Celebrating its fifth annual event, L A M P has announced its 2018 international lighting design winners and will present the awards on Tuesday, September 18 in Vancouver, Canada. The gala event honours the best in established, emerging and student designers from around the globe and kicks off the Offsite Programming for IDS Vancouver.
“BALANCE was a clever subject and we were very impressed by the diversity of lights,” says Ingo Maurer. “LED is certainly a big improvement in our daily technical life, but it is very important not to miss the following element of light: The essence of light. Congratulations to the winners. Keep on going and think of the light that pleases its core and our souls!”
This year’s first-place winners and runners-up in each category are:
Established
First place – Mito by Tom Fereday and Rakumba Lighting from Melbourne, Australia
Runner-up – Boom by Stickbulb/RUX Studios from New York City, USA
Emerging
First place – Highwire by Anony Studio from Toronto, ON, Canada
Runner-up – Bolla by Giulia Liverani for OliveLab from Turin, Italy
Student
First place – Driftwood by Nathan Sui from Mississauga, ON, Canada
Runner-up – Arch by Noah Howells from Boone, North Carolina, USA
The first place student winner will receive a $500 Award & Professional Internship/Mentorship with ANDLIGHT, the emerging winner will receive the $1,000 Light Resource Award, and the established winner will receive Inform Interiors $2,000 Grand Prize Award.
This year’s exhibit will feature 20 original jury-selected lighting entries from around the world, including L A M P’s 2018’s lighting winners. L A M P’s gala event will be held from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. PST at Inform Contract, 405 Railway Street, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1A7, Canada. The L A M P exhibit will also be on display from Sept. 19 to 21 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. PST.
A look at the products that made the shortlist for this year’s L A M P competition is also available here.