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Diode lamp shows dark­ness and daylight

This is a con­cept for a diode light unit which I sent in for a com­pe­ti­tion held by The Illu­mi­nat­ing Engi­neer­ing Soci­ety of Ice­land and Orku­veita Reyk­javíkur (The Munic­i­pal Energy Grid). The final results of the jury are in and this con­cept got an hon­orary men­tion as being both tech­ni­cally and aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing. Although I didn’t win the main price I just wanted to show you the piece.

I will soon present few other things related to this basic idea. And also a kind of a sis­ter piece which I am design­ing too. The pic­tures here are made in Illus­tra­tor and Photoshop.

This is a con­cept for a diode light unit which I sent in for a com­pe­ti­tion held by The Illu­mi­nat­ing Engi­neer­ing Soci­ety of Ice­land and Orku­veita Reyk­javíkur (The Munic­i­pal Energy Grid). The final results of the jury are in and this con­cept got an hon­orary men­tion as being both tech­ni­cally and aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing. Although I didn’t win the main price I just wanted to show you the piece.

I will soon present few other things related to this basic idea. And also a kind of a sis­ter piece which I am design­ing too. The pic­tures here are made in Illus­tra­tor and Photoshop.

The idea is an info-graphic panel show­ing the amount of day­light and dark­ness at a given lat­i­tude any­where in the world. The light beams out of drilled holes on the panes. In each hole there is a diode light which colour and lumi­nos­ity is con­trolled by the user who can select between built in pre­sets. The built in set­tings as well as cus­tom ones are con­trolled by a small con­trol board on the side of the panel or by using a remote con­trol or even with a phone.

You can choose between set­tings like show­ing only one day, where it also serves as a cal­en­dar, all the year at once, sol­stice, equinox or a clock and few other visual set­tings like run­ning fast through every day of the year. Dial in a name of a city or lat­i­tude to get the cor­rect visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of day­light at any given place.

The mate­r­ial use is brushed steel, acrylic or wood. Dimen­sion for inte­rior use is 800 x 800 mm.

Another ver­sion I have in mind is a huge panel on a good wall out­side in a city at a pub­lic square or such. In this case the panel would be like 5 x meters. This would also mean that there could be many more diodes and thus more precision.

Here you have some of the mockup pic­tures I sent in. This is set up for Reyk­javik, Ice­land at 64° north. You see at the top of the cir­cle how short the days are in Decem­ber and how long they are in the sum­mer. At the ecuador all the cir­cles are of even width.