Prize(s) Winners in Hanging Lights / Interactive Lighting Products
Lighting Design/Product Company Magentaworkshop
Lead Designers Ronen Bavly & Magentaworkshop
Completion Date 2014
Project Location Jerusalem, Israel
Entry DescriptionIt all started when Ronen Bavly had to install a lighting fixture over his daughter's bed. His search for new materials led him to find unusual connectors that became the heart of the project.
What started as a personal challenge became an impressive public art instalation with Magentaworkshop.
This light installation is an entire electricity-conducting space, as light fixtures can be connected at any point by passers.
The walls and ceiling of the custom space are covered with metal strips, with each strip functioning respectively as a plus or minus wire. The strips are connected by means of bridges, thus creating an entire electricity-conducting room. Connecting a light fixture between the metal strips closes a circuit and lights them up. The wires are attached by snaps, which in turn create a random interactive graphic pattern on the wall.
Materials:
White metal sheets
Snaps
Cotton
LED (V12)
Exhibited:
Fresh Paint ,Israel, 2014
DMH, Israel, 2014-2015
DMH Collection
Company DescriptionMagentaworkshop is a product design and manufacture studio based in Israel. The studio was established by Ronen Bavly in 1992.
The studio employs craftsman, product and graphic designers, all working in collaboration.
This particular synergy creates a dynamic, fast and surprising development processes.
Passion, impulse, humor, instant access to technology and material, designing without external dictates or boundaries; these are some elements composing Magenta's DNA.
The raw objects, mostly geometric, seam as if they were lightly sketched on a coffee shop serviette, come alive as products. Air and space surrounding them are taken in consideration as physical materials that challenge the conventional and accepted.
Although some of the products seem visually complex ,they are simplified as complexity is.
Magentaworkshop seeks to never lose the urge of creatig, exploring and making.
