Gala event shines a light on international designers September 18
Vancouver, Canada, 2018-09-18 –
Celebrating its fifth annual event, L A M P has announced its 2018 international lighting design winners and will present the awards on Tuesday, September 18 in Vancouver, Canada. The gala event honours the best in established, emerging and student designers from around the globe and kicks off the Offsite Programming for IDS Vancouver.
“BALANCE was a clever subject and we were very impressed by the diversity of lights,” says Ingo Maurer. “LED is certainly a big improvement in our daily technical life, but it is very important not to miss the following element of light: The essence of light. Congratulations to the winners. Keep on going and think of the light that pleases its core and our souls!”
This year’s first-place winners and runners-up in each category are:
Established
First place – Mito by Tom Fereday and Rakumba Lighting from Melbourne, Australia
Runner-up – Boom by Stickbulb/RUX Studios from New York City, USA
Emerging
First place – Highwire by Anony Studio from Toronto, ON, Canada
Runner-up – Bolla by Giulia Liverani for OliveLab from Turin, Italy
Student
First place – Driftwood by Nathan Sui from Mississauga, ON, Canada
Runner-up – Arch by Noah Howells from Boone, North Carolina, USA
The first place student winner will receive a $500 Award & Professional Internship/Mentorship with ANDLIGHT, the emerging winner will receive the $1,000 Light Resource Award, and the established winner will receive Inform Interiors $2,000 Grand Prize Award.
This year’s exhibit will feature 20 original jury-selected lighting entries from around the world, including L A M P’s 2018’s lighting winners. L A M P’s gala event will be held from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. PST at Inform Contract, 405 Railway Street, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1A7, Canada. The L A M P exhibit will also be on display from Sept. 19 to 21 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. PST.
Established in 2013, L A M P (Lighting Architecture Movement Project) is run by Vancouver founders Annika Siemsen and Nicole Fox. L A M P attracts the Pacific Northwest’s top product designers, architects, business entrepreneurs and design enthusiasts to its unique event that celebrates the best in emerging, contemporary lighting design. Now in its fifth year,
L A M P looks forward to growing into an internationally recognizable institution for creative minds to showcase their lighting designs.
Established First place – Mito by by Tom Fereday and Rakumba Lighting of Melbourne, Australia
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Established First place – Mito by by Tom Fereday and Rakumba Lighting of Melbourne, Australia
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Established first place ~ Mito by by Tom Fereday and Rakumba Lighting of Melbourne, Australia. CONCEPT: Mito is an exercise in balance and proportion, with feature reflectors carefully balanced along a fine thread-like stem – hence the name. The Mito lighting series was designed to celebrate the natural beauty and character of raw materials.
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Established First place – Mito by by Tom Fereday and Rakumba Lighting of Melbourne, Australia
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Established runner-up ~ Boom by Stickbulb by RUX Studios from New York City, USA
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Established runner-up ~ Boom by Stickbulb/RUX Studios from New York, USA. Boom is an LED fixture made from sustainably sourced or reclaimed wood and a cast-brass joint. This is a new series of LED chandeliers with explosive forms made from and inspired by destroyed buildings.
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Established runner-up ~ Boom by Stickbulb by RUX Studios from New York City, USA
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Emerging first place ~ Highwire by Anony Studio, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Emerging first place ~ Highwire by Christian Lo from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. CONCEPT: By allowing gravity to weight the center, the Highwire maintains balance by creating tension between two points. The user can add up to five luminaries to a single power drop. The light created by the fixture not only illuminates the surrounding area, but also illuminates itself further enhancing the fixtures presence.
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Emerging first place ~ Highwire by Anony Studio, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Emerging first place ~ Highwire by Anony Studio, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Emerging runner-up ~ Bolla by Giulia Liverani for OliveLab from Turin, Italy. CONCEPT: Balance isn’t something you easily get, it’s something you have to gain. The Universe itself is constantly searching for its equilibrium, balancing different elements to reach an ideal condition. Similarly, BOLLA is able to constantly equilibrate power and temperature to guarantee the desired lifetime of its LED.
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Emerging runner-up ~ Bolla by Giulia Liverani for OliveLab from Turin, Italy
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Emerging Runner-up ~ Bolla by Giulia Liverani for OliveLab from Turin, Italy.
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Student first place ~ Driftwood by Nathan Sui from Mississauga, ON, Canada. CONCEPT: Driftwood is inspired by pristine scenery within nature. It emulates a piece of wood floating on a calm lake, barely breaking the surface and floating without disturbances. The warm diffused light mimics the refraction of light within water, bouncing off the rocky shore and illuminating the floating wood. It is both literally and figuratively “balanced”, as the wooden disc is suspended in the air as if floating on water. The ambient lighting from Driftwood provides the room with a warm, comforting atmosphere.
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Student first place ~ Driftwood by Nathan Sui from Mississauga, ON, Canada
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Student first place ~ Driftwood by Nathan Sui from Mississauga, ON, Canada
