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Dear
All,
I
hope you have enjoyed the summer as
much as I did. Even though it was
a pretty wet summer I had a marvelous
time in the Belgium Ardennes. Beautiful
nature, great food, nice people, just
all you can wish for.
So now I'm ready for the second half
of 2011.
Just before the summer break we launched
our new lamp design Orb*. This new
lighting fixture is the result of
the cooperation with designer Brigit
Varenkamp. The occasion to make these
lights was the assignment of the Culturalis
Theatre in the Hague to make a light
sculpture in their tower. As we couldn't
find suitable lamps for this situation,
we decided to make them ourselves.
The result is a lighting design in
three sizes and with several applications.
Brigit
and I had help from many people developing
the Orb* and we would like to thank
especially for their help and contibution:
Illum
Greijn
Form Technics
Robin
Hood Produkties
Rob
van Houdt
Solid
Lighting
and
many more
take
care
Ben
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| Orb*
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The Orb* comes in several different
applications:
wall
ceiling
pendant
dimmable
non dimmable
interior
exterior
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| Tower
of the Culturalis Theatre in The Hague |
Orb*s
in the tower of the Culturalis Theater
in the Hague.
Together with Birgit Varenkamp we
designed the façade for the
Culturalis
Theatre in The Hague. We provided
the façade with beautiful printed
curtain panels. On the glass windows
we fixed a red dotted translucent
window sticker pattern.
The mission
of the Culturalis Theatre is increasing
the cultural participation of the
citizens of The Hague. Besides stimulating
and showing new talents, the theatre
aims for a new audience, especially
the multicultural people in the colourful
urban quarter “Schilderswijk”.
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| Salad
blister MISO for ZiggZagg |
MISO
Inspired
on the Japanese miso bowl we designed
a salad blister for our Belgium friends
from ZiggZagg.
With
special thanks to Remco Boersma for
his 3d render work.
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Chopsticks
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Grained
tip
My
favourite chopsticks have grained tips.
This ensures a better grip on slippery
food. It inspired me to create these
“all grained” bubbly chopsticks
as a gift for my Japanese contacts.
Playful yet functional these chopsticks
ensure a good grip on your food and
fit comfortably in your hand. The chopsticks
are made by ZiggZagg
using rapid manufacturing.
(click
on image for animation)
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Not
all Orb*s are dust |
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word "Orb" is derived from
the Latin orbis wich means circle, a
round object, especially a disk or a
sphere.
Orb's
are the little light spots in photographs
usually caused by flash reflection of
dust, pollen or rain droplets.
But the Orb has also been broadly interpreted
as a highly variable range of paranormal
phenomenon without verifiable causation
— including invisible spirits,
auras, angels, ghosts, energy fields,
psycho-energetic artifacts and energy
balls.
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Small
Medium Large
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The
Orb* comes in three sizes:
S:
22W, ø 44 cm, h 11 cm
M:
40W. ø 56 cm, h 11,5 cm
L:
60W, ø 69 cm, h 12,5 cm
and
two colours:
white
and orange (other colours on demand)
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| Culturalis
Theatre The Hague |
Earlier
Brigit varenkamp and I designed the
façade and curtain panels for
the Culturalis Theatre. The light
sculpture in the tower was the finishing
touch of a very interesting project.
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| IdFrm |
New
LED fixture
We
are working on a new lamp design for
IdFrm.
IdFrm.
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| XALA
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For
the new Belgium company XALA
we are working on designs especially
for the garden.
Xala
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Leaflet
You
can download a leaflet of the Orb*
here>
For
sales and information:
ILLUM
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