Happenstance Collaboration in Lighting Design
Last week we published a feature on Ketra, a lighting tech company that designs all the components for each of its bulbs in-house, quite like how Apple makes its products. This week, we bring your attention to another lighting story, but one from a different perspective. Any number of beginning points can happen when a new product is conceived. The most basic of those is when a company provides a design team with a specific design brief, often backed by market research and trend reflection, sometimes accompanied by a sensible attempt to fill a gap in its product portfolio. But, as many in the industry know from experience, some of the best products come from happenstance: coincidental collaborations between the right people that somehow seem to fall into place at the right moment. These are often the most rewarding types of collaborations; experiences that you remember as markers throughout your …