Kelsey Paul, host of the Studio Chats podcast interviewed Rainlight studio’s Creative Director, Yorgo Lykouria about his career insights, views on fostering mentorship and inspiration within the studio and trusting your creative instincts.
To listen to the full conversation visit the episode website.
Rainlight’s Creative Director, Yorgo Lykouria speaks with the London Society about “Why the Post-Pandemic world needs high-level thinking”.
‘Weather Report’ is a series of conversations between Rainlight’s Creative Director, Yorgo Lykouria and a variety of industry experts, futurists and creatives. During these discussions we’ll explore the perspectives of some of the most innovative and provocative leaders and thinkers touching on issues as varied as design for climate change, the future of cities, material innovation, inclusive design and how to approach design education.
We kick off on Earth Day with Dr Andrew Dent, Executive Vice President, Research at Material ConneXion, Chief Material Scientist at SANDOW. A leading expert on sustainable materials, he plays an important part in creating a new generation of more sustainable products.
AMBITUS by Rainlight for Zumtobel Group has been awarded a 2021 Red Dot Design Award “Best of the Best” for Lighting Design.
The Red Dot Design Award, first awarded in 1955, is one of the world’s most famous product design awards, with a jury of international design experts that recognises exceptional design achievements in a number of different fields.
This luminaire’s ring shape means it has light distribution of almost 360 degrees, supplying maximum efficiency and quality of light. The design development stage involved using pliable LEDs and a highly complex tooling process, while AMBITUS’s perforated pattern is achieved using sophisticated computational formulas, with the resulting abstract design reminiscent of being beneath a starlit sky. The result is a precise, elegant product that fuses design poetry with sharp functionality.
The Good Design Awards are recognized internationally as the oldest and most prestigious prize for product design excellence. The awards have been managed by the Chicago Athenaeum since their inception and use criteria such as concept, function and utility as they assess their winners. Rainlight’s Nagare design for Japanese manufacturer, Okamura has received a Good Design Award in the furniture category again this year, the second consecutive win for the collaborators as Rainlight’s Traverse table design for Okamura won in the same category last year. Nagare which means ‘flow’ in Japanese is a range of seating and tables that brings a gentle sense of movement and a sculptural statement to wherever work might take place. The collection will be accessioned into the Museum’s Permanent Design Collection in Chicago.
To learn more visit the awards’ website here.
As a gift to the planet, on behalf of the Rainlight community, we’re engaging with the World Land Trust to purchase acres of natural habitat in order to ensure they are protected and preserved. WLT works with its network of trusted conservation partners to create wildlife reserves around the world. Every acre that is saved becomes part of a larger reserve that is protected in perpetuity by a partner organization.
On November 5th the Italian Trade Agency hosted Design Day 2020, inviting Rainlight’s Yorgo Lykouria to participate in a discussion on the theme “Innovation, Style and Sustainability in Italian Design: Synergies and Opportunities in the U.S. Market”.
The SBID (Society of British & International Interior Designers) has awarded BoxLife by Rainlight for Scavolini a 2020 Product Design Award. The SBID awards recognize and celebrate innovation and quality within international design for both project and product contributions to the industry. Boxlife was awarded in the contract furniture category.
ThinkLab, a division of Sandow that focuses on research and consulting to the contract interiors world, invited Rainlight to join a panel of industry experts discussing the “Future of Materiality: Exploring new technologies, ideas and inspiration for the design ecosystem”. Led by ThinkLab’s President, Amanda Schneider, Rainlight’s Creative Director Yorgo Lykouria joined Suzanne Tick of Suzanne Tick, Dr. Andrew Dent of Material Connexion and Primo Orpilla of Studio O+A in outlining some of the key concepts at play while innovating for the post-COVID 19 world.
The 7th Annual HiP Awards was presented by Interior Design magazine’s Cindy Allen via a digital ceremony on June 12th. Rainlight’s design of Boost ottoman for Carnegie, was a winner in the Accessories category while Allsteel’s Rise was an honoree in the Workplace:modular seating category and Arcadia’s Allsorts & Smallsorts collection was an honoree in Workplace: Benches/stools category.
Metropolis Magazine editors have chosen two of Rainlight’s designs as winners of the 2020 #Metropolislikes awards. #Metropolislikes is a bi-annual product awards showcase. Carnegie’s Boost ottoman and Allsteel’s Rise were two of the 35 products selected. This year due to the effects of COVID-19, Neocon is being hosted virtually via Neoconnect, an online digital gallery of the conference’s exhibitors, panels and content.
Rainlight Creative Director, Yorgo Lykouria, discusses microliving and BoxLife design with Anna Fixsen of Architectural Digest, Jenn Chang of Common, Elisa Orlanski Ours of Corcoran Sunshine, and Scavolini Creative Director Daniele Busca.
54% of the 7.6 billion humans on earth live in cities; by 2050, that number is expected to rise to 66% of a forecasted world population of 9.6 billion. The strain is being felt around the globe, according to the United Nation‚’s World Urbanization Prospects 2014 report.
In North America, about 82% of the total population, roughly 473.8 million people lives in urban areas. The number of single-person households is rising, although housing has not kept pace with demographic change. Many of the new units being built are shrinking, challenging municipal housing codes and zoning regulations. This problem is not going away. We need to question not only how we live but what we expect from our dwellings from a design perspective, both aesthetically and its functionality. It is time to explore alternatives, such as micro-units for single-person households and legal shared housing, which will inevitably impact how we organize and furnish our spaces.
A panel of industry experts (developers and public sector experts) from North America to London, led by Rainlight Creative Director Yorgo Lykouria, will investigate the opportunities and challenges these global trends pose to the design community.