brooklyn NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Souda: The Bubble Chandelier is a light fixture made from 60 post-consumer PET bottles that have been collected on the New York City streets by homeless individuals and people who collect cans. The project is being done in collaboration with Sure We Can, a nonprofit organization that runs NYC’s only homeless-friendly can redemption center.
light, lighting design, plastics, Souda
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beijing CHINA & london UNITED KINGDOM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
AIDIA STUDIO (rolando RODRIGUEZ-LEAL & natalia WRZASK with he YOU): Milkywave is our installation entry for Beijing Design Week 2012. It consists of 1664 reused glazed ceramic yoghurt bottles reconstituted into a looping wave of light. The installation hangs in the stairwell of a former bicycle factory in the old district of Dashilar, Beijing.
AIDIA Studio, Beijing Design Week, he YOU, installation, lighting design, natalia WRZASK, rolando RODRIGUEZ-LEAL
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lexington KENTUCKY
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Sift Studio/adam FURE: This custom designed chandelier topped the staged at the University of Kentucky, College of Design’s 2012 Beaux-Arts Ball. An array of steel pyramids, spun with polyester fibers, dangle from an elevated steel disk. The fibers are bunched, burnt, and painted producing a thick sullied surface. Copper hoses carry electricity to a distributed web of amber LEDs, illuminating the insides of each shell.
adam FURE, architecture, chandelier, kyle MILLER, lighting design, SIFT, Sift Studio
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
carlos MONCADA: NaiVe is a synthetic ecology which emerged by the relationship between nature and technology from concept to actual product. The analysis and understanding of specific living systems behavior and morphology through simulations,variables and new data bases interpretation, allowed the creation of new environments with similar geometrical processes and configurations.
NaiVe is an installation focused on experimentation, digital fabrication, physical computing and interaction in order to produce new forms, boundaries, textures and colors as language of coexistence inside space.
carlos MONCADA, digital fabrication, lighting design, physical computing
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
farnoosh RAFAIE: Color Code provides the opportunity for the individual to generate trigger and sequential memory through the cyclical display of the woven light fixture. As a color is chosen through the control panel, the activated pump runs the initial dye through the transparent tubing. When a sequence is made complete, the secondary color follows, prompting the primary dye to return back to the sourced supply.
cal poly, farnoosh RAFAIE, karen LANGE, light, lighting design, studio400
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
harlen MILLER, francesco VALENTE-GORJUP, & jordon GEARHART: Succulent plants, also known as succulents or fat plants, are water-retaining plants adapted to arid climate or soil conditions. Succulent plants store water in their leaves, stems and/or roots. The storage of water often gives succulent plants a more swollen or fleshy appearance than other plants, also known as succulence. In addition to succulence, succulent plants variously have other water-saving features. The Succulant Hyspid creates an unexpected relationship between the observer and the lighting.
francesco VALENTE-GORJUP, gordon GEARHART, harlen MILLER, light, lighting design
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new york NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
cmmnwlth (zoe COOMBES & david BOIRA): The Seltanica is a production light we originally developed for Wright Auction and Volume Gallery of Chicago. It appeared in their fall contemporary exhibit, ‘Truth in Form, Reason For Being’. It is a suspension lamp, cast in white Gypsum. Modeled via software generally used for the replication of animal skins and other such intricate surfaces, the piece is ultimately cast into a material that has over 5,000 years of use- White Gypsum. This attempt to relate the contemporary to the historical is common to most of our work.
cmmnwlth, commonwealth, david BOIRA, fabrication, light, lighting design, zoe COOMBES
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sydney AUSTRALIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
tony OWEN: Tony Owen Partners have just completed the transformation of the Darling Island public areas. Darling Island Apartments, originally completed in 2004, is one of the most prestigious developments in Sydney in recent years. Located on a virtual island at the western side of Darling Harbour, it has spectacular Sydney city views and absolute water frontage. The large apartments are luxuriously and environmentally designed.
new york NEW YORK
Daniel Libeskind’s eL Masterpiece is roughly nine feet tall and two-and-a-half feet wide. It weighs 350 pounds. A luminous, sharp-edged, cascading shape, the chandelier has a highly-polished stainless steel exterior and a stainless-and-23-carat-gold-plated-leaf interior. Created in collaboration with Austrian lighting company Zumtobel, the limited-edition eL Masterpiece chandelier is distinguished by both its striking design and the sophisticated technology that underlies it.
daniel libeskind, lighting design
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
gary MARTINEZ & ryan RUSSELL: The intention of this design process was to explore the development of a light-emitting piece that is not merely an object, but an architectural surface that is dynamic and offers depth. The project seeks to develop and enhance the atmosphere it begins to encompass, shedding light in multi-level patterns upon surfaces while offering a spatial glow throughout the space in which it is held.
