21st century lighting design / Alyn Griffiths.
By: Griffiths, Alyn [author]
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2014Description: 245 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 27330ISBN: 1472503139 (pbk.) :; 9781472503138 (pbk.) :Other title: Twenty-first century lighting designSubject(s): Lighting, Architectural and decorative | Lighting | Product designDDC classification: 729.28 LOC classification: NK2115.5.L5 | .G75 2014
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| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 729.28 GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 099050 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Lights fascinate. From functionality to style, the design of lighting is an area of design that is in a constant state of flux, with technologies allowing designers to now create lighting that can now manipulate and play with form, establishing the discipline to hold a place very much at the forefront of interior design and architecture.
The book maps trends in lighting design over the last decade, featuring over 100 designs from domestic, commercial and architectural settings. This beautifully-designed and lavishly-illustrated volume features designs from a vast array of designers and agencies from influential figures including Ross Lovegrove, Ingo Maurer, Philippe Starck, Ron Arad and Tom Dixon to newly-emerging designers.
As well as showcasing the most innovative and aesthetically bold work in the field, Alyn Griffiths' carefully curated survey also provides a strong critical framework for understanding lighting design from the perspectives of sustainability, technology, form and structure.
With full colour imagery and insightful commentary this is the ultimate guide to the diverse world of contemporary lighting design.
Includes index.
Reviews provided by Syndetics
CHOICE Review
Design writer/editor Griffiths offers a compendium of some of the most outstanding and original lighting products and installations created since the turn of the century. With its lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed layout, this volume is more a coffee-table book than an academic text. Most of the volume focuses on mapping the trends over the last decade by featuring 100-plus designs from a variety of domestic, commercial, and architectural projects. For the most part, these are one-of-a-kind solutions to contemporary situations; however, plenty of what appear to be mass-produced fixtures are included. Little technical information and few specifications are provided in either the custom-designed or the manufactured solutions in terms of light output, lamping, and light distribution. This book likely will be attractive to all audiences but is not necessarily a work that will find its way into the classroom. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and practitioners. --Robert Paul Meden, Marymount UniversityThere are no comments on this title.