Tuesday, March 22, 2005

lighting One of our clients is in the lighting industry. I always enjoy learning the "ins and outs" of industry while learning more about them. John Maeda wrote a bit in his weblog a few days ago that was parallel to a conversation I had with the client at about the same time. Food for thought: "I was talking about supply chain management with someone at Herman Miller recently and he told me a story about why GE still makes lightbulbs. Lightbulbs are light in weight, but take a disproportionate amount of space. Furthermore they are extremely fragile. From a logistics point of view, the costs of transporting these goods are quite high. Thus GE still makes lightbulbs in the US because it's simply still too expensive for the Chinese to manufacture and distribute a lightbulb in the United States. Imagine that! It also says something about the future of lighting, when LED's become the dominant means of lighting our spaces. LED's are small, tolerant to high degrees of shock (note the row of red LED's that are usually mounted on the brake light of the trunk area), and as a technology is finally coming down in cost per lumen." [via Maeda's Simplicity] maeda, light, led 2:09:43 PM    comment []  trackback []

Art MoCo: "A shot of modern contemporary art designed to make your day a little more esthetically pleasing." [via MoCo Loco] modern, art, blog 1:41:28 PM    comment []  trackback []