Student Wins National Lighting Competition
Interior architecture and product design student Matthew Johnson received
first place in the student category of the 2010 Cooper Lighting SOURCE Awards National
Lighting Design Competition.
Entitled “Illuminated,” Johnson’s conceptual lighting design
was completed under the supervision of Professor Neal Hubbell. Johnson, from
Shawnee, KS, is a May 2010 graduate of K-State’s College of Architecture,
Planning and Design with a master of interior architecture and product design.
He received a crystal trophy and a $1500 cash prize at an award ceremony held
in Las Vegas, NV, on May 11.
The student category of the competition is open to majors in
design, architecture, engineering and lighting. Five awards were given in the
2010 competition. Now in its 33rd year, the annual competition
focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as
a primary element in design and requires the primary and predominant use of
Cooper Lighting products.
Cooper Lighting is to a leading provider of innovative, high
quality lighting fixtures and related products for worldwide commercial,
industrial, residential and utility markets.
Johnson’s winning entry was for the design of a temporary
exhibit that showcases several iconic modern furniture pieces. The visitor is
led through the exhibit by the use of a “lighting datum” created by continuous
recessed LED strip lights. The lighting datum is strategically used to frame
circulation and entrances into the individual showcase rooms. Backlit panels
are used throughout to illuminate the portraits and biographies of the
showcased designers as well as historic contextual photographs of the
highlighted furniture pieces. Recessed combo lights are used to dramatically
illuminate the iconic furniture pieces inside each showcase room.
Johnson has also accepted an invitation to complete a two-week
summer workshop at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine,
and has been accepted into its nine-month program which begins in
September, 2010. His long-term goal is to design and build functional,
beautiful and expressive wood furniture and furnishinigs to the highest
standard of craftsmanship.
For more information, contact:
Neal Hubbell, 785.532.5992
wornelas@k-state.edu, 785.532.1090
Here’s another story about Matt and this project, courtesy of the Shawnee Dispatch.