The eighth KOI Awards is this Sunday, 4th October at London's glamorous art deco Troxy, organised by The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), The Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), The Fifth Estate Ltd and Clay Paky.
Light Initiative (LI) was asked to create the table centrepieces for the occasion, drawing on their talent for amazing LED designs.
"We wanted to add something special to the Knight of Illumination evening, something beautiful and subtle while celebrating the creativity of every lighting designer in the room," says LI's Bryn Williams. "These playful centrepieces can allow guests to create their own lighting states using a touch-activated interface."
Williams continues, "Key to our concept was the sense of unity at this industry event and with this in mind, at points during the evening volumetric effects will create the illusion of an ocean of light across the whole room: each is a part of the whole.
"This further innovation demonstrates the convergence of lighting and video - using video content to control the parameters of a lighting fixture - and with this we are tiptoeing intoa new paradigm for lighting control."
The centrepieces are based on Light Initiative's own Infinity Tubes, and controlled by its embedded Electron media servers.
The unique and striking pieces were created specifically for KOI, but will be available for hire soon afterwards, either as table centrepieces or hanging pendants.
FIX8Group's Richard Kenyon and Henry Crawfurd were approached to create the visuals for the KOI ceremony main screen.
"Our design concept was developed as a continuation of the previous year's thematic imagery of a 'starry night sky', a nod to both the title of the ceremony and the obvious connotations evoked by the word 'Illumination'," says Kenyon. "Our primary focus was to develop a presentation that featured a variety of moving imagery that both captured and further expanded upon this theme. In many respects, you could say that we looked beyond the stars for inspiration, exploring and recreating the array of nebulae and galaxies that lay far beyond our own constellations. These astrological phenomena not only project/reflect light across the universe but some are believed to be regions of new star formations, a concept that we believe to be particularly fitting for an awards ceremony."
Kenyon says that the initial design stages began with a simple pencil and paper to plan and storyboard designs. These designs where then recreated digitally using Adobe After Effects CC CS6 running on an Apple Mac Pro (additional After Effects plugins for this particular project included 'Trapcode Form/Particular' and 'Optical Flares' to name a few). In order to operate this show live FIX8Group will be utilising Watchout Version 6 running on two custom servers.
"We're thrilled to have two of the industry's leading innovators creating especially for the KOI guests this year - we've had a sneak preview of FIX8Group's visuals and Light Initiative's centrepieces and they are incredible," says Sarah Rushton-Read from The Fifth Estate. "We'd like to thank Bryn Williams and his Light Initiative team and Richard Kenyon, Henry Crawfurd and the FIX8Group team for adding even more sparkle and creative technological genius to KOI this year."
(Jim Evans)
