Ingo Mauer and Osram ally for a visionary OLED

摘要

Celebrated for his avant-garde approach to illumination, Munich-based lighting designer Ingo Mauer was tapped by Osram Opto Semiconductors to develop an actual fixture using the company's pioneering OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology. The rai- son d'etre: to realize OLED's full potential as a decorative design element and functional source of light. Typically found in small displays, such as those on cell phones, OLEDs differ from LEDs in that they are not a series of light points, but a uniform light-generating surface. Mauer, a proponent of the exposed technique in his designs, embraced OLEDs, which are well suited to this stylistic approach. The collaboration resulted in a limited edition table luminaire and one-of-a-kind pendant, dubbed Early Future and Flying Future, respectively, which flaunt the inherent characteristics of the individual tile-size OLED modules in dynamic configurations. Encased in sealed glass, each is rotatable within its metal framework. "In the off state, they are highly reflective," says Maurer.