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Robert Wechsler's "Pixilated" is a programmable display, constructed by specially designed helium balloons with integrated LEDs. It was made for Vision Request, a project held by Andrea Zittel's A-Z Studio in Joshua Tree ...

Pixilated!

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"Day.One" Festival brings together artists to praise the relation between architecture and sunlight. It will be held in April 2014, in Mexico City with a range of activities on natural light. Day.One is a follow up to ...

Festival “Day. One”, Mexico City

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Nike has started a "Mi Pista" in Madrid. It is an on-demand, pop-up football field made from a laser projection. Nice idea, even if it is for advertising. Watch the rather cheesy ...

Pop-up laser football field

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After the "Lightroller" project, rAndom International creates "Temporary Graffiti". The installation that invites visitors to paint with light, on a light - sensitive surface has been exhibited all over the ...

Temporary graffiti, by rAndom International

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Architects María Langarita and Victor Navarro, Langarita explain that "The LED Action Façade is an infrastructure designed as an interactive medium, capable of promoting social responsibility, civil participation, ...

Interactive Media Facade in Madrid

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Presented at TED Amsterdam in October 2010, this is an all time favorite presentation by lighting designer Rogier van der Heide on the unappreciated qualities of darkness in lighting ...

Rogier van der Heide on the importance of Darkness

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Swedish energy company Umeå Energi has installed special lights in 30 different bus stops in Umeå, a small town just north of Stockholm, in an effort to fight winter blahs. Light therapy is a common treatment for seasonal ...

Light therapy at the bus stop

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Sam Jacob from FAT studio proposes to use the dome of St Paul's Cathedral as an interactive map of the phases of the moon, linking Heaven and Earth. "If the night was cloudy and no moon was visible then the dome could ...

Man made Moon

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A major exhibition opened recently at Vitra Museum and it will be running till mid February on a medium which has transformed our cities like no other: Light. It is the first comprehensive showcase on the topic of ...

Lightopia at Vitra Museum

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