THE ORIGINAL, AWARD-WINNING EDGE LIGHT SYSTEM™
Chronology:
January
2003 after 2 years independant prototyping with propreitary
LED Display Lighting Techniques, Bright Co. finalise
development of a new and totally original display lighting
concept. February 2003, " Edge Light System vs
1" patents announced and applied for by Steve Kane:
"...we
have developed a unique product innovation comprising
a sandwich of composite LED light and a connection system
to allow us to modify shape and stack light-laminate
blocks...this unique product has secondary optics...it
is produced by us in a manner to allow new light designs,
like illuminated furniture, tables and shelves, in essence
the product is effectively a maintenance-free blade
of indestructable lighting"
March
2003: Edge Light System competition & new prototype
design.
April 2003: The Italian design competion..
The competition was sponsored and judged by ADi- Association
of Italian Design, OSRAM Lighting and Material X. The
Jury Panel included Carlo Forcolini, president of the
ADI {Association of Industrial Design} and industry
professionals from leading Italian Lighting and design-house
manufacturing organisations { Kartell, Artemide and
Guzzini}
The Italian design competition named "New Material
for Italian Design" was born with a main purpose
from OSRAM Lighting and Material X. The purpose of the
competition was to promote innovative new Light Design
products for Italian Lighting & Furniture. Competitors
where required to demonstrate an innovative product
or product system that utilsed both Light Emitting Diodes
(L.E.D.s) and Plastic.
BRIGHT
CO's COMPETITION PROJECT DESCRIPTION
"An
Ultraslim LED EDGE LIGHT SYSTEM construction used to
build slimline decorate lighting applications, illuminated
furniture, indestrucable emergency guide lights and
IP68 LED light fixtures for boats, yachts and decorative,
waterproof marina lighting".
Competition
Line Up.
Steve Kane, Bright Co's Edge Light System concept inventor
employed Carlotta Rovente an Italian Art - graduate
student to provide fully illustrated sketches of 7 Industrial
Edge Light System design applications.
The
competition included 150 industrial design entrants
and 15 finalists projects to be showcased at EUROMOBIL
(The Bi-annual Italian Furniture Show in Milan). The
Compeition level was high and of the 149 Italian industrial
design teams, Bright Co's was the only English competitor
;o)
THE
FINAL JUDGEMENT RESULTS:
April 21st 2003 - The
1st place award for innovation was crowned by Bright
Co's Edge Lighting System and Steve Kane eventually
collected the 3000EURO prize award.
NeonGLOW
Edge Lighting | The new way Forward:
The
Original Edge Light System is now being further improved,
modified and billed as "NeonGLOWtm" Laminates,
now on design revision 3 a standard product will be
commercially available in fixed-width shortly. For
more information on our Edge Lighting Capabilities contact
Bright Co. today.
Related Resources available for
Bright Co. customers (on request):
1. Powerpoint Demo including Carlotta Roventas
Edge Light System Sketches.
2. In ITALIAN - Judges summary & our original prize
sheet.
3. Illuminated furniture Concept Designs. |
