Spotlight on Australian Designers | Flynn Talbot
Latitude is a fine and intricate design that allows you to customise its use and direction for indirect, uplighting, downlighting, or spotlighting. After seeing these in person here, I had to add a few teal Latitude lights to my dream home wish list, ok, and maybe a white and black one too!
{Suspended Latitude lighting by Flynn Talbot Studio allows you to customise its use and direction}
Flynn’s previous lighting work took form as the X&Y in White/Gold, consisting of a hand-blown opal white glass with a brightly polished golden brass base. It utilises user interaction to control the colour and direction of the light, as seen in the images below, or check out the vid for a demo.
{X&Y in White/Gold utilises user interaction to control the colour and direction of the light}
{Flynn Talbot’s first solo show, entitled White/Gold at Helmrinderknecht Gallery in Berlin showcases the X&Y in White/Gold. Feb 2011}
{Portal was the winning entry to produce this haunting lighting installation at St Peter’s Church in Frankfurt during the Luminale Festival 2010}
Flynn’s first blip on the world design stage was the Horizon installation. Horizon’s first inception was as 1 of 26 light installations for the world’s first energy efficient lighting festival, Smart Light Sydney. Reminiscent of and utilising the fading colours of a twilight sky, the installation shows an ever changing light gradient that is controllable by passer-by’s through a touch pad. The exhibit was then adapted for mobile device interaction with app control, and reoccured in London, Perth and Frankfurt.
{Horizon lighting installation by Flynn Talbot at Smart Light Sydney festival 2009}
{Horizon lighting installation by Flynn Talbot in London at the Tent Digital exhibition. Run by Dezeen during the London Design Festival 2009}
{Horizon interactive lighting installation by Flynn Talbot in Perth on the Northbridge Piazza screen in the Arts precinct, 2010}
For more details and images of these projects, including those above, check out Flynn’s website. I can’t wait to see what his next project will be.
xo Romona
P.S. I realise now that almost all of my ’spotlights’ on Australian Designers have been lighting designers (pardon the pun), so I’ll make a special effort to seek out some cool local furniture designers, artists and the like for next time. Let me know if you want anyone special or if you are a designer yourself and want me to take a look at your body of work. There’s nothing I like more than trawling through pretty pretty things.
