WWG Licenses LED Product with Wow Factor, May 2002
UK based lighting design and innovation company, Wynne Willson Gottelier (WWG), has entered into an agreement with Bright Lighting LLC of Austin, Texas to manufacture and market a colour-changing LED based lighting product designed principally for the architectural market.

Bright Lighting is a new company set up by Nils Thorjussen, founding partner in Flying Pig Systems and subsequently marketing VP at High End Systems until late last year. WWG worked closely with Thorjussen during the initial marketing of Catalyst™, the automated digital projection system that WWG developed for High End. Now, with his background in entertainment lighting, Thorjussen has seen an opportunity to bring some pizzazz into the architectural arena.

The new product, which is called Color Stream™, is a linear array of LEDs contained within a weather-proof tube that changes colour, creates patterns and moves them along the tube. “It’s just like neon with pixels, or fibre optic with animation,” says Thorjussen, “Color Stream grabs the attention with flowing and ebbing streams of saturated, coloured light. It’s absolutely awesome. In fact, when I first saw Color Stream, all I could say was Wow, I was absolutely stunned!”
Unsurprisingly, the internal codename for the product was the WowLight!

Bright Lighting plan a range of similar products which, like Color Stream, will have mountings and connections that meet IP66 and are therefore suitable for fixing onto the face of buildings as well as for internal use. The tubes are one metre in length and couple together to form a seamless array with an internal data daisy-chain to carry the control information.

WWG first developed the system some years ago. “We had to wait for LEDs to become more accessible from a cost point of view before we had a viable product,” says Tony Gottelier of WWG, “We are delighted to be working with Nils again, he brings a high degree of imagination and professionalism, not to say excitement, to the venture”.

Color Stream can be seen publicly for the first time at Light Fair in San Francisco from June 2nd to June 6th, or you can visit www.pixeon.com.

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