lighting - Devious Creations

21 Apr

One Beam Of Light – The Exhibition

This week, the finalists of the One Beam Of Light competition were exhibited at London’s ICA.

Organised by Light Collective & Concord, and open to the public, just over 360 images were initially submitted to the project. This was then whittled down to a shortlist of 100 by the project’s Curation Panel. This shortlist can be seen on-line, in the printed newspaper that was available as a free hand-out at the Institute of Contemporary Art from 16 – 20 April and as a PDF for download from the website. The publication guides visitors around the exhibition as well as giving readers an insight into the people who created each image and their inspiration.

31 images made it through to the final curation. In addition to the exhibits, GNI Projects created a fantastic light sculpture as a centrepiece for the event. The opening was a great success, with many members of the lighting community coming together to see the …

04 Sep

One Beam of Light

One Beam of Light is a new collaboration project between Light Collective and Havells-Sylvania’s Concord Lighting.

The project provides an exclusive opportunity for lighting designers to create stunning and inspirational photographs that start with a single source of light. By stripping it back to such a minimal entity, entrants are encouraged to twist and manipulate a “pure” form of light into dynamic and eye-catching imagery. Once assembled, the images will be curated by a guest panel including: Keith Bradshaw of Spiers & Major, Gerd Pfarre of Lichtplanung, Matt Clark of UVA and Terence Woodgate of Studio Woodgate. The selected images will then be exhibited in London followed by an international tour, which will take in key cities across the globe and feature the artists’ work on a large scale.

”The One Beam of Light project enables entrants to strip light to its barest essential and show their skills in manipulating the medium, and revealing its inherent beauty. We will then take the best images and use them to promote lighting design …

24 Aug

#C21lightmod – Lighting Workshops

Last week, I was invited with fellow Havells-Sylvania colleagues to take part in workshop sessions for development of the 21st Century Light Space Modulator. There were two events, Light & Architecture, and Light & Dance, held in the Royal Festival Hall’s Festival Village. We joined students from RIBA, Central St Martins, Bartlet School of Architecture, Ravensbourne University and Middlesex University. This provided a wide variety of skillsets, such as Interaction Design, Architecture, Robotics and Lighting Design.

The first day would be spent introducing the team to the project, and generating ideas on how the installation could interact with its Architectural surroundings. Situated under the Hungerford Bridge on the bank on the Thames, there are various structural & physical elements that could provide a backdrop or canvas to the dynamic lighting effects produced. The team would work first-hand with the sculpture, examining all the various materials available that could build up the tessellated structures, as well as the many three-dimensional forms they could assemble. Each material had different reflective and …

10 Jul

A Bright Collection – Lighting Portfolio

A few days ago I decided it was high time I put together a brief collection of key projects & design elements I have been involved with as a Lighting Designer. Over the past 7 years I have worked on a wide range across each sector, from initial concept to detailed design & commission. Some struck a more memorable chord – more elaborate, intensive, taxing & challenging.. and ultimately rewarding.

During many of the projects’ lifespan, detailed visuals and lighting models were constructed to both illustrate and calculate the quantity and appearance of the proposed lighting scheme. Both of these are often important when presenting the design to the client, and ensuring it meets all the necessary requirements. Therefore the last few pages pull together these two important factors to complete the portfolio.

Click here to view…

01 Jul

LIA Outstanding Student of the Year 2012

After completing & passing the LIA (Lighting Industry Association) Certificate Course at the start of the year, I was recently short-listed for and received the association’s “Outstanding Student of the Year” award.

Three people were short-listed for the award, and on the morning of the LIA’s Annual Luncheon we each had to present our work to a judging panel. This consisted of members of both the LIA & the award’s sponsor Abacus Lighting. The winner and runners up were then announced at the event.

The Certificate Course is well-recognised, and provides education in lighting on a national level for people involved in the design/ specification, maintenance, and sale of lighting equipment. I am thrilled to receive the award, and thank both Abacus & the LIA, as well as my company Havells-Sylvania for putting me through the course.

