Eindhoven – On Friday 5 April 2013 at 14:00 hours, the new Philips museum in the center of Eindhoven will be officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. The museum will then open its doors to the public on 6 April. Hans de Jong, CEO of Philips Benelux, says, “We are extremely honored that the Queen has agreed to come ...
There has been a permanent exhibition on the Deutscher Zukunftspreis at the Deutsches Museum since 2006. Since then over 1 million visitors have viewed the 10 most-recent award-winning projects and the “Hall of Fame” of the prizewinners. The newest exhibit for the prizewinning team from 2011 was unveiled at the museum in September: Organic ...
Over the past decade, Swarovski’s design and architecture commissions have served as an experimental platform for leading figures in design to conceptualize, develop and share their most radical ideas. Building on this platform, the Design Museum in London and Swarovski have challenged some of the most exciting talents in contemporary creativity ...
The US Department of Energy has completed Series 17 of testing through the DOE Solid-State Lighting CALiPER program. Report 17 analyzes the performance of a group of only six LED products labeled as AR111 lamps, a niche product. Results indicate that this product category is lagging behind other types of directional LED lamps: the products tested ...
The MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is presenting The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography. The exhibition, created in conjunction with the 9th International Symposium on Display Holography, is co-sponsored by the MIT Museum and the MIT Media Lab. More than 20 holograms created by international artists, as well as ...
As part of the Olafur Eliasson: Little Sun at Tate Modern exhibit, launched 28 July 2012, visitors will be invited to look at works of art in the dark using only the light of Eliasson’s Little Sun solar-powered lamps. The presentation at Tate Modern has been developed for the London 2012 Festival that runs across the UK until 9 September ...
International art insurance specialist AXA ART in collaboration with Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections (CRCC) at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris has developed LightControl. The LightControl device is designed to serve as early-warning system to monitor the lighting conditions under which sensitive artworks are ...
Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, has announced the winners of the 35th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The winners were recognized at LIGHTFAIR International 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Five professional awards ...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published the final evaluation report from a retrofit of track lighting used to illuminate a special photography exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. The LED lamps resulted in energy savings approaching 83 percent compared to the traditional halogen system. Simple payback was estimated ...
Manchester, UK-based dbn Lighting has supplied a custom LED lighting and control solution to the city's Whitworth Art Gallery, which will run for 3 months as part of the Cotton: Global Threads exhibition – a compelling story about the production, consumption, and global trade in cotton. The light work is designed by artist Liz Rideal and ...