Date Announced: 12 Nov 2012 OSRAM has announced Christopher Vater of WILA as the winner of its cutting-edge OLED luminaire design contest.Using innovative and distinctive OLED (organic LED) materials from OSRAM, Christopher Vater won with a luminaire design that gives a glimpse of what the future of lighting could look like.Hosted within the OSRAM stand are the final luminaire designs from The Artist - OLED Luminaire Design Contest. Judged by visitors to the stand, the aim of the contest is to inspire the next generation of designers, with new and distinctive OLED materials. The Artist’ competition gave designers a chance to use a range of spectacular OLED components from OSRAM to create their own masterpiece, with the winner receiving a GBP1,000 prize fund.The competition also demonstrates how OLED is able to offer completely new illumination options in the most varied of application areas. The light source becomes the luminaire, in a way that is both organic and extremely flexible. Ten designs were shortlisted, including entries from Buro Happold, Cooper Industries, P&A Projects, Riegens and WILA.Ian Cathcart, National Sales Manager, OEM, OSRAM UK, comments: “Congratulations to our worthy winner, Christopher Vater, a Product Designer at WILA, for harnessing the incredible possibilities of OLED with a design that impressed all the visitors to the OSRAM stand. Innovation is at the heart of what we do at OSRAM, which is why we were keen to run a competition to inspire the next generation of designers.”Whilst traditional LED light sources are pin points of light, OLED is an ultra-thin lighting material which is transparent, diffused or reflective. The results are spectacular light applications making any room distinctively unique. With no cooling element, no lens and no reflector, the ultra-flat organic light diodes are light in its purest form. As a Pure Light Player, OSRAM covers the entire value added chain for OLED in this future-oriented field, from panels and modules to luminaires. ABOUT OSRAMOSRAM GmbH (Munich, Germany) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens AG and one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world. In fiscal year 2011 (ended September 30, 2011), it generated revenue of about 5 billion Euros. Osram is a high-tech company in the lighting sector and more than 70 percent of its revenue comes from energy efficient products. The company, which is very much internationally oriented, has around 41,000 employees worldwide, supplying customers in 150 countries from its 44 production sites in 16 countries (as of September 30, 2011).
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