Close up of a textured 'Pebble' screen panel side lit top and bottom with RGB LEDs, here shown on blue.
This material, unique to Blowzone, can be cut in single sheets of up to 3000 mm x 1200 mm, making ideal for specification within the modern architectural interior.
Blowzone installed this 3m high sculpture in front of the Wesleyan Insurance building in Birmingham in September 2008 and commissioned by ' Garden Square'. This shot was taken mid-afternoon and the textured acrylic is just starting to become illuminated.
Blowzone had the software specially written for this piece of public art ; There are over 10 metres of high brightness RGB LEDs within the piece, each scrolling simultaneously ,controlled by a bespoke chip. Created from textured 20 mm acrylic and side-lit with waterproof full-colour RGB LEDs.
The three standing forms are further complimented with thick polished stainless steel runners.
Close-up of the 'sandbar ' design, here photographed, side lit with red LED, after rain.
Close up of a section of chandelier, commissioned by a private client who has built their own house incorporating many features reminiscent of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We have again used the 'Sandbar' design and RGB LEDs
hidden away within the bespoke framework.
Image showing the three four-finned forms hanging within the space they were designed for. This is a large
vaulted atrium within the house. The chandelier echoes the forms also utilised within the balustrade.
The whole assembly can be left to colour-scroll or can be frozen on ANY colour including white. Controlled via RF.
3 m long one-of-a-kind light commissioned by private clients. Constructed from polished stainless steel, acrylic spheres and fibre optics, the light also contains a bank of white 'task' lights.
Another view illustrating the true capability of the lighting system. There are 640 separate fibre optics feeding
640 acrylic spheres; these are all linked to a central controller that separates them into 8 integrated zones.
When the on-board microphone detects sound , the software reacts and causes the whole display to interact
with the music or vocals.
The Firefly chandelier uses a revolutionary approach to fibre optics. Eighty strands of fibre emanate from a stainless steel ceiling fitting, each with its' own acrylic sphere firmly attached. All flow back to an integral
and unique 7 watt colour change unit small enough to fit within the 60 mm deep housing.
View of a 4m long Firefly, commissioned by a private client in Solihull. This arrangement uses 158 fibre optic tails, two LED controllers and two sizes of acrylic balls. The LEDs will not need changing , unlike their halogen counterparts, for around 10 years.
Underside view of the same lighting installation; here one can see the varied hues of light transmitted through the fibre optics from the colour-changing LED unit. All this runs at just 15 watts; the LED unit is small enough to hide in the top unit which is around 70 mm deep.
A close-up of the interactive ' leaf' light showing the glowing centres of the acrylic spheres.
A recent commission involved using the textured acrylic as a major feature within the 'point of sale' furniture within Clarins NEW flagship store at Selfridges in London. All the items were linked to a programmable unit that set all colour output as a reflection of the latest product to be marketed.
The consultation table featured the Clarins' leaf motif made from our material as the centre detail.
The consultation table had at the rear two large screens that here are set to blue.
A close up of the 'pebble' design incorporated into the round mirror surround.
Blowzone has now been working with acrylic for the last five years and above
can be seen two main avenues of exploration. Following an extensive period of R+D , Blowzone have created a highly decorative
material that fuses CNC technology and state-of-the-art LED lighting.
Two distinctive designs have been developed, each of which is machine cut into
the surface of a 20 mm acrylic sheet.
Each unique pattern has been designed to radiate when side lit; the three dimensional perspective is further enhanced through the depth of the material
as the point of view changes.
Blowzone can create single sheets of up to 3000 mm x 1200 mm, making this a unique but idea lmaterial for architectural consideration.
