Blackbody and Cibicworkshop presented at Milano design Week 2013

Bonzai design combines environmentally-friendy high-tech lighting and artisan craftsmanship

30 Apr 2013 | Editor

Blackbody and Cibicworkshop presented at the recently held Milano design Week 2013 a new OLED lighting product - Bonzai. The new lamp design makes use of round OLED lighting panels, and combines environmentally-friendy high-tech lighting and artisan craftsmanship. Blackbody OLED are produced in France.

Bonzai is the result of on-going collaboration between Cibicworkshop and Blackbody. Their first experimentation and research on design and technology "Wonderoled" was presented in 2012 as an exhibit at Triennale di Milano.

Each OLED panel are only 2 mm thick offering ultra-low enery absorbing, ultra flat, glare-free, and heat-free illuminations. The panles have a lifetime of 20,000 hours life. According to the designers OLED lighting is expected to radically reinvent home lighting.

Bonzai techncial specifications

The Bonzai lamp uses 12 circular OLED lighting panels
The panels are made by Blackbody
The panels are 5.8 cm in diameter
The lamp has a colour temperature of 3000K
The lamp has an efficiency of 25 lm/W
The lamp is dimmable
The lamp has a brightness of 2000 cd/m²
The lamp structure is made from "hand-blown" glass

About Cibicworkshop

CibicWorkshop is the research center founded by Aldo Cibic: a group of young designers and architects, led by Aldo Cibic, Chuck Felton, Aria Behbehani and Tommaso Corà, working on interdisciplinary projects ranging from environment development, new services and activities concepts, to product design.

CibicWorkshop constantly collaborates with an international network of universities, research centers and business incubators to develop new design methods.

Source: Cibicworkshop

About Blackbody OLED

Blackbody provides flexibility and boldness, essential to the development of this new market and to the exploration of the OLED technology potential applied to lighting.

Thanks to unique infrastructures including a large evaporator, the production site located in Toulon offers a production capacity suited to this growing market demand, making the mass production of OLED technology both possible and affordable.

In 2010, 6,000 m² of OLED panes were produced on-site thanks to an international team of 22 talented collaborators who pushed technology forward on a daily basis and integrated their innovations into everyday products

Source: Blackbody OLED