- Davidson, Charlie. Charlie-davidson.com. 28 April 2011 <www.charlie-davidson.com>.
Mr. Davidson has explored many different furniture design projects. Among his many interests he has been most attached to designing seats, tables, and luminaries. In his designs he explores forms that promote texture and materials that highlight weight and color. Within the luminaries that Mr. Davidson has designed there is a reoccurring theme of an explosion. Four projects that explore the theme of explosion through layers of light, shadow, and color are IRIS2, RUFF, Monster, & Black Light. Each design utilizes a technique where the outer shell of the luminaries is opaque and the light emanates from within. He selective creates varying patterns of opaqueness for which the light to pass around. On the reverse side of the opaque shell’s are vibrant colors that light reflects, again passed the dark opaque shell, to the viewer. His technique allows him to create varying experiences depending on the combination of transparency and color the luminaries encompass.
- Stattmann, Petra Schmidt & Nicola. Unfolded. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2009.
Unfolded is collections of artist that have used paper for various design projects. The authors intention is reintroduce a common material back into the world of design, and re explore its properties that make it unique.
- Indexhibit. Kimiis.28 April 2011 <www.kimiis.ca>.
Kimiis is a design firm of architects, engineers and designers. There firm is multidisciplinary but focus on digital fabrication. Bright idea, one of their installation, was on display at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. The installation was multimedia experience where the digital fabricated screen separated the user from the crowd to achieve a unique experience. Aside from the multimedia aspect of the installation, the digital fabricated wood ribs evoke a compelling array of light and shadow that becomes more pronounce from the artificial colored light.
- Wang, Hongbiao. Hongbiao Wang | Won Ju lim’s work. 28 April 2011 <hongbiao-roxanne.blogspot.com/2008/03/architectural-forms.html>.
Won Ju Lim is sculpture in Los Angeles. Her luminarie installation are interesting because they not only incorporate architectural forms, but they rely on the use of colored acrilic material to bounce and reflect light throughout the geometric forms. The effect produces intriguing gradient of reflected and bounce color lite from underneath.
- Art, San Francisco Museum of. Take your Time: Olafur Eliasson. Ed. Madeleine Grynsztein. San Francisco / New York & London: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Thames & Hudson, 2007.
- Christo, Jeanne – Claude. Christojeanneclade.net. 10 05 2011 <www.christojeanneclaude.net/tg.shtml>.
Jeanne and Claude Christo work deal primarily with the texture and color of fabric. Their work, especially The Gates Project in Central Park in New York City, was of interest to me because it deals with the contrast of colors in gray environments
- James Carpenter Environmental Refractions by Sandro Marpillero, Princeton Architectural Press: NY, 2006
Mr. Carpenter focuses on the reflected and refracted quality of light. The refracted aspect of his work isn’t as of interest to me as the reflective quality of some of his pieces. Of the most interest is his installation entitled the Dichroic Light Field where he installed horizontal planes of color for the light to reflect off of.
- Lucie-Smith, Edward. Visual Arts in the 20th Century.New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 1996.
In this book work of Donald Judd is the most relevant to my project. His installation entitled Untitled 1967 best represents the qualities of light and shadow through geometry and reflected color are qualities that I see as valuable to my work.
- Erwin Hauer, Continua, Architectural Screens and Walls.
