AI In Lighting Product Design

The use of artificial intelligence in lighting product design is beautifully demonstrated by Kuzco Lighting’s recent collaboration with NYC based jeweller and visual artist, Hannah Jewett.

First debuted in Kuzco Lighting’s showroom at June 2023 Lightovation, the Western Hemisphere’s largest residential lighting tradeshow with over 1 million square feet of lighting, I was immediately captivated by this display in Kuzco’s showroom, shown in my image below.

Hannah Jewett, Kuzco’s collaboration partner, is well known for her liquid, amorphous shapes, worn by the likes of Billie Eilish and other celebrities.

In person, these fixtures were beautifully executed, and looked just like Hannah’s jewelry, but in lighting form.

You can see Tearscape on Kuzco’s website, here, where it is available for pre-order, along with Septum, shown below.

I was pleasantly surprised by how affordable these are, and I love how Kuzco included a QR code for an augmented reality experience, so interested buyers can scan the QR code with their mobile phones and see the fixtures in their own homes before purchasing.

So smart. Every lighting manufacturer might want to consider adding QR codes like this on their own websites and if you’re a designer friend reading this, who offers products for sale on your own site, you might want to consider adding QR codes to your own site, too.

While I was at the June 2023 Lightovation show at Dallas Market Center, I had the opportunity to talk with Ashlen Haslam, Brand Communications Lead for Kuzco Lighting, one of Canada’s fastest growing companies.

Ashlen was responsible for this project and is a respected young leader in the lighting industry for her forward thinking vision.

So what’s next in innovation re: AI and lighting?

See this article in Furniture, Lighting and Decor, announcing the premier of the world’s first metaverse lighting #TrendHouse, that my company is producing for Dallas Market Center’s January 2034 Lightovation tradeshow.

AI has been utilized to create the artwork and rugs you will see in the #TrendHouse, all of which were designed by my collaboration partner, Annilee Waterman, the rendering artist who is also designing the interior and exterior architecture of the #TrendHouse, as well as rendering, and 3D modeling the furniture and lighting within the #TrendHouse.

Annilee is collaborating with celebrity designer Shay Geyer, owner of IBB Design Fine Furnishings, who has chosen all of the highlighted lighting fixtures from those submitted by Lightovation’s exhibitors, and who has provided guidance on the finish selections and interior design, in accordance with the 2024 lighting trend report, written by global trend forecaster, Patti Carpenter.

An excerpt from the FLD article is in the image below.

https://www.furniturelightingdecor.com/dallas-market-center-premier-metaverse-lighting-trendhouse-lightovation

I am thrilled and honored to be Dallas Market Center’s partner in this exciting event activation and thank Dallas Market Center’s CEO, Cindy Morris, Senior Vice President - Exhibitor Marketing, Cole Daugherty, and Director of Programming, Allison John for their thought leadership in bringing the world’s first metaverse lighting #TrendHouse to market for all January 2024 Lightovation attendees and exhibitors to experience.

If you are an interior designer reading this as of Nov. 2023 - and you have never been to Lightovation before - and would like to attend the January 2024 Lightovation show at Dallas Market Center, apply now for 2 complimentary hotel room nights while the supply lasts - on the link below.

The show dates are Wednesday, January 10th - Sunday, January 14th, 2024 with a special Interior Designer Preview Day on Tuesday, January 9th, 2024.

This application link goes directly to Laura Van Zeyl, Vice President of Attendance for Lightovation. There is no other requirement to be approved other than being a professional interior designer or kitchen and bath designer and being a first time attendee at Lightovation.

You will be contacted directly by Laura within a day or so if your application is approved.

Click below for the application link:

Lightovation application

Innovation in product design through collaboration with designers and artists using artificial intelligence is here to stay and growing, and I applaud Kuzco Lighting for being the first in the lighting industry to implement and bring to market such an exciting innovation.

Furniture Lighting and Decor Magazine will be running several articles about this exciting event coming up in January so make sure to subscribe to their magazine [ it’s complimentary ] - if you haven’t already - by clicking here.

Fnally, I invite you to have a peek at this post I wrote, to read the backstory about my own AI product collaboration with luxury kitchen, bath and lifestyle brand, Thompson, for a sink their metalsmithing artisans are producing now out of copper, which will debut in their exhibitor space at the National Kitchen and Bath Show in February 2024 in Las Vegas.

Product design with AI [artificial intelligence ] is a growing field and I predict many more collaborations between designers and brands in the years to come.

Leslie Carothers
Principal, Savour Partnership

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Extra: If you missed Jason Phillips, VP of Design for Phillips Collection, a Dallas Market Center exhibitor, talking with Sheila Butler for ARTS, about how he is using AI for product design as well as within other areas of his company, check it out here, on You Tube.