On March 13th, Philips Lumec’s CLU Foundation launched the 2013 edition of its annual contest.
This year’s theme is SOCIALIGHT – The 2013 edition of the CLU Foundation’s competition invites participants to consider the role of lighting in the urban areas of tomorrow. Think of the future. Imagine urban neighborhoods where there are, for example, no cars, that the territory belongs to the people and that we put value in community, natural, recreational and social environments.[...]

Extreme climate challenges near the polar circle, both attracted and inspired the CLU Foundation’s 3rd prize winner from Hungary to develop the concept for his project Spheres. [...]

Congratulations on winning the second prize. Tell me about yourself, your career and your education.
First of all I would like to say thanks to the CLU Foundation for awarding my project with the second prize, it is a great motivation to keep working as a designer and keep exploring different and new fields the way this project did. I am a 25-year-old product designer from Bogota Colombia. I studied product design for five years at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique, in France, so I lived in Nantes for three years.[...]

A month ago we announced the winners of the 2012 CLU Foundation Contest whose main purpose is to encourage young designers to develop innovative lighting concepts for exterior public spaces. In the next few weeks we will be posting interviews with the four winners.
Today we are happy to post an interview with the 1st prize laureate, Mr. Sergio Ramos from Spain who won for his project Color Cloud, emotional system for public spaces.[...]

The CLU Foundation has unveiled the four winners of its International Idea contest, held this year under the following theme: Lightitude – Lighting Urban Areas above the Polar Circle during the 2012 Facteur D event, organized by Mission Design. Mr. Sergio Ramos, Spain, has won the first prize of $2,500 for this project Color Cloud; the second prize of $1,500 was awarded to Mr. Ivan Rodriguez, France, for Oasis lumineuse; and lastly, the third prize, of $1,000 was awarded ex æquo to Mr.Balazs Szilagyi, Hungary, for Sphère and Mr. Robert Trempe, United States, for Arctic Blossom. [...]