We would like to thank everyone who joined us for an exclusive evening celebrating the winners of the 2018 LIT Design Awards and the 2019 European Product Design Awards™ at the Private Members Club, Brody Studios Budapest on Thursday 3rd of October 2019.
Hidden in a pre-war mansion, Brody Studios is a cultural collision of a modern art gallery, artist studio, and private club that perfectly captures the vibrant creative spirit of Budapest.
Attendees met ePDA™ & LIT winners, as well as jury members and press representatives during the winner’s cocktail reception. Over the course of the evening, the event recognized and rewarded the excellence of ePDA™ and LIT Designers.
Los Angeles, CA (Sept. 7th, 2019)– The LIT Design Awards was created by the Farmani Group to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and implementers.
Partnering with the 10th edition of the LEDforum in São Paulo, the LIT Design Awards presented 10 winning designers with the LIT Winner’s Certificate and two LIT Trophies. Martina Weiss represented Licht Kunst Licht, our Lighting Designer of the Year, in receiving the trophy for Bike Square, Novartis Campus in Basel. And Maria Flavia Portes received the LIT Trophy as well on behalf of FLOS, our Lighting Product Design of the Year for Michael Anastassiades’ design Arrangements.
Additional LIT Category Winners that received recognition at the LIT Awards Ceremony x LED Forum include: Mark Major accepting on behalf of Speirs + Major for the Gasholders Londonlighting design; Mariana Novaes accepting on behalf of Atiaîa Lighting Design for Letras HQ; Carlos Fortes representing his firm Estúdio Carlos Fortes for the Sauer Jewelrylighting display; Renata Fongaro on behalf of studio 220v for the LIT winning project Bar dos Arcos; Marina Makowiecky received the LIT Certificate for Allume Arquitetura de Iluminação for CASA 01; Claudia Mingrone accepting on behalf of Mingrone Iluminação for their lighting design in the Localiza Building; Ricardo Fahl with Omega Light accepting the certificate for the PEG product design; and finally, Juan Carlos Fabra received the award for his lighting design of the Hotel Hampton by Hilton located in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Los Angeles, CA (Sept. 7th, 2019)– The LIT Design Awards was created by the Farmani Group to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and implementers.
Partnering with the 10thedition of the LEDforum in São Paulo, the LIT Design Awards presented 10 winning designers with the LIT Winner’s Certificate and two LIT Trophies. Martina Weiss represented Licht Kunst Licht, our Lighting Designer of the Year, in receiving the trophy for Bike Square, Novartis Campus in Basel. And Maria Flavia Portes received the LIT Trophy as well on behalf of FLOS, our Lighting Product Design of the Year for Michael Anastassiades’ design Arrangements.
Additional LIT Category Winners that received recognition at the LIT Awards Ceremony x LED Forum include: Mark Major accepting on behalf of Speirs + Major for the Gasholders Londonlighting design; Mariana Novaes accepting on behalf of Atiaîa Lighting Design for Letras HQ; Carlos Fortes representing his firm Estúdio Carlos Fortes for the Sauer Jewelrylighting display; Renata Fongaro on behalf of studio 220v for the LIT winning project Bar dos Arcos; Marina Makowiecky received the LIT Certificate for Allume Arquitetura de Iluminação for CASA 01; Claudia Mingrone accepting on behalf of Mingrone Iluminação for their lighting design in the Localiza Building; Ricardo Fahl with Omega Light accepting the certificate for the PEG product design; and finally, Juan Carlos Fabra received the award for his lighting design of the Hotel Hampton by Hilton located in Montevideo, Uruguay.
These projects represent a select number of LIT 2018 Winners who were able to attend the LEDforum. We would like to invite all 2018 Winning designers to attend our next event in Budapest at the Brody Studios on Oct. 3rd, where we will also present LIT Certificates. Please RSVP to attend the event here.
OPEN CALL FOR 2019 SUBMISSIONS: enter your lighting designs by the Final Deadline of October 31stto compete to achieve the 2019 LIT Lighting Designer of the Year & 2019 LIT Lighting Product Design of the Year. Please also nominate your lighting heroes for the LIT Lifetime Achievement Award through the website here www.litawards.com/lifetime-achievement-award/.
About the Farmani Group: Farmani Group assembled The LIT Design Awards to bring attention to achievements in lighting product design and to promote the winning designers and implementers to the prominent audience worldwide. Farmani Group, established in 1985, is the organizer of International Design Awards (IDA), Prix de la Photographie in Paris, London International Creative Awards, and The Lucie Awards for Photography, which has emerged as one of the world’s most prestigious annual photography awards. www.litawards.com
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Los Angeles, CA (April 13th, 2018) – In January, 2018, the winners of the 1st annual LIT Design Awards were announced, celebrating international lighting product design and lighting implementation. The exhibition will be held from May 13th to May 16th at the ICA Gallery Space in Tokyo, the address is ICA3 Bldg E 2F. 3 Chome-4-6 Higashinihonbashi, Chūō, Tokyo. 103-0004 Japan.
Founded by the Farmani Group, both LIT and TIFA are global awards competitions that bring recognition to established lighting designers and photographers, respectively.
In January, 2017, the 1st annual LIT Winners were announced and celebrated; these include Waterlicht by Studio Roosegaarde, Flyte by Simon Morris, Monstera Deliciosa by Massimiliano Moro, and Henyx by Anna Tomschik.
The jurors participating in this article are 6 of our 14 LIT Jurors, including Reiko Chikada, Sara Schonour, Ellen Kathrine Hansen, Natalia Bystriantseva, Jurgen Chemelli, and Adele Locke. Please review and share their amazing feedback on our winning designers and their innovative projects.
“The winning LIT projects are fascinating in their conception, design, innovation and use of technology to create better spaces for our living. They communicate to people’s feelings without words, but with lights, shadows and colors. They reflect the harmony and richness of the ambiances and deserve the awards received as well as the consequent motivation to go on creating the new lighting of our time.” – Isac Rosenblatt, ABILUX, LIT 2017 Juror