Frederike Top - Poetic light

Frederike Top is a young dutch designer who won several prizes and collaborates with nice young brands such as dark, newduivendrecht, zuiver and presenttime. I got to know her throughout her Flown Up lamp, but looking at her website I had been intrigued by these two lamps. There is a sort of poetry that fascinates me. The first one, One_Two light, has 2 bulbs, with different energy needs. With this lamp it is possible to save energy, by using just the amount of light needed: softer or brighter. The second lamp, Parabolic, is a study on paraboloids, from a 3D digital shape, to a 3D real shape given by gilded chains. The result is another fascinating lamp, that, despite the inspiration, brings back to memory some sort of a classic chandelier, but with a modern taste. 

www.frederiketop.nl

Cloud by Caitlind Brown

I am so excited by this piece. Recently at Nuit Blanche Calgary, Cloud a large scale interactive installation by Caitlind Brown was presented.  Nuit Blanche is international and multi-city contemporary late night arts festival all over the world and hosts some of the most interesting interactive art works,  this year was Calgary's first year.  Cloud stuck out for me as the main highlight.  This piece is created from a rain of steel and metal pull-strings, and 5,000+ light bulbs both illuminated and burnt out.  When beneath the cloud viewer participates in the flickering aesthetic of an electric cloud by pulling at the strings to turn the lightbulbs on and off.   So great!

Check out the video! here