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ABCs of LEDs: The Columbia Lighting LED product app has 360° rotatable product images, 360° panoramic views of application settings, product specification data, image galleries, training videos, and downloadable collateral. Find it in the iTunes store under the developer SPINE3D. Draw the Line: We have it on authority (straight from the architect’s mouth) that SketchBook Pro for iPad is an amazing vector/photo art sketchbook program. It’s better with a stylus but not bad without (either way, it’s WAY better than a napkin)! Type SketchBook Pro in iTunes to find it.
Light the Way: i3dOP is an app designed so anyone interested in lighting can quickly view the output of a light fixture in a fast, efficient, and visually realistic way. Given the coolness of graphs and charts it creates, it’s one of those rare moments we can say, “do try this at home”! Come on, be a CAD: cadTouch for iPhone R4 is touted as the most productive CAD solution on a touch device ever. Architects, engineers, designers and carpenters can draw floor plans with great precision, calculate areas and perimeters, and build complicated diagrams, then send drawings through email.
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Down to the wire! We are certifiably tech-savvy at Global Lighting, and in our own defense our secret weapon is our ability to take European light fixtures and retrofit them for the North American market. Our know-how results in the all-important UL (Underwriters Laboratories) stamp of approval on the lighting we distribute, a mark assuring it is safely certified. Our tools of the trade include the nuts and bolts (and aircraft cable) used by our savvy staff to make the switch!
Squeeze Play Though this buxom bulb may look as rigid as its solid sisters, it’s far from it, as the Bulblight has a squishy constitution. The squeezable luminary was designed by Nacho Carbonell and brought to market by Holland-based Booo Studio in Eindhoven. We salute the collaborative group of design visionaries for their determination to bring avant-garde ideas to fruition Carbonell, a Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) alumnus, is one of the designers at which Booo lobbed the challenge to come up with a funky take on the lowly incandescent bulb, the exercise resulting in a mix of products meant for mass production and more experimental pieces being released in a limited edition.
Cable Still life: Rod Ruiz
Horn of Plenty: With iRhino 3D, you can pan, zoom and rotate with a tap or drag of your finger, and see your ideas in 3-D: how’s that for a dimensional segue? The app allows you to view native Rhino 3DM files on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Find it in iTunes by typing iRhino 3D into the search bar.