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
LIT Design Awards has announced the winners of its first annual International Competition for Lighting Product Design and Implementation.
Studio Roosegaarde was honored as LIT Lighting Designer of the Year for its Waterlicht project. Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde began his career as an innovator after graduating from The Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007, where he works with his team of designers and engineers toward a better future.
The LIT Lighting Product Design of the Year is FLYTE: The Levitating Light, a product designed by Simon Morris which hovers by magnetic levitation and is powered through the air. Merging the words fly, light, and the Swedish word for float, Flyte creates luminous spectacles that combine the wonders of magnetic levitation with wireless power.
LIT also announced the LIT Emerging Lighting Designer and Lighting Product Design of 2017, with cash prize scholarships to encourage each designer’s next project in lighting design. The recipient of the LIT 2017 Emerging Lighting Designer of the Year is Massimiliano Moro, whose design for Monstera Deliciosa was a site-specific project made for a large abandoned palace Palazzo di Napoli, in the hearth of Palermo. This design fills the abandoned space with life using light sculptures of autochthone plants as objects.
Anna Tomschik is the final LIT Honoree of 2017, winning the Lighting Product Design of the Year for HENYX, a lamp inspired by the sun and moon. HENYX is a luminaire with two facets balancing light and darkness. In the morning, the lamp elicits neurohormonal changes in the body that are typical when waking up, and in the evening, the moon module has a soft reflective light. With its accompanying mobile app, HENYX connects to an alarm clock for individualized settings.
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LIT Design Awards Created to Recognize Global Lighting Design
LIT Awards Partners with CLD ITMO University, RULD, and PLD Magazine to Shine Greater Recognition on Innovation and Talent in Lighting Product Design and Implementation.
Los Angeles, CA (August 1st, 2017) – The LIT Design Awards was created by the Farmani Group to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and implementers. We believe that lighting is an art and a science, and it is one of the most important elements of design.“Light in Theory” (LIT) was derived from the theory of light on an abstract level, drawing attention to the electromagnetic spectrum of waves and the lighting designers who use it to keep our homes and communities lit.
Los Angeles, CA (November 7th, 2017) – The LIT Lighting Design Awards was created by the Farmani Group to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and implementers.
We believe that lighting is an art and a science, and it is one of the most important elements of design. The winning designers and designs will be exhibited in a pop up exhibition in Tokyo in March 2018, in collaboration with the Tokyo International Foto Awards, details to be announced in the new year.
