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Artemide recognised for
top quality design
Renowned Italian lighting manufacturer Artemide
received a host of distinctions at this year’s Red
Dot Design Awards.The jury selected Ameluna and
Alphabet of Light in the ‘Best of the Best’ category
for top design quality and pioneering achievement.
Alphabet of light:
The modular lighting system
designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) compris-
es four elements that can be combined as desired.
Two linear segments of different lengths generate
a variable vocabulary of forms in combination with
two segments that are curved at different angles.
The individual sections can be connected easily
and seamlessly by means of an electromagnetic
click mechanism. Its designers Jakob Lange and
Bjarke Ingels were inspired by the retro-futuristic
appearance of neon tubes. They have replaced
the technologically obsolete gas-filled fluorescent
tubes with highly efficient LEDs. Influenced by the
aesthetics of international modernity and the light
art of the 1960s, Alphabet of Light is used to create
customised typographies whose playful sense of
precision is inherent in Artemide’s DNA.
Images courtesy: Artemide.
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