Insights

The Edit’s Insights section offers a wealth of inspiring ideas from Vibia’s network of creative collaborators around the world. We present interviews with leading designers and architects, who provide insight on their work, process, and unique point of view. You’ll also learn about the latest styles in interior design as well as innovative lamp and lighting technologies.

A working day with Umut Yamac

British architect, sculptor and designer Umut Yamac explores the intersection between light, movement and space. Fascinated by how certain objects, activated by their surroundings, transcend their everyday purpose and enable a deeper emotional connection, …

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Making of Algorithm

When a designer launches a finished product there is always a sense of expectation, how will the public react to his or her creation? In the case of Algorithm the designer Toan Nguyen ...

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The Making of Curtain: Streaming Light

Arik Levy explores unchartered territory with CURTAIN, a new lighting typology that combines direct light from a LED source with a vertical diffusion. Levy describes the suspended fitting as an installation rather than merely ...

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PIN: Bedroom Lighting

Lighting in the bedroom is a question of choosing the right types of fitting that respond to the different functions and practicalities of a room that we spend so much of our day. Whether ...

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Making of Pin

  When designer Ichiro Iwasaki was commissioned by Vibia to create Pin he was conscious of the vertiginous pace of technological change that characterises modern life, the Pin collection seeks continuity with familiar lighting ...

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Deconstructing: The North light fixture

By taking something apart we get to understand more fully what makes it work, its wholeness and intricacies. Deconstruction is exploration. Manufactured by Vibia North represents the exploration by designer Arik Levy into what ...

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PIN Wall Art: endless creativity

  The wall as blank canvas is a challenge and an opportunity for interior designers and architects. Lighting can provide a medium for artistic expression combined with practical problem solving, the PIN wall light ...

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PIN : Essence & Comfort

  Delicacy and subtlety can be discerned from an attitude towards design, in the elegance of a gesture or the nuance of a lighting effect. The Japanese designer Ichiro Iwasaki explores concepts related to ...

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North : Aurora Borealis

  We free ourselves from lineal thinking and break down the design process to come up with new realities. The changing seasons when the sun generates different reflections at varying angles and intensities inspired ...