SBID International Design Awards
The SBID (Society of British and International Design) has launched the first stages of their 2014 International Design Awards with a call for project submissions.
Now entering its fourth year, the SBID International Design Awards recognise, reward and celebrate design excellence not only from super luxury projects but also innovative design and new talent on limited budgets.
The fifteen categories range from best Retail Design, best Hotel Design, best Contract and Residential Product and best Public Space to best Visualisation (3D renderings), best residential Interior Design Project Over £1 million and best KBB (Kitchen, Bedroom & Bathroom). The deadline for submitting entries is Monday 14 July 2014.
Each category undergoes an exclusive two-tier judging process by panels of leading industry experts for both technical content and aesthetic creativity. Additionally, the public are invited to vote online for their favourite projects once the finalists have been announced.
The 2014 Awards will be judged by a selection of international industry leaders: Kevin Mau, Senior Creative Director at The Boeing Company; Ben McOwen Wilson, Director of Content Partnerships at YouTube; Jane Preston, Facilities Manager UK, Real Estate & Workplace Services at Google; David Lewis, Managing Director of Sunseeker London; Christopher Jenner, Creative Director at Eurostar; John Mathers, CEO of the Design Council; Mathew Dalby, Design Director at yoo; Carolina Calzada, Managing Director at Global Color Research; Patrick Taylor, Managing Director of Taylist Media; Katharine Pooley, Founder & Managing Director of Katharine Pooley Ltd; Theresa Dowling, Editor and Group Editorial Director for Progressive Market Intelligence design titles (FX, Blueprint) .
Finalists will then be announced in August 2014. Sponsors and VIPS will be invited to an afternoon tea at the House of Lords on Wednesday 12 November and the winners will be announced at the SBID International Design Awards ceremony at The Dorchester hotel in London on Friday 14 November.
Entry is free of charge for SBID members, a fee applies for non-members. Previous editions’ finalists and winners are available to view on the awards website: www.internationaldesignexcellenceawards.com .
Wanted Design 2014
Based in the Terminal Stores building on 11th Avenue, New York Citty, WantedDesign returns from 16-19 May as part of NYCxDESIGN. An annual hit of design discussion and product exhibition, the show includes a rich seam of lighting pieces.
Exhibitors include David Trubridge, whose Coral light is now a design classic. purchased by many of the leading galleries and museums around the world, including the Victoria & Albert (London, UK) and the Pompidou Centre (Paris, France).
Juniper is a New York-based design and manufacturing company founded in 2011. The ethos of the company was formed around the belief that good design is essential and holds the power to change people’s lives. Juniper promotes this ideal by offering thoughtful solutions in lighting, furniture and accessories that address the way people live today, as exemplified by their lighting pieces THIN (designed by Peter Bristol) and M Lamp (designed by David Irwin.
Exhibiting under the Quench collective of designers from Queensland, Australia, Luxxbox have a frank and fresh aesthetic version of urban design, their Helm pendants are a shining example of the design team's style.
Axor have collaborated with world-renowned architects and designers including Philippe Starck, Antonio Citterio, Jean-Marie Massaud, Patricia Urquiola, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Front, and Nendo, working with them to create unique and sustainable solutions for personalized bathrooms. Their WaterDream series has formed the basis for several new collections - including decorative light shower fittings.
ILEX, the Taunton, Massachusetts, design and production company will launch of “The Portfolio”, a collaborative partnership with six preeminent and emerging American designers: Michael Graves, Laura Kirar, Chris Poehlmann, Mick Ricereto, Kevin Walz, and Michael Wolk. Each designer will present a collection reflecting a distinct aesthetic and unique perspective on architectural lighting suitable for contract and residential settings.
Standard Socket offers talented designers the tools they need to bring their ideas to fruition through the support of local manufacturing in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Dawna Holloway and Brian Beck of Eastbay Lighting, Hillary Rielly of Inform Interiors, and Urbancase’s Darin Montgomery
darc at Light+Building
The time has almost come to join the other 196,000 visitors who flock to Light + Building every two years. If you’re planning a visit, we have two recommendations for you: the first is to come by the darc stand, located on the busy foyer walkway outside hall 4.1, to pick up extra copies and share your latest projects with a member of the team.
Our second tip is to book yourself in on a tour of bora.herke.palmisano style studio’s Trend Forum. This year, the team have identified four themes - constructed space, unaffected scene, singular spot and selected site - around which they’ll be weaving a selection of on-trend pieces. If the studio’s selection for 2012 is anything to go by, decorative lighting will play a starring role.
We'll have a full review of the show in issue #07.
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Claesson Koivisto Rune
Claesson Koivisto Rune w126s is a development of the technologically advanced floor lamp with the same name. Just like its predecessor, the pendant is equipped with highly advanced LEDs that provide both direct and indirect light, individually dimmable to create the perfect lighting effect.
Skyline
Designed by Folkform, Skyline was presented by the Swedish government to Sweden’s Queen Silvia on the occasion of her 70th birthday. Inspired by the architecture of different districts of Stockholm, the collection is available in two ceiling pendant sizes, in addition to a floor and wall version.
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Copenhagen Pendant
An exercise in contrasts, the Copenhagen Pendant fuses the classic and the modern, the maritime and the industrial. Its matte-lacquered metal lampshade disperses the light in a subtle but spectacular way, resembling the classic gaslight feel of the bleak Copenhagen piers.
Mona
In her role as artistic director for Czech manufacturer Brokis, Lucie Koldova has created a new series of pendants. Available in a ceiling or floor lamp version, the Mona range comprises tinted glass shades that shroud the tubular lightsource, suspended between broad, functional, lanyard straps.
Kettle Lightwork
Like all Lightwork products, the Kettle is designed by Hüseyin Turgut and handmade in the company’s atelier in Beyoglu, Istanbul. Kettle is constructed from steel, brass copper and nickel and powder coated in a choice of RAL colours, customisable to suit client preference.
Aeon Rocket
Aeon Rocket strikes a fine balance between a simple steel/aluminium upper shade and a gauzy lower shade. Eight light bands made of recyclable polypropylene are carefully woven together into loops that allow the light to stream through unhindered. Available in 400mm and 600mm diameter versions.
Blom
Blom (a contraction of the word blomst - Norwegian for flower), is a new table lamp range. Intensity can be adjusted thanks to two petals that gently embrace the diffuser, rotating on the base to shield the glare as required: with the petals aligned the lamp emits maximum light.
Bell
The Bell series of shiny porcelain pendants is now available in new colours: mustard yellow and old rose. To celebrate porcelain as a substance and the possibilities of its shiny glazed surfaces, the colours are applied to the exterior of the shade, contrasting with the pure white porcelain on the inside.
