One of the top themes at Light + Building 2016 is the balance between design and function. Under the proposed themes in Hall 3, each luminaire designer and manufacturer featured their products specialty and unique market positions. Digitalization of light and human centric lighting has been a popular topic in recent years.

Based on LEDinside observation at the exhibition, lighting designers also accurately showcased the effects of illumination. A good example is shown in the following photo, where an artwork is illuminated by merely four spotlights without unwanted glare and perfectly shows the contrast between the black background and the white art work.

A good example is shown in the following photo, where an artwork is illuminated by merely four spotlights without unwanted glare and perfectly shows the contrast between the black background and the white art work.

ERCO

The German luminaire manufacturer places great emphasis on digitalization of lighting. The “Light Digital” explicitly highlight the unstoppable digitalizing trend in lighting industry. ERCO’s minimized solution with the stylish design ensures flexible deployment and intuitive operation.

Outdoor solutions light Castor bollard luminaire and the Kona projector are a few of the highlights at ERCO’s booth.

Visiting ERCO’s booth is always very amusing. This year ERCO’s booth designed continued to emphasize visitor interaction. By placing hourglass-like installation labelled with different lighting professions, visitors can select their field and receive a bunch of chocolates that drops out of the installations vendor.

FLOS

As a well-known Italian lighting brand, FLOS has always enjoyed great reputation in luminaire design. FLOS also works with leading industrial designers, including renowned designer Philippe Starck, on several stunning luminaire models.

FLOS showcased the Running Magnet lineup that allows flexible installation. The light is powered simply by sticking the magnet onto the track. The Running Magnet family is extremely suitable for commercial and banquet spaces, where performances or wedding ceremonies occur on a daily basis, and each of them may require various lighting performances. The Running Magnet family provides greater user flexibility, and lighting adjustments.

Artemide 

Artemide is an Italian lighting brand that specializes in exterior design of luminaires and light-shade performance. Artmide’s products are also widely used by high-end luxury brands for illumination, including the ones that light up Mercedes Benz vehicles. 

Just like other transparent LED panels, the halo- shape luminaire, uses transparent light guide plates to create uniform light. According to the exhibitors, the design and manufacture of the luminaire is extremely difficult creating zero light spot on the luminaire. The resulting light has led many to mistake the LED luminaire for OLED panels.

Artemide also exhibits its magnet track light lineup, including magnet light strips and spotlights. This trend implies that clients’ growing demand in adjustable light shape luminaires. 

Luminaires that integrate with insulation layer along with adjustable optics for the LED light source are proposed solution for commercial and office spaces.

iGuzzini

iGuzzini showcases a LED Laser downlight for retail and residential applications. The luminaire is 75mm in diameter and comes in square and circular trims with gold chrome rings and warm dim color temperatures. Fixed, internally and externally adjustable optics direct light while managing glare.

Trilux

Trilux’s office lighting plays a leading role in its exhibition, and product displays followed the traditional classification system of different lighting application markets. Emphasis was also drawn to flexible structures and system at the booth.