Lighting
Lighting design shapes how spaces, architecture and objects are perceived. Decorative and architectural lighting, portable lamps and integrated systems reveal different approaches to the use of light. New technologies, materials and manufacturing processes inform projects by designers and brands across the sector, where technical performance meets formal research through the study of light sources, structures and their effects on a space.
GOURDO: what growing a lamp from mushrooms and waste looks like
Inside Justin A. Wan’s mycelium and luffa lighting design, food waste becomes a living structural system, and biology replaces manufacturing as a maker.
Race of Lights: Davide Groppi turns childhood memory into light
The wall lamp designed by the Italian brand stems from a memory: the electric slot-car racing track. A game that becomes a functional object while retaining its original…
Carl Hansen & Søn’s Begonya and the discipline behind Danish design
Inside the Copenhagen exhibition “Balanced Principles,” a new pendant lamp by Øivind Slaatto is the latest proof of how to maintain brand legacy in contemporary design.
BAENUE: the light that follows our biological clock
How can lighting go beyond its functional role to become a tool for well-being? Through photobiological research and proprietary technology, Korean brand BAENUE explores an approach that places…
Yuya Zhou’s Genesis and the design of impermanence
A series of bioplastic lighting questions the permanence of design objects, wondering if maybe transience could be an equally interesting approach.
Light with a mind of its own, Andrea Mancuso’s LUMIAC
Andrea Mancuso’s LUMIAC reimagined the chandelier as a living, moving entity, asking what it means to design in an age of machines.
Light In matter. Architectural Variations: rewriting the language of architecture
Luce5 and HYLEtech will be hosting six architects from all over the world, and asking them to rethink what a wall can do, through a curated programme in…
Before the Light: an exhibition in celebration of prototypes
What happens to a studio’s unchosen prototypes? Mayice decided to unveil the hidden parts of their design process, putting them on show for Forma at the Ateneo de…
HYLEtech: fusing material, structure, and light in a single solution
What if lighting solutions were fully integrated into surfaces, instead of being an accessory to apply to them? Luce5’s new project opens up new horizons for professionals to…
Fragmentos de Mar: lost seashells become a lighting design collection
In the artsy neighbourhood of Roma Norte, davidpompa shows how reclaimed food waste can be incredibly beautiful in his latest work, celebrating the story of seashells in a…
Tangent Lamp: when a simple gesture becomes light
A minimal touch turns the ordinary into the extraordinary: RK Lab, the internal experimental laboratory of Relvãokellermann, imagines the act of creating light as a poetic, interactive experience…
The Norm lamp: a mental exercise in material efficiency
What if sustainable design could live together with industrial production? Moritz Walter is exploring this relationship through the use of standard components.