In The Press.
The revolution of lighting
Shin Min Daily News 24 July 2007
Shin Min carried an article on the revolution of lighting featuring the the designers and theirs works of Lightouch Design Competition. These designers included the winner for this competition, Caitlyn Sara MacKenzie from New Zealand, Liu Zhi Li from China, and a two-man team from Korea and local designers, Terrence Woon and Yap Hock Heng. Shin Min noted that Lightouch is an international competition looking for designs that are creative, functional and scalable, with winning works chosen from over 930 entries from 53 countries.
Lightouch Design Competition – Announcement of results
My Paper (centre spread) 21 July 2007
My Paper carried a feature on the results of Lightouch Design Competition featuring several designers and their works. These designers included the winner for this competition, Caitlyn Sara MacKenzie from New Zealand, special mention Liu Zhi Li from China, and a two-man team from Korea. Other works featured include local designers, Terrence Woon and Yap Hock Heng as well as a team from Italy and Vidal Solar Thomas from France.
Lightouch Design Competition
Lianhezaobao Now (front pg) 18 July 2007
Zaobao Now carried a feature on several designers and their works from the Lightouch Design Competition. These designers included the winner for this competition, Caitlyn Sara MacKenzie from New Zealand, Liu Zhi Li from China, a team from Italy and a two-man team from Korea. Liu and the Korean team received special mention at the competition. Local designer, Yun Tian Bao was also featured along with his work, "the way of light".
LighTouch Design Competition 2007 Grand Winner
TAXI Design Network http://www.designtaxi.com/ 18 Jul 2007
On 12th July 2007, the TAXI Design Network crew was at the The LighTouch Design Competition where the Finalists gathered at Space Furniture Millenia Walk, Singapore to await the announcement of the Grand Winner. A total of 939 entries were submitted this year, spanning over 53 countries, namely China, Singapore and USA amongst others. Read more
Lightouch Design 2007 Announces Grand Winner
The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) http://www.icsid.org/
16 July 2007
The Lightouch Design Competition 2007 Grand Winner is announced at the Award Ceremony on July 12, 2007 with Dr. Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, as the Guest-of-Honour.Read More
Cutting edge
The Straits Times Life!. 14 July 2007
The Straits Times Life! featured the winner of the second LightTouch Design Competition on Thursday. Caitlyn Sara Mackenzie from New Zealand used one sheet of white paper for her winning entry, titled 1296. That piece of paper had 1,296 cuts on it. The Straits Times Life! also featured finalist Terence Woon from Singapore.
Lightouch Design Competition 2007 winners
Core 77 Industrial Design Supersite http://www.core77.com/ 13 July 2007
The results are in for Lightouch's Design Competition 2007, which drew 939 submissions from 53 different countries.
The seven finalists from China, France, Italy, Korea, New Zealand and Singapore attended a three-day prototyping workshop at the National University of Singapore (NUS) under the mentorship of FLOS designer Mr. Joris Laarman. As part of the competition's last stage, the finalists were tasked to produce a final prototype of their winning ideas. Read More
Winner of Lightouch Design Competition 2007
Designophy http://www.designophy.com 13 July 2007
The Lightouch Design Competition 2007 Grand Winner is announced at the Award Ceremony on 12 July 2007, with Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, as the Guest-of-Honour.The Grand Winner Caitlyn Sara MacKenzie from New Zealand, selected after a rigorous judging process that culminated in the final stage in Singapore over the last five days, will receive a learning trip to the FLOS factory in Milan, on business class travel, sponsored by FLOS. The winning work entitled "1296" is created with 1296 incised cuts within a two dimensional plane creating an organic form, a delicate dance echoing through layers of contortion. Read More
NZ student designs winning lamp in Singapore competition
Channel NewsAsia (broadcast news coverage) . 12 July 2007
Yahoo! Asia News http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070713/5/singapore287807.html.
13 July 2007
A final-year student from New Zealand has won a competition in Singapore for best lighting design. Hers was picked out of 939 entries from around the world. 11 finalists were short-listed for the DesignSingapore competition. The designers were flown in from countries like China, USA and France, to create prototypes at a workshop held at the National University of Singapore. The judges took into account various criteria when judging the prototypes. Among them were the ease of making the product, its range of uses, and how well the lamp can fit into a home. Read More
Bright ideas LIGHT-MINDED: Innovative
TODAY (centre spread). 11 July 2007
TODAY carried an article on the Lightouch Design Competition organised by DesignSingapore Council and Italian lamp design company Flos. It will see 11 designers from six countries sharing their ideas on innovative lighting products. TODAY noted that seven prototype designs, by individuals and teams, were chosen from over 930 entries from 53 countries. All the finalists have been in Singapore since last week to finalise their designs for the competition, and two of them are from Singapore. TODAY reported that this is the second in a series of Lightouch contests, with the first one, in 2003, being a low key affair. The two Singaporean finalists, Terence Woon and Yap Hock Heng, were also interviewed on their creations. The grand prize winner will be flown to Milan for a tour of the Flos factory there. He or she may also get the chance to be signed up with the Italian company.
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