Haute Lumiere Light Competition

Design a luminaire that evokes curiosity in a landscape of your choice and you could win a trip to the Lights in Alingsas festival in Sweden. Find more info in this year's brief:http://www.ppald.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/HAUTE-LUMIeRE-LIGHT-COMPETITION-2017-brief.pdf

The amount of hard work and dedication that these talented designers put into their work is incomparable. Encore!

A look at the designs created by the winners of the Haute Lumiere Light Competition over the past nine years: http://bit.ly/2luxzKH

Sunrise Lamp - by Idalina Silva (finalist)

The desk lamp was envisioned as being used for those late nights when a calming light would be most welcome.
Inspired by the quality of the emitted sunlight at different times of the day. The luminaire has a cool midday white light, as a downward task light, and a warmer uplight, which creates a calming ambience, resembling the early morning sunlight.
In addition to this, an internal clock and a port for charging your phone has been integrated into it.

Guru - by Jon-Peer Bouwer (finalist)

This elegant floor standing lamp is designed for the user to have as much control over light as is needed. Being a Floor standing lamp, it leaves more space on your desk.
The light source can be rotated 360 degrees on its axis on the horizontal and vertical plane.
This feature is ingeniously accomplished by connecting the moving segments without cables, but with slip rings, electric brushes and the clever use of its internal components, such as pop rivets and bolts, to conduct electricity to the light source.

Egoist - by Deirdre Holtzer (finalist)

This is a portable mirror light which breaks current conventions with its innovative design.
The designer understands the difficulty of applying make-up in poorly lit environments, and decided to do something about it.
Comprised of L-shaped aluminium frames, which support a mirror.
LED striplights have been integrated into the frames to provide an even wash of light, with the optimum intensity and colour temperature.
The luminaire can be easily transported and stored: the two frames easily split, the mirror removed, and conveniently packed into a bag.

A massive congratulations to Bianca Barnard, winner of this year's Haute Lumiere Light Competition!
The design of her luminaire, Articulight, showed great originality and lateral thinking.
The adjustability of the different segments and the individual dimming of the light sources, allow it to be adapted to the user's needs, from a calming ambient light to a highly functional task light.

Final judging this afternoon! Looking forward to see what the judges think about the designer's final prototypes.

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The workshop with the finalists proved to be very constructive and insightful. Looking forward to seeing their final designs!

Tomorrow is the workshop with the Haute Lumière finalists! We will have a creative session sharing ideas, advice and first impressions of the designs... Fun!