Dedon and ECAL interpret lighting by a pure lens

The chances of lighting are explored by college students at ECAL, the college of artwork and design in Lausanne, who’re presenting a collection of nature-inspired lighting ideas as a part of a digital exhibition.

The mission is a collaboration with Dedon Design Studio’s initiative, ‘Lighting the Future’, which helps college students on the Design for Luxurious and Craftsmanship grasp’s diploma programme. It marks the primary exhibition within the ongoing Dedon by Nature programme, the place the model groups up with younger designers throughout a variety of disciplines in a bid to assist its discovery of each rising supplies and developments. College students rose to the problem, creating new items over the course of 9 months, beneath the supervision of Nicolas Le Moigne, who heads the grasp’s programme, and designer Sabine Marcelis. 

Dedon and ECAL sculptural lighting designs

For Gala Espel (France), Yuoning Chien (Taiwan) and Alexis Perron-Corriveau (Canada), swish actions impressed the design of their sequence of woven outside lamps, ‘Falling Leaves’. Encompassing a sculptural silhouette, the items juxtapose elongated edges in opposition to cylindrical shapes, the just about diaphanous materials casting a tender spiderweb of sunshine.

Spherical varieties additionally encourage Briac Laforge (France), Milagros Rodriguez (Peru) and Caterina Valletta (Italy). The summary nature of their hanging outside lamp, ‘Natura Morta’, recollects every thing from a cocoon to a furled leaf. The lamp encompasses one woven layer snugly fitted inside one other, and the 2 layers freely rotate because of a joint inside that acts as a central axis.

A woven type can be evocative for Jiyeong Kim (South Korea) and Seungmok Lee (South Korea), who forged their floor-standing lamp ‘Glowing Nature’ on a woven base, whereas Kévin Goury (France) and Clémentine Le Guerec (France) play with a semi-open weave in ‘Bud’. Their two outside lamps act as each reflectors and shades, with the smaller piece in a position to be indifferent and used within the house.