Ice Angel
It’s never too early in the season to make a snow angel, at least for visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Ice Angel, an interactive exhibit by London-based Cinimod Studio, gives visitors their own wings – rendered in blinking LED lights. Cinimod says they used a 3D camera to create a display...
Not Your Ordinary Book Light
Check out this inspiring do it yourself video to create your “illuminating book”….
Light graffiti
There’s a reason why photography has been called this way. The etimology is precise: φῶς, phôs, light and γραφή, graphè, writing or drawing. In few words: painting with light. A photographer knows it well: light is the pre-condition and starting point of each of his works. It is the matter of creation, his modelling clay,...
Holographic experiences
“Future roots” is an installation created by video production & design studio Abstract Groove in collaboration with shoes firm Hogan and presented in Milan during the FW 11/12 Man Fashion Week. It consists of an holographic experience inspired by the mood of Hogan Shoes man collection and developed in collaboration with Exhibita Design Research Studio....
Immaterials light painting
Making visible the invisible: this is the objective of the designers of “Immaterials”, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen. A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting. The result is a light wall showing WiFi presence and intensity of connection....
An orchestra of light and sounds
85 giant globes of light, each capable of displaying millions of colours in thousands of different configurations. A visitor playing the role of a “guest DJ” orchestrates the immersive installation by means of his movements from a podium, like an orchestra director. Each gesture is translated in real-time into beautiful movements of light and generative...
The art of shaping facades
In the last few years more and more 3D visual mapping projects have been created by artists and designers with the aim of engaging passers-by in amazing spectacles of light projected on building facades. Here you are some beautiful examples… Samsung Ad, Amsterdam by NuFormer Cosmopolitan Hotel, Bologna by Apparati Effimeri Tophane Fountain, Instanbul By...
The rhythm of the heart
How can heart beats and light be inherently connected so that we could talk about light beats or, let’s say, “cardio-photons” ? Using cardiofrequency sensors as an input tool, both the Canadian interaction design studio Tangible Interaction and the Mexican interactive artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer created two hyper-involving installations able to control light emission according to...
Reactive floors: some examples
Interactive surfaces have a great impact on people and several projects that use floors and city pavements as the natural support of interaction have been created by artists and designers. The beauty of such projects is that they can turn an ordinary walk into a playful and unexpected situation. Want some beautiful examples? Here they...
