O/M One
One is a ceiling-recessed luminaire with precise beam angles for general and accent lighting. It is the first range of downlights to use Lightcore, an optic micro-reflector developed by O/M and Bartenbach. One offers a defined beam with no light spill and excellent glare control. Using one of the best LEDs on the market, One provides great comfort and colour rendition, with a CRI of over 90. The luminaire is available in three different sizes and three beam angles.
LED Linear XOOTOO
Small, innovative, of high quality and equipped with the latest LED lighting technology – XOOTOO meets expectations in virtually every area. Set into a small aluminium profile, the linear LED luminaire is inconspicuous and provides a direct / indirect emission characteristic. It is highly modular by using up to fifteen different LED lamps with up to 4,000 lm/m and a range of decorative diffuser and functional reflector optics. Thus it is ideal for demanding lighting tasks from ambient to task lighting.
Heper Vega Family
The Vega product family is using Heper’s latest HYBRID technology - a specially designed optical system that combines the reflector with an additional lens, which provides several advantages compared to the classical approach. With HYBRID, the user can have control over light beam, glare control and high efficiency, all combined in one system. The family has a lumen package starting from 450lm up to 3,000lm with CCT options as 3,000K, 4,000K or RGB White.
ERCO Cantax
The Cantax recessed track spotlight features clear lines, brilliant light and precise light distribution. Ideal for shops and museums, it’s available in different sizes and shallow recess depths that facilitate easy ceiling integration regardless of the space’s height. Thanks to the tiltable and rotatable luminaire head, it can be adjusted individually. The efficient system of collimating and interchangeable Spherolit lenses provides the designer with a variety of light distributions.
Marl CITILED COB Series VIVID Type
The CITILED COB Series is now available with four colour variations, White (4,200K), Warm, (3,400K), Warm Plus (3,200K), all of which with a colour rendering greater than Ra90, and an additional Light Pink, (3,700K and Ra65). Offering more faithful colour rendering, these products are ideal for retail and commercial lighting applications, ranging from bright white light illumination, warm lighting atmospheres and simulation of many types of conventional lighting technologies.
Wendy Luedtke named ETC product technology specialist
(USA) - Wendy Luedtke brings over fifteen years' experience designing lighting for theatre, live entertainment, corporate events, and architectural projects to ETC's Advance Research Group.
In February, ETC expanded its research efforts, creating the Advance Research Group (ARG) to uncover new technologies and boost current product capabilities. ETC has hired Wendy Luedtke to join the ARG as a product technology specialist. She will work closely with lighting professionals to identify their most important issues, helping the ARG develop technology that tackles their problems and opens new possibilities.
“The ARG facilitates innovation, allowing new ideas to be explored in every area of R&D,” described ETC CEO Fred Foster. “With Wendy coming on board, we can be certain that we’re developing the right tools for lighting designers to use in the real world.”
One of the first projects the ARG has been working on involves LED colour control. Last year’s award-winning Eos v2.3 software upgrade is just the beginning of an initiative to revolutionise colour control in ETC consoles. Luedtke will be reaching out to designers, and applying their input – along with her own knowledge and experience in the field – to the project.
Luedtke joins ETC after six years with Rosco Laboratories, Inc., where she was the product manager for colour and lighting. She is currently an adjunct instructor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Drama, the chair of the Color Committee for the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and a member of the PLASA-TSP Photometrics Working Group and United Scenic Artists Local 829. She holds a BFA in Technical Production from New York University, and has more than fifteen years of experience designing lighting for theatre, live entertainment, corporate events, and architectural projects.
“The opportunity to advocate for designers, programmers and other lighting professionals, and to participate in this level of research is both an honour and a responsibility I do not take lightly,” said Luedtke. “I am thrilled to join this team and get to work improving the quality of light.”
dpa lighting consultants to open Edinburgh studio
(UK) – New office to be engaged with Middle East, Scotland and North of England projects.
With offices in Dubai, Japan, London and Oxfordshire, dpa lighting consultants has announced that it will be opening a new studio in Edinburgh, Scotland later this year.
The practice is driven by the individual team members; with the return of Douglas Brennan to dpa eighteen months ago, opening an office in Brennan’s home city seemed a logical course of action. The office will be engaged with a variety of international projects, primarily from the Middle East, but is well placed to service commissions in Scotland and the North of England as well.
dpa are in the process of recruiting additional Senior Designers and Designers to create a new team, which will coordinate closely with the other dpa offices.
Sentiment Cocoon wins 2016 Media Architecture Award
(Australia) - Once located in Arup's London HQ, interactive media installation wins award for Media Architecture in Participatory Architecture & Urban Interaction category.
