Palm Beach Blooms - Dan Shaughnessy IV created Stainless Steel Dandelions w/ interactive technology – The project includes 6 large scale stainless dandelions over 15ft tall installed in West Palm Beach Downtown. These flowers are fabricated from 100% Marine Grade Stainless Steel w/ industrial rated lighting systems. Each flower is designed to withstand all the elements; wind, rain, salt as well as low to zero maintenance. One of the main requirements for this project was to design the flowers to withstand up to 200mph winds. With my engineering team, we were able to calculate the wind load specifications for each individual flower. These blooms were engineered to withstand Category 5 winds and all the elements that come with it. The installation for this project required a great deal of coordination and over 25 people on site. The Blooms roughly weigh over 1,200lbs and were lifted into place with a 100ton crane blind. While the sculptures hovered in place, the electrical team reversed wired over 250ft of data / power cables. The Palm Beach Blooms are programmed to have a variety of exciting light sequences. With help from Eos Lightmedia, we designed these light arrays to encourage interaction from the public. Using data and sensors in the space, we were able to have a wide range of possibilities. This enables the administrator to not only use the pre-programmed light arrays but also create new sequences for particular occasions and events.
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Active Glass

Light is not just a vital part of our everyday lives, but a major source of inspiration when planning work spaces, homes and commercial buildings. It drives architects and designers to seek out innovative modes of expression. Now you can harness the LEDs embedded inside Glassiled to open up whole new dimensions for your creativity. The LEDs (Light-emitting diodes) – either monochrome or RGB (red, green, blue) – are powered via a super-efficient, transparent conductive layer. Vision is not obstructed and the glass retains its primary function: transparency. And then, at the flick of a switch, you can illuminate your medium and transform it any way you wish. No longer a mere construction material, glass is now a vehicle for your unique creative powers!

Byzantivm Hospitality

Byzantivm Hospitality is headquartered in Miami and fabricated Istanbul; – a city with millennia of artisanal craftsmanship, and pride for excellence, coursing through its veins – and features a vast team artisans from a multi-generational master/apprentice model, who are as at-home with traditional materials and processes, such as Murano glass-blowing, ironwork, woodwork and upholstering, as they are with new cutting-edge materials and technologies, including modern polymers and alloys, RGB and single-color LEDs, COB and color-tuned LEDs, fade-to-2700ºK LED, photometry, 3D modeling and printing, and CNC / laser cutting.

Atelier Mel

Atelier MEL is a designer and manufacturer of high quality contemporary light fittings that blend modern digital techniques with traditional glass craftsmanship.We have brought together digital designers, engineers, architects and artisans in a team with a single goal: rethink the glass craftsmanship to take it one step further.MEL was launched at the end of 2013 in Spain, the country where all its products are entirely designed and manufactured. It soon opened its market overseas and currently develops projects worldwide.

Featured Fabricators.

Buitink Technology

Buitink Technology is specialized in the development, production, delivery and installation of products and turn key solutions where canvas, foil and technical textiles are involved. We focus on area's of construction, architecture, industry and various other markets where our products have added value to the customer. www.buitink-technology.com

Concept Urbain

For 30 years, Concept Urbain has been shaping urban landscapes.
Our aim: to be involved in the improvement of urban ecosystems, combining sustainable performance with a contemporary a aesthetic approach. Our laboratory, as a genuine center for research and development in street furniture, promotes the emergence of innovative projects which keep track of developments in urban practices and aesthetic trends. Drawing on our belief that the appropriation of space involves a better understanding of people and the more effective consideration of the environment, our street furniture are based upon tailor-made and rational design. www.concepturbain.fr

Featured Fabricators.

James Parker Sculpture

JAMES PARKER FIRST BEGAN MANIPULATING STONE QUITE EARLY IN LIFE. AT ONLY FOUR YEARS OF AGE, HE ASSISTED HIS FATHER IN REPAIRING GAPS IN THE DRYSTONE WALLS SURROUNDING THE FAMILY FARM IN GALLOWAY, SOUTH WEST SCOTLAND. THIS SIMPLE BONDING EXPERIENCE SPARKED AN INTEREST IN STONEWORK, WHICH WOULD EVENTUALLY TURN INTO BOTH PASSION AND PROFESSION. 2007 SAW THE CREATION OF HIS FIRST SCULPTURE IN SLATE, AND BY JUNE 2008 HIS FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBITION WAS UNDERWAY. SEVERAL EXHIBITIONS HAVE SINCE FOLLOWED, INCLUDING MULTIPLE ACCOLADES AND AWARD-WINNING YEARS AT THE RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW

Jason Krugman Studio

Jason Krugman attended Tufts University and studied Economics and Fine Arts. After graduating, Krugman struggled to imagine a career as a fine artist and instead focused on economics and later finance. He worked at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch processing structured credit trades prior to the financial collapse. In early 2007, with no inkling of the impending calamity, Krugman returned to school to study technology and art. Inspired by the burgeoning use of electricity and code to create interactive art, he enrolled at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU. Krugman learned about microcontrollers, soldering, digital fabrication and new materials. His thesis at ITP, a wind sensitive LED array, was blogged about by Kanye West which in turn got him his first commercial commission, making a larger, more portable version to show at several large music festivals. Krugman soon after began receiving inquiries to make permanent LED installations for buildings and people’s homes. Today, Krugman’s practice is still based around the design and execution of new types of LED artworks. He has developed a hand-soldered LED mesh, several cable systems, and a variety of custom printed circuit boards for LED artworks. He specializes in arranging electricity and lights in 3-dimensional space. His sculptures often use their physical structure to conduct electricity to the light sources. This eliminates most of the insulated wiring and connectors allowing thousands of lights to sit softly among minimal wire forms.

Joseph & Curtis Custom Wine Cellars

Joseph & Curtis began over a glass of wine and too little volatility in the stock market. Joe Kline and Curt Dahl were both traders. Joe began trading on the floor of the CME, where he met Curtis in 1990. In his off time, he had an incredible passion for desig

Moonako

Moonako edits and manufactures furniture for the creation of living spaces and hospitality areas in public-access establishments. Theaters and cinemas, schools and universities, shops, leisure centers, museums and libraries, stations and airports, hotels and restaurants, gardens and open-air attractions – all these facilities can be elegantly enhanced by Moonako furniture. With subtle and contemporary design, its collections combine quality of use and quality of materials. www.moonako.fr/en

Turnipseed Design

We create and manufacture high quality lighting in our artisan workshop. We have extensive experience in lighting and the development of various products.  

 We make lights specifically for your projects that will enhance the atmosphere of your space. Whether it is a simple play of light and shadow or colored patterns, through movements energized by programming or kinetic pieces, our playing field is vast and will adapt to your needs.

  We offer our services from preliminary drawings and prototypes to manufacturing. By developing your projects with our team, you can bring your ideas to life. We will respect the spirit of your design and find original solutions that will give a greater impact to your project.