In the first of my two part series with multi award winning German design studio Licht Kunst Licht, originally published in warmwhite, I took a look at five of their recent completed projects which provide a broad overview of the studio’s capabilities. Given my experience and friendship with LKL (I…

The desert-based light installations of Phillip K. Smith III straddle the line between architecture, nature and art. Impressive visual entities though they may be, Smith’s work is laden with reference and meaning. We take a closer look… Given the strong architectural presence within your work, perhaps it comes as little…

This is an extract of an article originally published in warmwhite When I meet Pierre Jorge (or PJ as he is colloquially known in the office) at the AAS studio on Berlin’s Potsdamer Strasse, it’s a few weeks before the studio’s 20th birthday party. By all accounts, it’s been an…

Light and well-being: lighting to accompany the circadian rhythm. An interview with Maurizio Rossi, the Director of the Master’s course in Lighting Design & LED Technology at the Milan Polytechnic As a result of intensive telephone or tablet use, many people have now realised, at an empirical level, that our…

The automotive industry has historically found itself in a constant state of liminality, perpetually playing catch up with new technologies, consumer trends and shifts in global economic and political developments. With the advent of the age of the electric car, the promise of autonomous driving and the rise of the…

While the theatrical lighting and architectural lighting worlds may abide by their own laws and design conventions, there are nevertheless a number of often overlooked similarities between the two which offer huge opportunities for cross pollination and inspiration. Within architectural or interior lighting design, we tend to talk about lighting…

With an abundance of Eastern Bloc cars in Cuba, the question begs to be asked: Why aren’t we paying our photographic respects to them? While Cuba’s thirty-year relationship with the USSR is perhaps most famously characterised by the 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis, a permanent and little publicised reminder of the…