A full Press Release was provided by Abacus Lighting, and featured on both A1 Lighting & Mondo Arc.

03 Jan

366 New Days…

2011 is dead. Long live 2012.

As we simultaneously (and conflictingly) attempt to finish off the remains of the Christmas feast and contemplate a new pair of running shoes to help burn off the “holiday tummy”, an new year has officially begun.

2011 was a roller-coaster of a year, both on a global and personal scale. It also held much excitement, such as my trip to Angela’s family and friends in Singapore & Malaysia, seeing impressive exhibitions such as Wim Crouwel, Takashi Murakami & Out of This World, and (finally!) becoming a Senior Lighting Designer. However, with that behind, the attention focuses on the new possibilities ahead.

I got to work with some great clients last year, on a variety of freelance projects. If I have one resolution this year, it’s to send the productivity into overdrive! Prepare for more “devious creations” in 2012; expect new work from us soon…

Hope you had a good holiday.

03 Dec

Goodbye Coursework, Hello Free Time!

For the past few weeks, my head has been buried in mathematics and layout drawings as I churned my way through the LIF certificate coursework exercise. I’ll be honest, I did underestimate to a certain extent just how long it would take. It’s a bit like the Tardis. From the outset it seems nice and straightforward, but once your inside it it seems to be a lot bigger than I thought!

The task was to produce by hand (using lighting calculations) a full lighting scheme for a building with rooms of varying height, purpose and surface reflectances, as well as finding the glare rating of one room and the daylight factor of another. The scheme then had to be drawn to scale on the plan provided, and a Part L efficiency calculation was required. (I provided this in the form of a excel spreadsheet). Finally, you had to get the design quoted, and write up the project stating any important details & assumptions you had made along the design process. Any additional data used, such as suggestions for display and accent lighting also had to be included.

So a good few late nights and study weekends later, I managed to complete the work and submit it on time this week for review & grading. However, I wont know the final mark until after Christmas, where there will be a 1-1 “interview” with the course leader to discuss the design and go through my proposals. Appendages crossed!

20 Sep

Back To School.. Lessons in Lighting & Drawing Meetups

I realised yesterday it’s been just over a month since my last entry, but that’s not for a lack of news or events. In fact, its quite the opposite. I just hadn’t been able to block out any time and record whats been going on.

Firstly, I have begun the LIF (or Lighting Industry Federation) Lighting Certificate Course. As an industry recognised qualification, it runs through everything from a basic understanding of the fundamentals of light, to a host of lighting related mathematics and calculations (which makes up for a LOT of the course). It prepares someone looking for a career in lighting, and helps strengthen the knowledge of someone already within the profession.

As one of those in the latter category, although I’ve been in lighting for several years this is the first time the opportunity has presented itself, thanks to my current company. I’m already picking up highly useful methods and bits of information I can utilise in my daily roles. I also feel like the cognitive part of my brain is shaking the dust off and being challenged again. In an odd way I kinda like it!

The short course culminates into 3 test papers, and a coursework project, with the final work handed in by December. I’ve completed the first paper, and will be working on the second this weekend. The coursework however will be the real test.

In other news, some of you may have noticed the flyers and business card designs for Love Laser Lipo have been completed. These have been both added to the Brand Identity section of our Graphic Portfolio, and published over at our Behance gallery. I’m pretty pleased with the outcome, with a nice clean, professional and unified design across the three-stage project. It took some time to find the right stock image for the flyer background, but once they decided on a winner all the pieces fell together. Client feedback has been highly positive.

Finally, I recently went to a drawing and sketching Meetup event in London, which this time took place in Camden & Primrose Hill. The informal nature of the group and good mix of people of all ages & ability set for a really welcoming atmosphere. Its the sort of thing that encourages me to go to a few more.

Having shunned the pen and paper for so long, I’m very, VERY rusty. Going to these Meetups gives me a reason to practice on a fairly regular basis, and get inspiration from others in the process. You can see the results of the first event here. I think I’m favouring pen over pencil. The sketch from Primrose Hill is definitely the better of the three.

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