Lighting Design: We're not designing around light bulbs anymore!

 Let There Be LED Light

 

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”                                              

                                                                                                                      -Plato

Plato said that 2,500 years ago. In 2014 we urge you to shed your fears of innovative lighting solutions and bold light and lamp design; 2014 will be the year of the stylish LED.

hanging  LED overhead light

We are always speccing lights for clients here at Ourso Designs, and lately we have been captivated by the lights over at Lightology.

this one mimics the classic light bulb shape, the LED bulb is actually inside

 We have been encouraging clients to consider LED lights due to their energy efficiency, long lifetimes, and most importantly, their flexibility in design. You will notice that all of the lights we are showcasing in todays blog are radically different designs, and they all use LED lights. At Lightology's website, you can even order a custom LED soft strip.

in all shapes and sizes

One of the most interesting part of LED lighting is that the design is not focused centrally around the bulb.  The design itself becomes to key feature, while the lights are worked into it.

spinning to infinity

 Some of these lights can be pricy, however. This next one is on sale at $111,995!
 

a costly mobius strip

a space odyssey oddity

These are just some of the awesome designs from Lightology's website.  If you haven't made the jump to LED lighting yet, think about it. The technology is so flexible that you can find a light design that will fit into any floor plan or design scheme you can dream up.

literally flexible

                              

The Future of Light

Lights have been designed around the light source itself for years. This won’t be happening in the future. You can see this fact reflected in the pictures of lamps and overhead lights above: having a large, roundish bulb attached somewhere to the light being designed is no longer necessary. Now the lights fit into the design, not the other way around; function doesn't have such a stranglehold on form these days, at least when it comes to light design.

                                              

 

hand in hand we march into the future