Project Overview

BEST BEFORE, an exciting new design created by French designer and Blackbody creative director, Thierry Gaugain. This is a USB lamp, to be customized and decorated, following the Art Toy principle.

Organisation

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Project Brief

It brings you a unique design experience that lets you create your own art toy, with a useful function: to bring light to your space.

For the young to old, highly skilled to first-timers, each BestBefore is a blank canvas ready for scribbling, painting, dressing up, and designing with the help of your creativity and your talent.

BestBefore, pencils, paint, glitters, feathers…transform everyone in the perfect lamp artist, from kids to professionals. Customize your lamp, Customize your art toy, and joint BestBefore community #BestBeforeOLED

Project Innovation/Need

OLEDs, or Organic Light-Emitting Diode revolutionizes the way we experience light. It is a component based on the latest development of nanotechnology. OLEDs are bright surfaces less than two millimeters thick that revolutionize lighting. Similar to a light leaf, it is today one of the most efficient lighting sources Durable, extra flat, light, not heat inducing, these light sources in the form of slabs are reinventing home lighting and our relationship to light in general. It is cool to the touch and can be viewed directly without need for a shade. With OLEDs, we do not design simple lamps – we sculpt and manipulate pure light.

Design Challenge

Contrary to the traditional lighting system like standard light bulb, including LEDs, OLEDs offer a new way to use light. A standard light bulb uses a heated filament, while a LED is a crystal in which electrical energy is directly converted into light without heat.

The OLED lights use the principle of direct conversion of energy into light, using molecules rather than crystals. Thanks to OLEDs, light diffuses much greater illuminating surfaces and allows them to be designed and shaped. They belong to the family of semi-conductor lighting sources just like LEDs which are commonly used for outdoor lighting and automobiles.

However, OLEDs rely on organic substances such as carbon and hydrogen to emit light. Thanks to the use of these substances, OLEDs become one of the most eco-friendly lighting sources, indeed direct recycling OLEDs is possible.