Lighting in Design May/June 2017

Images courtesy: Artemide.

Artemide recognised for top quality design Renowned Italian lighting manufacturer Artemide received a host of distinctions at this year’s Red Dot Design Awards.The jury selected Ameluna and Alphabet of Light in the ‘Best of the Best’ category for top design quality and pioneering achievement. Alphabet of light: The modular lighting system designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) compris- es four elements that can be combined as desired. Two linear segments of different lengths generate a variable vocabulary of forms in combination with two segments that are curved at different angles. The individual sections can be connected easily and seamlessly by means of an electromagnetic click mechanism. Its designers Jakob Lange and Bjarke Ingels were inspired by the retro-futuristic appearance of neon tubes. They have replaced the technologically obsolete gas-filled fluorescent tubes with highly efficient LEDs. Influenced by the aesthetics of international modernity and the light art of the 1960s, Alphabet of Light is used to create customised typographies whose playful sense of precision is inherent in Artemide’s DNA.

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LiD MAY/JUNE 2017