Dispatches from Design Lighting Tokyo (part one)


FX assistant editor Emily Martin reports from the third Design Lighting Tokyo exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.


Words and photos by Emily Martin

A year in the planning, a 12-hour flight and a nine-hour time difference I am finally here in Tokyo to attend the Design Lighting Tokyo exhibition, an exhibition exploring the latest trends in lighting design in Japan and Asia. And I'll admit the jet lag is challenging, but considering the sun went down two hours after an 11.30am take-off from Heathrow I prepared myself for a long, dark and sleepless 'night,' which turned out to be favourable. While flying somewhere north of Russia, amid the silent slumber of pretty much all passengers, a few fellow non-sleepers of the flight became an exclusive audience to a spectacular light show as part of our unscheduled in-flight entertainment - the northern lights. A suitable proceeding display to the main exhibition, I'm sure you'll agree.

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Located at Tokyo Big Sight, a grand 230,873015 sq m exhibition venue, 16,000 expected visitors will attend the LED/OLED Light Expo, LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo and Design Lighting Tokyo 2015 events during its three-day's, which totals 280 exhibitors. Day one was marked by the 'opening ribbon-cutting ceremony,' with dignitaries from companies including Philips, NEC Lighting and Everlight present to officially open the event.

As crowds poured into the many halls, the day's keynote speakers included Jeffery Cassis, senior vice president, GM Global Systems PLS for Philips Lighting, delivering a talk entitled 'delivering the promise and potential of digital light.' The evening finished off with a 'VIP reception party,' which took place at the nearby Conference Tower as, what organisers Reed Exhibitions Japan say, 'a prime opportunity to build network ad exchange information with industry executives in a friendly atmosphere.'

An exhausting day, tomorrow will be my change to talk to the exhibitors with (hopefully) subsiding crowds!

 








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