Moritz Behrens and Konstantinos Mavromichalis, a Berlin-London-based architecture and design team, has won an international award for Media Architecture in the category Participatory Architecture & Urban Interaction for its interactive media installation. The Sentiment Cocoon is a physical architectural structure that uses a state of the art interactive lighting system to reflect the moods of people who engage with it.
The Sentiment Cocoon is a temporary interactive installation designed by architect Moritz Behrens and lighting designer Konstantinos Mavromichalis for Arup’s headquarters in London that seeks to capture and express human sentiment through the medium of light. Simple interfaces allow participants to express in the public domain how they feel by how they touch. These interactions are then transformed into pulses of light that travel throughout the cocoon.
The Media Architecture Awards are biannually given to outstanding projects at the intersection of architecture, media and interaction design. The 2016 award ceremony took place on a cruise during the Media Architecture Biennale in the vicinity of the Opera House in Sydney, AUS.
“This award appreciates our continuous strive to push the boundaries of future architecture,” said Moritz Behrens (architect). “The focus is on the exploration of architectural form through digital fabrication, with translucent materials and responsive lighting to facilitate social interactions. Ultimately, the installation turns its surroundings into a stage for social encounter through interaction and observation.’’
“The lighting design creates an enigmatic display,” said Konstantinos Mavromichalis (lighting designer). “Natural daylight, from the atrium skylights above, blend with the light emitted from the cocoon’s spine. This allows for rich interactions of varying forms of light and, through the translucency of the material, results in a striking visual display that has been informed by the feelings of the building’s occupants.”
The system architecture of the artwork allows for the tracking and displaying of several behaviours. Individual swipe cards such as the London Oyster card enable participants to express how they feel based upon three categories related to workplace wellbeing. These parameters are encoded into lighting patterns that suggest the collective mood of participants. The sentiments are encoded in different colours and movement. Colour gradients, velocity and movement are represented through patterns. Over time, the patterns become recognisable as the overriding sentiment of the day.
The suspended structure measures 20-metres high and 1.4 to 3.-metres wide. The 20-metre tubular PVC interior core is segmented by plywood disks at one-metre intervals. Each plywood disk has ten protruding spokes creating 210 intersection points that are connected with steel cable creating a rhombic pattern and a complete structural system. The Pixel RGB LED system is comprised of four 400 node, 30° outward projecting continuous LED strands anchored to the core of the cocoon.
Supplied by a 12 VDC power pack and Artnet control unit, the projected light passes through a special lenticular diffusion membrane before landing the partially translucent skin of the cocoon itself.
The cocoon was operated 24/7 for thirteen weeks in total. About 1,880 smart card interactions on six dashboards were logged in total. Participants actively engaged mainly on the way to their desks in the morning, during lunch time or in the late afternoon. Others simply enjoyed watching the colourful and dynamic visualisations. During events like Arup’s summer party, interaction peaks were noted.
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LED Engin LuxiTune linear light engine
LED Engin demonstrated its LuxiTune linear dynamic light engine - the world’s first Bluetooth low energy (BLE) mesh-controlled tuneable white solution for linear luminaires. Adding a comprehensive BLE interface enables end users to wirelessly configure, control and manage linear luminaires to produce dynamic, coherent and fully tuneable lighting schemes seamlessly. Installed in a 4 x 4 x 48 inch fixture such as a slot or pendant, the linear light engine delivers 650lm/ft out of the diffuser. At full intensity, CRI is over 90 at 3,000K and colour uniformity is three MacAdams or better over the module length.
HessAmerica Accadia
The Accadia LED inground luminaire is suitable for functional and artistic illumination of façades as well as accenting of architectural features such as parapets, columns, or statuary. The LED inground luminaire features refined architectural styling and an advanced reflector system engineered for uniform lighting from the ground up on vertical surfaces. The optics may be adjusted to one of four positions for optimal illumination of the surface. It is available in three sizes with nominal lengths of one, two or three-feet.
USAI On-Center Downlighting
A partnership with Armstrong Ceilings has resulted in On-Center Downlighting, which seamlessly integrates USAI Lighting’s new BeveLED Connect downlights with a new ceiling system for perfect alignment amongst ceiling grids, lighting and architecture. The system offers designers pre-cut factory-finished panels and suspension system components with LED downlights never before possible at the On-Center ceiling grid intersection. With 1,200+ lumens from its 3 3/8ins aperture and one-inch regress, BeveLED Connect maximises ceiling height with interchangeable beam spreads from 10-50º
Forma Lighting Motolux
Created for the display, gallery and hospitality industries, Forma’s Motolux fixtures can be adjusted without ladders or mechanical lifts. The numerous advantages include time and cost savings, safety and direct creative control. One simple handheld transmitter controls any number of fixtures and no special equipment or setup is required. Seasonal or ambient lighting effects can also be adjusted with the same handheld transmitter, as light levels and colour temperature can be individually controlled.
