Marta Wajda’s Screen Light

A wall partition, a suspended light fixture or ‘floating ceiling’: Marta Wajda’s Screen Light is wildly versatile. Rather than operating as a rigid structure, it drapes like a piece of cloth. The Screen Light is composed of LumiTEC wire (imagine ultra-flexible, skinny glow-sticks) woven into a semi-permeable mesh-like pattern. Use it to create a degree of privacy or for partial concealment; suspend it vertically as a smooth sheet or drape it elegantly. White, turquoise, yellow, lemon, red, green and blue: the LED light screen can entirely alter the ambiance of a space.

LumiTEC wires are commonly used to create impressive light advertisements, objects marking or decorative elements in clubs, theatres or cinemas. Combined with aluminum profiles, they light stair edges and niches or trace escape routes (similarly to Zoon’s Blind LED light - the combo stair railing/light fixture). The wire itself is surrounded by the flexible outer shell: colored or transparent, for a glow-stick reminiscent aesthetic.  Wajda uses these wires to create the flexible mesh-pattern that is her Screen Light. Although its with is limited to 1, 1.5 and 2 meters, the screen can reach any height.

Marta Wajda is a young Polish designer. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and won a 2007 mention the international competitions Bright LED as well as reinvent. Her idea for Bright LED, consisting of LED lighting and plexi-glass cut into intricate patterns, revealed her knack for lighting design. The concept for this glowing-three-dimensional object was based on ”Wycinanki”, a decorative scissor-cut colored paper design that originated in the 19th century when eastern European peasants could readily obtain inexpensive, colored paper.

Marta Wajda’s Screen Light is an amazing concept - not something you can pick up at the store. Regardless, check out her work at Behance.net