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Trend: Ambient Moon Lights
Written By Josefine Koehn on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 3:53 PM | In Japan, USA Please Comment
Ambient lights featuring lunar motives.
Trend Description:
It’s hard to escape the magic of the moonlight. Now manufacturers – inspired by the soft illumination of the nightly sky – are designing ambient mood light installations, some just for the pleasure of it, some to make the consumers more ecological aware (please read our Trendblog posting: Power Awareness). Many are even using alternative energy sources, like the sun, to bring the power of light to areas without infrastructure (Please read our Trendblog posting: Solar Design).
Cases:
Full Moon Sideboard
The Full Moon Sideboard is a limited edition piece with a neat trick and a green twist. If you turn the lights in the room down low, the photo-realistic image of the moon’s surface will appear and produce a soft glow. Designer Sotirios Papadopoulos used a special luminous and ecological paint called ELI (eco light inside) which he created especially for this project. Supposedly the gelcoat, which makes the image of the moon glow is derived from an ecological powder. The piece is not available to the public yet, but can be seen at the dEMOsign exhibition at the SOHO gallery in Milan from April 18th to April 22nd.
Sega: Homestar Planetarium
One of the biggest trends in Japan last year has been space. While it’s basically impossible to view the stars clearly in a big city like Tokyo, products like the Homestar Planetarium from Sega bring the nightly sky right into the living, even with the occasional shooting star blasting through. The Homestar Planetarium was such a big success that there is even a PSP software available now, which let useres zoom and navigate through the galaxy, including detailed information about constellations, planets, and the rest of the universe.
Trend Impact:
Beautiful design definitely can draw the awareness of the consumer towards more ecological products. First amazed by the sheer appearance of a light fixture or a piece of furniture, people will look closer and get interested in the idea of ecological design and the smart and energy saving usage of resources and power. People have to be aware of the beauty of their surroundings to be willing to take care of them.
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