Simplicity in its purest form comes from one movement. That one movement, that one line can be the inspiration for a whole family of products. When we first learn to draw, we are told to look where we want our hand to go and draw the connecting line, basically look forward in order to get there. When our Philips Lumec design team first started designing the Street and Area LED Luminaire or what would become the inspiration behind the collection, [...]

As part of the event Aires Libres 2011, Claude Cormier’s creation is composed of 170 000 resin pink balls that were hung in a multi textured canopy. This unusual yet innovative structure can also be appreciated at night as LED lights are projected on the pink balls. What it does is illuminate the area and thus create a truly festive ambiance in a very artistic way. [...]

Public spaces can be composed of different elements, all with different uses. We must remember that at the heart of these elements is the public itself: the citizens and tourists that compose it. The more experiences are lived and witnessed, the more the public will be a part of this area, an area that will have a life and that will be part of stories told and events lived. It will cement its longevity and can help create a heritage that can then be experienced by many generations. [...]

Design appealed to me as a nice way to rethink about our practices concerning our immediate environment. It offers the opportunity to take a stand as far as the world around us is concerned, to help improve it and to put stories into it. [...]