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Abhay Wadhwa, AWA’s Design Principal and CEO Featured in Ljuskultur Sweden

AWA Lighting Designers' Design Principal & CEO, Abhay Wadhwa, was selected to be interviewed by Swedish lighting design magazine Ljuskultur. The article 'Without Light There is No Light' features an interview between writer Anders Modig and Abhay. They discuss his perspective on everything from ..

AWA Newsflash: Exhibition Opening at UN HQ

"Triumphs and Struggles for Freedom and Equality" AWA Lighting Designers is humbled to be included in an accomplished group of architects & designers being honored as "Distinguished Members for NYCOBA l NOMA" at today's opening reception of the 'Remembering Slavery - SAY IT LOUD' Exhibition ..

Architecture Spotlight: Abhay Wadhwa

-By Ben Hinson- Abhay Wadhwa, aka “The Poet of Light” is a very interesting personality in the world of architecture and design. His formative years in the 70s and 80s were spent in India, and if you had told him then that today he would be heading up his own successful architectural lighting f..

Brain-Shaped Light Installation Feeds on Your Thoughts

Mind and matter meld in Australian artist Laura Jade's new EEG-controlled installation, Brain Light Project, a boulder-sized light sculpture designed to create a biofeedback loop of light, sound, and thought. In a process developed by Jade, neuroscientist Peter Simpson-Young, and programmer Sam Ge..

RAW turns downtown Montreal into an interactive kaleidoscope

A public art installation in Montreal, Canada, that is made from 50 pivoting prisms The 50 pivoting prisms are made of panels laminated with a dichronic film that transmits and reflects every colour in the visible spectrum, varying with the position of the light source and the observer. The prisms a..

Trends Magazine Features Interview with Abhay Wadhwa

AWA Design Principal recently sat down with Home & Design Trends Magazine to talk about lighting, and how it is not merely a form of illumination but a tool for story telling. The following is an except from the interview. CLICK HERE to download full PDF Article You were initially pursuing ar..

Hundreds of Interactive Butterflies Change Colors and Patterns by Smartphone

On the Wings of Freedom For the Amsterdam Light Festival, which goes on from now through January 2015, Italian design studio Aether & Hemera have created On the Wings of Freedom, a radiant cloud of hundreds of butterflies that hover above the ground. The dazzling installation can be found along..

Undulating “Light Bridge” Over Amsterdam’s Canals

Tjep. illuminates amsterdam’s canals with undulating light bridge This winter, from now until January 18th, 2015, the capital of the Netherlands will light up once again up for the third annual Amsterdam light festival, when the historical center becomes a dynamic showcase of light and movement. ..

Light Matters: Smart Flying Pixels Create a Floating Glow

Flyfire. Project by MIT Senseable City Lab in collaboration with ARES Lab. Image © MIT Senseable City Lab + ARES Lab Imagine luminaires that could fly and visualise new buildings or individually guide you through space. What would happen if you could even interact with these flying pixels? These c..

Beyond “Things That Flicker”: The Next Step for Media Architecture

Times Square NYC - Image © Flickr CC User MK The word ‘media’ was appropriated (and impoverished) by broadcasting and communications in the course of their pervasion during the 20th century. As a new social phenomenon, media (along with its derivatives new media, multi media, mass media) was..