Neximo
Let there be light. With Neximo.
- Client:
- Trilux
- Industry:
- Furniture & Office
- Service:
- Industrial Design, Color & Material Design, Research & Analysis
- Project Date:
- 2010
Light doesn’t just brighten things. It may be gentle or brilliant. It can improve visibility, or dazzle. Light has personality. Which is why Trilux makes more than just light. This maker of lighting fixtures aims to play a major role in shaping the future of light. With revolutionary technologies, in thrilling designs with reliable quality, it gives light character – and relies on creativity with a method.
Our Job
What our designers had to do: come up with a lamp with a unique personality that could capture the feel of today, get architects’ attention, and thus make its way into the market segment for high-end office lighting. The challenge: the lamp had to serve as both general lighting and workspace lighting, with the associated functional constraints – such as no glare.
Our Approach
As a design agency with a method, we started the project by doing extensive research on trends. A market study combined with our Design Style Observation (DSO) tool revealed the many design styles in the field, and shed light on the dark tangle of products and trends in the lighting and lighting fixtures market. On that basis we began a creative process focusing on a forward-looking vocabulary of materials and forms, and ultimately developed the style for the new Trilux Neximo.
Gleaming elements in organic-looking shapes combine high-efficiency pinpoints of light into a unique luminaire design.
The Result
A hanging luminaire with a distinctive design – and one of the highlights of Light+Building 2010. The attraction of this unusual design lies in the tension between its unadorned base structure, which fits like a flat panel into the architecture of almost any room, and its relief-like, organically-shaped light output. In designing the light sources, designaffairs found a solution that plays with shapes that have never been seen before: gleaming elements in organic-looking shapes combine high-efficiency pinpoints of light into a unique luminaire design. And the hanging luminaire works just as well as its looks promise. Twenty-two high-power LEDs throw light directly onto the work surface, without glare. The wide-area indirect lighting section (36 high-power LEDs) brightens an entire room, making Neximo an ideal combination of work-area and general lighting. And the fixture is also impressive for its efficiency, at 50,000 hours without maintenance, meeting standards by marrying low energy consumption with high light yield (about 60 lm/W). Versions with daylight-detecting controls and motion sensors save even more energy.
