23 May 2009: Rio De Janiero, Brazil. An awe inspiring UFO flies over Rio’s Copacabana beach.
Cinimod Studio have successfully completed their commission by New York artist Peter Coffin for the technical design, build and delivery of a UFO to be used in Coffin’s unique high-altitude public art performance.
This is the second time the UFO has made a public appearance. It first appeared over the city of Gdansk, Poland, in July 2008. Since then it has been significantly upgraded, and for Rio it featured an additional 150kg of bespoke lighting equipment to create an even greater visual impact.
Cinimod Studio have created the second of their stores for SNOG Pure Frozen Yogurt, this time located in the heart of London’s vibrant Soho.
Cinimod’s design builds upon the brand identity created by ico Design and evolves the strong architectural vision created in the first store SNOG South Kensington, while introducing a different ‘quirk’ in the design: the bubbling ceiling. This lighting feature is comprised of 700 glass globes containing LED lights and presents a new level of visual excitement and public engagement.
An interactive kinetic light installation created in collaboration with designer Chris O’Shea. Beacon was first shown at the Lightwave 2009 exhibition at the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, and will be on display in London’s Kinetica Art Fair starting 27 February 2009.
‘Beacon’ is a kinetic light installation with a mind of its own. An array of emergency beacon lights interacts with visitors, tracking their movement through the space, creating an immersive and playful experience.
The installation exploits a transfer of technologies from existing industrial products. The beacon lights have had their internal parts replaced with custom hardware, enabling the rotation of the reflector and lamp brightness to be individually controlled. Thermal imaging cameras have been adapted to track the participants’ movement through the space.
Last weekend saw the spectacular launch of the UK’s first Restaurant and Bar Awards dedicated exclusively to design. To celebrate the occasion, Dominic Harris of Cinimod Studio was commissioned to create an outdoor interactive lighting installation. Conceived as an exploded blank canvas, the huge “exploded globe of light” was suspended from the trees over London’s famed Hoxton Square and was interactively controlled by the guests.
The UFO flew in along the coast from the nearby town of Sopot, and then circled the centre of Gdansk. The UFO made its startling and surprising appearance soon after sunset. It appeared to be covered in lights displaying a series of geometric colour patterns. “
The October Series is a collection of light based artworks that bring the excitement of some of our larger projects to a series of immediately available wall hanging mini-installations. These artworks were unveiled on June 3rd 2008 at the Prima Design Show where Cinimod Studio was exhibited by International Art Consultants. The artworks display a seemingly impossible depth of three-dimensional light arrays.
Cinimod Studio is pleased to announce the successful opening of their first ‘SNOG’ store in London. ‘SNOG’ is a specialist food outlet that exclusively sells pure frozen yogurt, and is the first one of its kind in the UK. The design brief was to create a new high-end interior that was uniquely British and wholly original.
This range of exciting artworks feature an intriguing combination of three-dimensional arrays of interactive colour movements controlled in real-time by the environment within which it is placed.
Cinimod Studio is regularly involved in the design of large events such as fundraising dinners, private parties, corporate events and concert staging. Using innovative designs that have evolved through a thorough investigation of the venue and the client’s brief, each project seeks to establish a ‘visual theater’ of lighting and staging that will define the character of the event.
Softroom architects approached Cinimod Studio to collaborate on this commission by Imperial Property to design a large permanent artwork to be integrated within the base of a new tower block development in Reading.
100 miniature paper lanterns formed a gently animated canopy of glowing light across the venue, meeting the brief to create an alternative to the traditional candelabra (health and safety often dictates that no live flames can be used in public areas).
Cinimod Studio was commissioned by the events production company Urban Caprice to do the lighting and video design for one of their major events. Sited within the ground floor of the Atlantis Gallery, the evening included a performance by the Dandy Warhols, followed by music from DJ Sasha.
Cinimod Studio was commissioned to design the lighting scheme for the anniversary party of CGL Architects. The venue was the Boiler Room of Truman Brewery, on East London’s Brick Lane.
Cinimod Studio was involved in the Hong Kong launch of the new Muon speakers by Kef. While the focus was undoubtedly on the impeccably elegant new speakers designed by Ross Lovegrove, the product launch brief was to create a interactive visual display to complement the organic forms of the speakers.
Cinimod Studio was invited for a 10 day visit to Hong Kong and Beijing in order to collaborate on a series of lighting projects, including some large scale permanent lighting works and interactive art installations. While details of the projects remain confidential, the following photos show some of the superb architectural developments currently nearing completion in anticipation of the 2012 Olympic Games.
As a part of my on-going brief to say abreast of the latest technologies which I use in my work, I recently made a visit to the LED production facilities of Cotco in China.
Interactive Art Lighting Installation, London. 2007.
This collaboration with Jason Bruges Studio and make architects for their new project on Baker Street serves as an example of how art and lighting can be combined with architecture from the on-set of a project.
My final major project whilst working at Jason Bruges Studio was an interactive 8-storey high chandelier suspended within the atrium of international law firm Allen and Overy. The chandelier is comprised of a three dimensional matrix of globes that are set out in direct relation to the architectural grid of this Norman Foster building.
