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2012 Jurors
Robert F. Gatje FAIA, Robert F. Gatje Architect
Brian Labbe, national sales manager, Bartco Lighting
K. Brett Malak AIA, president Brett Malak Lighting Design
Sang Lee, associate at Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design and grand prize winner of the first annual IESNYC Student Lighting Competition held in 2000
Keynote Speaker
The keynote address was delivered by Dietrich Neumman, the Royce Family Professor for the History of Modern Architecture and Urban Studies at Brown University. He has published a number of books on architectural illumination - "Architecture of the Night," "Luminous Buildings" and "The Structure of Light: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of modern Architecture" - and has organized major exhibitions about Kelly at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam and Yale University. His speech focused on Kelly, a pioneering architectural lighting designer who collaborated with architects including Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen, and Louis Kahn. In his opening, Neumann exclaimed that “I’ve seen the future of lighting design,” referring to all of the competition submissions that were on display.
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2012 Committee
Chair
Shaun Fillion, OSRAM Sylvania
Advisor
Randy Sabedra, RS Lighting Design
Event Planning
Tae Young Kim, Kugler Ning Lighting Design
Erin Gussert, Kugler Ning Lighting Design
Sponsorship and Prize Trip Coordination
Paul Christensen, Solis LED
Georges Moghaizel, Debbas International
Winners of the 2012 New York City Student Lighting Competition
Sejung Oh, an industrial design major at Pratt Institute was awarded the grand prize at the IESNYC 12th annual student lighting design competition held on February 29, 2012. He received a three-day, all expense paid trip to Paris, the City of Light, plus $2,000 compliments of Debbas International. Oh had the opportunity to interface with lighting engineers and designers at the firm’s new Paris showroom and exhibit space, L’Atelier, and at La Machine, their factory outside the city. The IESNYC also awarded Yoon-Lee and Hamedanchian a cash prize of $1,000 and $500 respectively.
2012 Winners Projects
First Prize
Pratt Institute
BFA Industrial Design
Dal Beat is constructed of acrylic, an LED strip, and MDF - is a drum filled with water and light that when tapped, created a refraction of light and evokes the way the moonlight is reflected on water. “The name Dal Beat is a derived from dal bit, which is Korean for moonlight, says Oh. “I changed the name of my project as an invitation to viewers to tap or beat the drum to see the movement of the light.” The jury felt Dal Beat was very beautiful and well constructed. They were impressed with the way it visualized the sound an instrument creates using light through a different medium and that it was interactive and felt alive.
Second Prize
Pratt Institute
BID Industrial Design
Jonathan Thayer, instructor
Third Prize
New York School of Interior Design
MPS Interior Design
Honorable Mention
Pratt Institute
BID Interior Design
Patrick Fenton, instructor
Honorable Mention
Pratt Institute
BID Industrial Design
Jeanne Pfordresher, instructor
Honorable Mention
Pratt Institute
BID Industrial Design
Willy Schwenzfeier, instructor
Honorable Mention
Parsons
AAS Interior Design
Randy Sabedra, instructor
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