Dezeen promotion: Israeli designer and architect Ron Arad has teamed up with LG Display to create an artwork of OLED light panels for trade fair 100% Design during this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow).
Arad worked alongside design studio Zinoo Park to create the lighting installation for LG Display, a South Korean monitor and panel manufacturer.
The aim was to show how light can be used as a design element.
Arad worked alongside design studio Zinoo Park to create the lighting installation for LG Display
Arad's piece, called Envelopes, features a wall made up of squares of LG Display's OLED light panels ? a digital lighting device that creates illumination across a surface rather than from a point.
"OLED light panels provide a distinct form of light that is extremely thin, lightweight, and flexible," explained LG Display. "?This unique form factor can be easily integrated into various designs regardless of material, enabling your design to maintain its graceful thinness and curves."
Ron Arad?s installation is called Envelopes
Each OLED ? short for organic light-emitting diode ? panel is identical in shape and size, but coloured and angled differently.
"As an opportunity to experience how the new material, OLED light panels, can make aesthetic impacts on spaces, the audience could encounter with art combined with technology," said LG Display.
"Instead of projecting direct light, their artworks will lead the audience to an e...