Dutch Design and style Week 2015: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans utilized standard glass-blowing tactics to kind these neon lamps with uneven tubes, which she claims to be the 1st of their sort .

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

Bergmans observed that neon was always encased within tubes with a consistent diameter measurement, so started to generate organically-shaped vessels to see how the light was affected when far more widely dispersed.

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

“The undertaking started with me asking yourself why neon is often manufactured inside a normal tube,” Bergmans told Dezeen. “I went to numerous authorities that have been working with neon for ages, and all of them had no thought.”

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

“No person had ever completed it prior to,” she continued. “This materials has been there for this kind of a extended time and nobody had ever wondered this query.”

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

As portion of these original experimentations, Bergmans blew a massive bubble in the middle of a standard neon tube. She spotted that while the light remained powerful and brilliant in the cylinder, it grew to become invisible in the spherical location.


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“It was quite odd, as I initially imagined this is gasoline and it will all illuminate, even when it’s in a wider vessel,” Bergmans mentioned. “But by some means the wider it will get the far more it vanished and disappeared.”

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

The variety, titled Phenomeneon, is produced up of the globe-shaped lamp and a set of wiggly-lined structures which similarly emit an inconsistent sum of light.

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

Neon lighting was invented by French engineer Georges Claude in 1910 to exploit the gas that was developed as a byproduct of his air liquefaction company.

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

In 1923, Claude launched neon gasoline signs to the United States, and the method has been used for outside advertising ever given that.

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

Illumination occurs when voltage is utilized to the electrodes that seal either end of the tube. This then ionises the fuel – causing it to emit a coloured light.

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

The colour emitted depends on the gas within the tube neon offers off orange, hydrogen becomes red, helium appears yellow, carbon dioxide turns into white, and mercury is blue.

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

Bergmans’ intention was to create lamps with a “mysterious result”, in contrast to the common lettering and signage.

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

“Neon lighting was made for lettering, so they wished it to be vibrant and clear. But I really do not seem for people type of issues, I search for more mysterious or other results,” she explained.

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

Bergmans has come up with a assortment of ideas for unusual lighting remedies, and previously produced a technique similar to glass blowing to produce plastic lighting installations shown at Dutch Layout Week 2013.

Phenomenon neon lights by Pieke Bergmans

The designer also worked with Studio Occupation to produce a collection of polished bronze objects with blown-glass lamps spilling out of them for Italian gallery Dilmos.

Phenomeneon was on display at the Kazerne exhibition area in Eindhoven as element of this year’s Dutch Style Week, which takes spot across the city from 17 to 25 October 2015.

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