LED strip in the slim round aluminium profile fills the transparent light body with homogenous light. This effect is achieved through small micro incisions in the luminaire surface, which are barely visible when the light is switched off.
Linea Light Group, Oxygen
This LED lamp series consists of a pendant light with a matching wall light, a ceiling light, as well as a standard lamp in a curved and a straight version. The acrylic glass diffuser, set into a lampshade made of polyurethane, has invisible micro-engravings, which deflect the direction of the light beams. When turned off, the diffuser is completely transparent. The series is available in an elegant black or white, as well as in yellow or pale blue.
EcoSense Lighting, RISE
Meticulously designed to the last detail, the RISE lighting system incorporates a multi-faceted light platform made up of energy-efficient spot, accent, landscape and floodlight fixtures. The RISE lighting system impresses with its aesthetically distinctive and compact design as well as its powerful technical features such as a five-degree beam angle and a light output of 300 to 11,000 lumens – it thus embodies an impressive new tool for lighting designers.
