Team Nulty descend on Frankfurt
The lighting design team here at Nulty recently made their second visit to Light + Building. Since the last trip in 2012 our team has grown somewhat – needless to say there are lots of new faces!
Twelve of us excited lighting designers set off to Frankfurt, and thankfully twelve of us returned – our minds saturated with everything lighting and our livers equally so with alcohol. Thankfully, we had our trusty cameras on hand, so when sitting at our desks here in London, creating wonderful architectural lighting design schemes, we can remember what we thought was cool!
Without further ado, here’s a snapshot from our trip…
iGuzzini’s Light Tunnel: a suave demonstration and flawless integration of light in architecture to not only reveal form, but also create emotion – need we say more?
A curious visitor in iGuzzini’s Light Tunnel
The Light Tunnel performance
Xicato: everything was here, seriously. From the overhead installation to the tiny LED modules with integrated drivers, presence detection and daylight dimming to the hands on demos and explanations about LED technology and metrics.
Even Xicato’s feature pendant is a play on colour consistency
This: because we spent an embarrassing amount of time mesmerised by the bubbles…
A mechanical action creates the bubble film, and trapped air expands as it heats to form a chain of bubbles!
Some impressive exhibit designs – pictured here are….
XAL prepared with DJ booth in stand
“Synergy”, a light sculpture by Swiss artist Christian Herdeg
Viabizzuno flexible illuminated shelves
Brilliant clustering by DARK
Sattler’s green ring
Wise advice from Modular
And of course, the Luminale: finally something that isn’t just about LED!
“CROSSOVER”, a lighting installation by Berlin-based artist Barbara Trautmann
Light + Building 2014 was truly a remarkable experience for the team at Nulty. Amongst the chaos of over a dozen halls and multitudes of exhibitors, it showed the beginning of convergence into the LED world and a clear industry trajectory into the digital age, from app based controls to 3D printed luminaires. Quite a few of the incandescent and AR111 retrofits on display also looked promising – we can’t wait for 2016!
