Creative LED lighting design contest winners show us what’s possible

Posted by Ginny Skalski

We’re so focused on lighting businesses, offices and homes with energy-efficient LED lights, that we don’t often take time to show off other cool applications for LEDs. But that doesn’t mean we don’t support using LEDs in other ways.

Take a look at some of these creative ways that university students in China came up with to use LEDs in our first creative LED lighting contest:

Nearly 1,000 students representing about 100 universities in China submitted hundreds of design entries. Fifty designs were chosen for the final round of judging and the winner received US $3,000, with runners up snagging $1,500 for their creative designs. 

The entries were judged based on creativity, practicality, marketability, LED performance, artistic quality and energy efficiency. The first place prize went to a project called “Lighting to Share,” which used a magnetic effect to form different lighting modes, emphasizing lighting effects and LED lighting features. It was submitted by Huang Jiongzhang, Du Weizheng and Ni Yujun from Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University. Here’s a pic of the winning entry:

Sure, these unique LED lighting projects might never light your house, but we’re hoping that contests like this will help  show what can be done with LEDs and will inspire even more LED lights in the future.

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