Color Kinetics / Philips Lighting :: Explaining a new medium: RGB architectural lighting

── RGB ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Color Kinetics brought programmable RGB LED lighting into buildings, bridges, stadiums and performance spaces. Fixtures, networking and control software gave designers a new visual medium and created a corresponding need for clear product and system communication.

── ILLUSTRATION AND USER GUIDES ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

User-guide authoring, original illustrations and page design explained how lighting designers could program, configure and run RGB light shows. Product documentation connected the creative possibilities of the system with the practical work of installing and operating it.

── PHILIPS LIGHTING: PRODUCT COMMUNICATION ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

The Philips Lighting work extended across 2D illustration, 3D product rendering, specification collateral, product guides, installation instructions and user guides. The technical subject and its visual presentation stayed connected across those formats.

── SELECTED MEDIA ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

• Light System Manager

  Light System Manager user guide — software instruction and page design.

• ColorPlay3

  ColorPlay3 user guide — authoring, graphics creation and page layout.

• ColorPlay3 system illustration

  ColorPlay3 system connection illustration — 2D illustration.

• Controller illustration

  Color Kinetics lighting controller — 2D illustration.

• ColorReach Powercore

  ColorReach Powercore product guide — product communication and page design.

── RELATED LINKS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

• Color Kinetics project archive
• Philips Lighting project archive