How To Design a Light

How To Design

by Design Museum, Elizabeth Wilhide

How to Design a Light tells you everything you need to know and looks at the principles and processes of designing a light.

In a working case study Arnold Chan, one of the world's best-known lighting designers, traces the design and development of one of his installation at the London restaurant Hakkasan, and reveals exactly what is involved in creating a successful design.

Genres: Design

112 pages, Hardcover

First published November 5, 2010

About the author

Design Museum is a museum founded in 1989, located by the River Thames near Tower Bridge in central London, England. The museum covers product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. In 2007 the museum was listed by The Times newspaper as number two in their top five museums of the year.

Deyan Sudjic is the current Director of the museum. He succeeded Alice Rawsthorn in 2006. Unlike most large London museums, the entrance is not free, as it is not subsidised by the UK Arts Council. For this reason it operates as a registered charity, and all funds generated by ticket sales aid the museum in putting new exhibitions together. The museum attracts 200,000 visitors annually.


Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Pardis Ahmadi · Rating 2 out of 5]

This small book has two different parts, first part talks VERY briefly about how to analyze a room and its function to design a best way to light it up. For me, with master degree in architecture and 4 years experience of interior designing, it didn’t have something new, But maybe it does for someone less involved in architecture. The second part was interesting for me and it was actually way better described. It was about product designing. How to design an astonishing light source.

[Lorenzo Diaz campos · Rating 3 out of 5]

De entrada un título así sonaría muy ambicioso, el tema no requiere de un libro sino de una enciclopedia completa; Pero es precisamente ese el punto que quiere probar este interesante libro. Desarrollado como parte de una serie originalmente publicadas por el Design Museum de Londres y editado en español por Gustavo Gili este volumen pone en consideración los aspectos mínimos que habría que entender para poder proceder a diseñar una lámpara, y no son pocos.
El libro en su primera parte toca los principios básicos tales como función, difusión, dirección, descripción espacial, emoción, color,. En una segunda parte pone al lector al tanto de los antecedentes con un pequeño acercamiento histórico cerrando finalmente con un “Estudio de caso” que en este caso atiende al diseñador Arnold Chan a través de una muy dinámica entrevista y la presentación a detalle de algunos de sus proyectos.
La respuesta a ¿podré diseñar una lámpara si leo este libro? Es obvia: No. Pero sin duda me daré cuenta de la complejidad y de las implicaciones de hacerlo.

[Blanca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Illustrative.

Pun intended.

[Ana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Básicamente este libro te dice: "Si quieres aprender a diseñar una lámpara, síguelo deseando porque es un tema super complejo que no se pueda aprender en un libro pero tampoco te voy a decir si hay otra manera en que sí lo puedas aprender. Bye :)"

Este libro no te dice cómo diseñar una lámpara. Más bien te habla de algunos conceptos que se utilizan en iluminación, te muestra durante todo el libro un muestrario de lámparas diseñadas por diseñadores para impresionar a otros diseñadores, y te muestra una entrevista con un diseñador de iluminación y fotos de los espacios que ha diseñado.

Esta padre si sabes que de ese contenido se trata, pero me decepcionó que tuviera ese título y que el contenido no tuviera que ver tanto con eso.

[Ands Monris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Si vas iniciando y realmente no tienes ni idea de cómo hacer una lámpara, este libro puede servir como una pequeña introducción y guía para lo que es un tema bastante amplio y complejo.

[N · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think the title is very pretentious. "How to design" anything is not something to teach on a book. You can show and give information how to construct, but to design you have to learn about much more than just construct, draw and select material. That "much more" don't come in a book.

Nevertheless I read the book without complain about it. And I found it quit interesting. Indeed the content and vision of Design for the autor and some of "artists" come in opposite direction from mine. I say "artists" because on my opinion some of the called designers on the book don't make design, they express themselves in a way to provoque, to enchant or something else than provide solutions for people and their needs. I know that I don't own the definition of Design, but I can see clearly what is not.

Anyway, the book have a good information in the field. Good images and inspiration, some stories very interesting, but not a book to be reference in lightning.