Designer Surf

When we talk lighting design and lighting design, it appears the company Light emotion Montreal, famous for progeti design lighting such as the historical museum of Strasbourg, the museum in Washington and the National Museum of Singapore. As part of the festivities for the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, until 19 October 2008, technology and talented team of professionals that surround the founder of Lightemotion, Montrealer François Roupinian, is visible in Passagers / Passengers Exhibition.

The exhibition created by GSM Design in collaboration with Patrice Sauve, inspires and evokes the multitude of passengers during the last four centuries have passed through the city of Quebec, a Canadian immigration hub. Using multidisciplinary contribution of its employees and the availability of suppliers committed to producing lamps and brand tailor Light emotion, has set the lighting of three different rooms, The Great Hall of the Human Flow, The Hall of Arrivals and The Hall of Five Million Souls, each with his style, using fluorescent tubes that radiate from the ground and the ceiling painted luminous objects to produce an atmosphere evocative and exciting.

Reported as the youngest brand selected by the Designer’s Days 2008, SAAZS won the Prix Paris - Innovation thanks to new creations Lightpieces, admire the Furniture Show 2008 by installing Light Prose and characterized by elegant design and contemporary moved by principles of eco-compatibility.

Starting from the series “standard of lamps designed by Tomas Erel, the sophisticated and charming Flaq, Lightbird that can be used as table and Wallover that can be used as a lens in every way that suggests your creativity, enriched by a ‘Limited edition, produced by the research centre experimentation and development SAAZS Institute by Christian Biecher with Nature versus technology, Adrien Gardère with Balafon and Arik Levy Flying with Tron or DOTS. Technological innovation introduced by the lamps lies in the Planilum, the first “glass activated to conduct light, which was developed by SAAZS in collaboration with Saint-Gobain Innovations.

Having essentially glass lamps are recyclable to 90%, producing a light relaxing that eliminates the need for a lampshade, using non-toxic gas and the average life of a plate is 50,000 hours, equivalent to about 20 years of household use. The light source is homogeneous, non-glare and not overheat, with all the implications that this entails for the future of design, use and the very substance of lighting. The lamps you can buy at the new showroom opened in Paris in Rue Saint-Honore 152.

The eclectic and extravagant Karim Rashid has led his unmistakable look digipop in Eastern Europe, designing the interior design of the new restaurant-lounge bar Majik Cafe Belgrade. The result is a mix attractive and modern technology, design sinuous shapes and colors bright, amplified by a generous use of LEDs.

Inspired by the desire to transform the traditional decorative motifs of Serbian tradition in a contemporary kaleidoscope of cultures that contaminate, took care of every detail down to the smallest detail, with the collaboration of designers Serb Maja Vidakovic that has occupied the Belgrade Design Week 2008.

From the facade, covered with tiles of stainless steel Alloy Designs, swimming reported by digital prints of a naked figure whole, from the ceiling vinyl golden to counter glass decorated, all the furnishings contributes to characterize the brand of local, thanks also design elements designed by Karim Rashid same as the Butterfly Chair for Magis, the latest stools Kant for Casamania, Wavelength Bench for Nienkamper and 
 Bokka Lamp for Kundalini. 180 square meters of evocative atmosphere, immersed in the heart of a city Serbian ready to renew itself.

The design made in Italy signed Andromeda, characterizes the new installation designed by French designer Imaad Rahmouni for Klubb Rouge, the new lounge bar Beijing Olympic nights dedicated to the Chinese capital. The heart of the project is a light sculpture designed and built by Andromeda, on the border between art installation and decoration by the great visual and sensory impact.

Installing consists of 650 beads irregular red Murano glass, blown and shaped by hand free reflect on a steel plate which amplifies the effect chromatic, arranged on 4 files consist of 22 decreased each, for a total of 88, in observance of Chinese numerology considered a good omen the number 8. 2200 kg of glass and steel suspended, Led by 8000 and 250 spotlights powered by fibre optics.

A sought and suggestive which occupies 82 square meters and featuring 1400 square meters of the space located on the top floor of the new China View Complex. To complete the project 7 chandeliers shaped fluid and 6 scenic uprights which mark the transition to lounge prive.

In the context of Torin 2008 World Design Capital, the former prison complex new home until October 12 the exhibition-event Flexibility. Design in a fast-changing society. Flexibility as design approach and stimulus to experimentation, seized by emerging designers and professionals of the calibre of Bertjan Pot, Masamichi Udagawa & Sigi Moeslinger of Antenna Design, Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby, Clemens Weisshaar & Reed Kram, Ana Mir & Emili Padres of Emiliana Design Studio, Fernando Brizio, Giulio Iacchetti, Matali Crasset, Patricia Urquiola and Ross Lovegrove, which provide the physical and conceptual space, mixing objects, concepts and suggestions.

A challenging route through objects and design effective solutions in terms of adaptability and versatility, as the New York Domestic Sandbags Antenna Design, which interprets and multiplies the meaning and significance of bags of sand, transforming them from objects involved in emergency situations in catastrophic modular design flexible and eclectic.