Lighting design

Philips Hue - outdoor - 2018

In collaboration with Steven de Blieck, Gabriel Bachmann, David Oldenburger, Gor Melkonian and Lukkien, developed interactive web-applications for the launch of Hue outdoor. See meethue.com for more information (Signify, 2018).

Philips Hue - Entertainment - 2018

In collaboration with Steven de Blieck, Chris Damkat, Ine Aerts and Lukkien, developed a number of 360 videos for the launch of Hue Sync. See meethue.com for more information (Signify, 2018).

Globus - Saarbrucken - Germany - 2016

Grocery retailer Globus Saarbrucken was looking for ways to attract more shoppers into their promotion area. This was achieved by a lighting design that combines spotlights to strengthen the product appearance with up lights in pastel colors to differentiate the area from the rest of the store.
The innovative lighting system was validated during a 7 week period by alternating homogeneous lights with spot lights and up lights. It was found that up to 15% more shoppers entered the promotion area with the spot lights and up lights, compared to the same area with homogeneous lights.
See the case study for more information. In collaboration with Gonneke Gros-Gerkema, Marleen Verhagen, Sjoerd Mentink, Sander van de Wijdeven, Gorkem Kiziltan, Bahadir Kemer, Kars-Michiel Lenssen and researchers from DFKI. (Philips Lighting and EIT Digital, 2016).

Living Elements @ GLOW NEXT 2015

Dynamic shop window @ Eral 55, Milano, Italy

Designed the lighting system for the shop windows of Eral 55, the high-end men's fashion store located in the Corso Como, one of Milan's most popular shopping districts. The shop windows were enhanced with subtle but powerful dynamic lighting effects, which created an immersive experience for the shoppers.
The lighting system was validated during a five week period by comparing periods with static lighting and dynamic lighting, and significant effects were observed. In particular during afternoon and during weekdays, where 11% more shoppers gazed at the shop windows and up to 18% more people entered the store with the dynamic lights. See the case study for more information. In collaboration with Willem van Hoof, Elena Ferrari and researchers from Politecnico di Milano (Philips Lighting and EIT Digital, 2015. Photo and video by Alessandro Beltrame).

Luminous Couture

In collaboration with Rogier van der Heide and Koen van Os created the luminous cullars for the team of Prinses Marilene, who was hosting this special event at the Rijksmuseum (Philips Lighting, February 2014, photo credits Frank van Beek).

Fairy godmother's dress for Disney's Cinderella

Developed the lighting system for this dress for Disney's Cinderella movie, for Helena Bonham Carter playing the role of Fairy Godmother, see also the video link. The dress includes over 400 connected lights integrated in the fabric, and the color and intensity of each light is wirelessly controllable. This made it possible to create the sparkling lighting effects each time Fairy Godmother used her magic wand.
In collaboration with Rogier van der Heide, Floris Provoost, Koen van Os, Ramon Clout and Joost Westra. (Philips Lighting, London, September 2013)

Living Elements

In collaboration with Ramon Clout and Dragan Sekulvoski, designed the lighting installation "Living Elements" for the 100 years Philips Reseach exhibit at the Boerhaave museum in Leiden (Netherlands). The interactive Luminous Textile Panels give the visitors an immersive experience around the four classical elements earth, air, fire and water. The visualizations are being made in an extraordinary way: Recordings of natural dynamic patterns have been analyzed using mathematical models, thereby extracting the simplest essential features of the patterns. These models are then used to generate new visualizations of these elements, which have never been seen before and will never repeat themselves (Philips Lighting, museum Boerhaave, December 2013-January 2015).

Liquid Steel @ GLOW NEXT 2013

For GLOW NEXT, the yearly light festival at the Strijp area in Eindhoven, we developed the interactive outdoor lighting installation Liquid Steel. By combing a 50 meter long line of LED lights with 13 motion sensors, a "liquid" wave of light follows the motion of the visitors. In total, 42 Philips Color Kinects Color Grazes were used to build the installation. Developed together with Gianluca Monaci and Bram Knaapen. Software development by Ger Kersten. Motion detection by Bosch (Philips Lighting, November 2013).

KALOS V

Designed the interactive kaleidoscope KALOS V for the Philips museum. The museum is located in the factory where Philips started producing their first carbon-filament lamps in 1891. This gave the inspiration to position the lamps in a pentagon geometry, similar to the way carbon atoms can be organized in nature. Identical to KALOS, this kaleidoscope is equipped with Philips hue bulbs, allowing visitors to control the lights using their own smartphone. Picture below is from the opening of the museum where Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Philips CEO Frans van Houten have just inserted the centre bulb, thereby symbolically bringing the light into the museum. Project done in collaboration with Bram Knaapen and Mark Spanbroek (Philips Lighting, April 2013, photo credits: Frank van Beek).

Former Queen Betrix with Frans van Houten, illuminating the Philips museum

Kalos - interactive lighting sculpture - Philips museum

Philips Kalos

Meet KALOS, one of the largest interactive kaleidoscopes ever made. KALOS is designed for Philips and for GLOW 2012, the yearly lighting festival in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in collaboration with Bram Knaapen, Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, and Jon Mason (Photo credits: Nando Harmsen, Frank van Beek and Marius Trouwborst).

GLOW - Largest Interactive kaleidoscope with Philips Hue LED bulbs

KALOS is equipped with 36 hue bulbs, allowing visitors to control the lights using their own smartphone. Furthermore, an interesting effect we found is the "flames" around the sphere, especially visible in the upper picture. The flames appear due to reflections in the glass window which was placed between the visitor and the kaleidoscope.
Software development by Mark Spanbroek and Kero van Gelder. A second version of the kaleidoscope has been showcased at the Google I/O event in San Francisco in June 2014 (Philips Lighting).

Groninger studenten cabaret festival #20

Groninger Studenten Cabaret Festival #20. Stage design by Peter Musschenga. - Stadsschouwburg Groningen (2006).

VIP diner of the University of Groningen

Lighting design for a VIP diner in the beautiful aula of the Academiegebouw (2005).

390th anniversary of the University of Groningen

Outdoor and indoor lighting design for the academiegebouw celebrating the 390th anniversary of the University of Groningen. In collaboration with Frans van Rijn and the Universiteitstheater Groningen (2004).

Groninger studenten cabaret festival #16.

Groninger studenten cabaret festival #16. This event was one of the first times ever that an automatid rigging system was used to create dynamic and kinetic sculptures. The battens and lines were used in the pure form using the high optical contrast from the different types of steel, an effect that was enhanced by the various lighting sources that were used. Stage design by Peter Musschenga - Stadsschouwburg Groningen (2002).