Here at the Light Review we just love shouting (writing!) about great design, so when we heard that the prestigious Design Guild Mark was going to include a category for Lighting for the first time, we just had to have a find out a little more. For those of you who have not come across …
Design Guild Mark for Lighting in 2020. Here’s your chance to enter! Read More »
Chris Fordham writes: Light has played an important role in art over the ages, all the way from Caravaggio; famous for his use of contrast for the sake of drama, to contemporary artists Dan Flavin and James Turrell, the later believing that “Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the …
Olafur Eliasson: ‘In real life’ at Tate Modern, London Read More »
Now here’s a challenge for you. Most people coming to this piece will be in and of the lighting industry. And that means we all carry the same bias of seeing the world through the refraction of the electric light. But there are people around to remind us of where we came from. Chris Fordham …
With increasing urbanisation and the constant assault on our senses from work emails, Skype calls, WhatsApp groups, Facebook posts, Instagram, Twitter etc, Otherworld offers a virtual reality journey that, in our increasingly crowded environment, provides a brief respite from this noise. I went along to the creators of Otherworld to find out how they were …
For all those who couldn’t make the show, The Light Review let Chris Fordham, our resident product reviewer, loose among the exhibitors to see what might take his fancy. Sitting on the site of what was at one point the world’s largest brewery, I did wonder what our Victorian forbears would have made of the …
Chris Fordham wanders the romantic streets of Clerkenwell on behalf of The Light Review. “When in this area of London, and whilst walking around the streets for Clerkenwell Design Week, I often reminisce on Clerkenwell workshops, which I first came across in 2003 whilst visiting a friends design practice (Temple Works). With oily overalls hung …
“I know you. You’re John Bullock!” Damn, I thought; the debt collectors have found me at last. But, no. It was an altogether more pleasant experience, taking coffee in the cafe of The Royal Festival Hall (everyone needs a London office, after all) with Chris Fordham – lighting designer and astute commentator on the state …
