This holiday season, we at LIGMAN would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to you for doing business with us. Wishing you a year full of happiness and success.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Project – Dubai Festival City, UAE
LIGMAN has recently finished commissioning on a stunning scheme for the Al Futtaim Group and Dubai Festival City LLC for a public accessible roundabout area in DFC. Using our award-winning Vancouver Decorative range of columns and bollards, the lighting casts beautiful contemporary decorative patterns to the surrounding area as well as providing top spotlights on the columns for accent lighting.
One of the requirements for the Vancouver columns was to have exterior Bose DS 100SE speakers mounted on them and the Design Consultants; DPA Lighting and Nikken Sekkei Ltd. were able to have the benefit of the bespoke capability of LIGMAN and we designed special mounting supports and wiring encasement channels to facilitate this need…
Darc night and awards 2018
Following on from our sponsorship of darc room, LIGMAN are proud to have been involved in the darc night and awards event organised by arc which was held in London, Shoreditch on the 6th December. One of the fun aspects of the event is the partnering of supporting manufacturers with lighting design practices into teams tasked with designing and building themed Light Art installations and this year we were delighted to have been partnered with Michael Grubb Studios.
The 2018 theme was appropriately a Christmas tree and us and 12 other teams set work independently to come up with our designs.
Working closely with Stuart Alexander and Michael Grubb on the installation was LIGMAN’s Global Lighting Director, Martin Valentine:
“MGS came up with the concept of making a tree physically out of luminaires and lighting it from within. Working with Stuart and Mike was a wild and inspiring experience with ideas flying back and forth and the design just fell into place naturally it felt. We decided to really go for it in our support and hand finish every fixture and there were 125 of them! With a steam punk and dystopian aesthetic and strong references to the cult film Blade Runner the base fixtures arrived from the LIGMAN factory finished in the requested Bronze and Stuart an myself spent long days around a weekend applying custom paint finishes with stencils and careful weathering to each fixture. We also wanted to have them all powered; creating different patterns and textures of light, so we formed custom optics with internal filters using copper and aluminium tape and lots of other materials and tricks.”
Martin continues: “The support from both LIGMAN and MGS to the process was wonderful and we managed to get everything done in time to transport the various components to site the morning before the event and then build it….Even though I think that was about 15 hours of work in itself! I loved the collaborative feeling with all the other teams there and we all helped each other if needed. Also a special mention to Joe, our electrician from Lamps+Amps, as he had to connect this all up and make it work!”
In the end there were some stunning works on show from the teams and the darc night was again a unique enjoyable event and a great success. The winners of all the darc awards were announced, including one for MGS for their public realm lighting scheme for Black Prince Road in London.
Congratulations to all the winners, whom can be viewed here: https://darcawards.com/architectural/2018-winners/
Also a video of the event showing all the awards as they unfolded and all the 13 art installations can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLPmc6VMyvM&feature=youtu.be
See the MGS Video of the installation here: https://vimeo.com/307710926
Read the full history of the artwork and collaboration here on Michael Grubb Studio’s website: https://www.michaelgrubbstudio.com/darc-night-2018/
The whole LIGMAN UK team attended the night and the MGS-Ligman installation had many admirers. A great event all round and great to see a chat with so many designers.
Architect & BuiltTech Phuket 2018
Architect & BuiltTech is part of the Architect & Hotelex Phuket 2018 exhibition, held from the 28st November to 1st December at the Novotel Phuket Phokeethra. For Phuket and the Andaman area, November is the ideal time of the year to hold this event and exhibit and network because it is the beginning of high season for the local tourism industry.
Since Phuket was announced by the government to be the first Smart City in Thailand, there has been a significant focus in the province in promoting smart digital technology for hotels and resorts, but also wider afield in sectors including housing, logistics and public infrastructure.
LIGMAN’s many years of experience in delivering high quality technical lighting project solutions was showcased at our busy booth and grew great interest from visitors. Product families such as Steamer, Vancouver and Light Linear VT, alongside our smart lighting control systems including Bluetooth and DMX technology, were demonstrated by Thanaporn Hongkiew; Chief of LIGMAN’s Lighting Flagship Store in Bangkok and Sales Representative, Hathaitip Toomngern
