Winners of the ninth Hong Kong Lighting Design Competition join officiating guest, Hon. IP Kwok-him (fifth from left), Member of Legislative Council, and Benjamin Chau (fifth from right), Deputy Executive Director, HKTDC, at the Award Presentation Ceremony

Open Group – Champion

Title of Design: AZEL Moon

Designer: AZ e-lite (HK) Ltd

    AZEL Moon can be easily transformed from a wall-plugged night light into a portable handheld torchlight, making it a perfect lighting companion. No more searching for a torch, because all you need is to take out MOON from its wireless charging plug. With embedded sensors which automatically detect the brightness of the surroundings, you need not worry about turning the light on and off

Open Group – 1st Runner-up & ECO Design Award

Title of Design: TRI

Designer: One Object Design Studio

    TRI is a simple and practical table lamp design with the minimum usage of material, highly-functional structure and lightweight construction.

    TRI is made by a tri-direction holder (POM- engineering plastic) with three wooden sticks, which allows the user to adjust the height of the lamp. LED lighting components are used for higher safety and energy-efficiency levels. It is convenient to use either a power adapter, or directly plug TRI’s USB connection into laptops or other power-supply devices. The packaging of TRI design is a paper-made fiber container with a compact dimension. It is efficient for transportation and logistics. Minimising parts/components allows users to assemble the product easily and facilitates recycling

Open Group – 2nd Runner-up

Title of Design: Bamboo

Designer: Art Top Construction Engineering Ltd

    The design “BAMBOO” is an LED light based on the shape of bamboo. The designer also uses environmentally friendly bamboo as the main material. Every unit of bamboo features a low-voltage LED light source, with soft lighting effects and an emphasis on safety and energy efficiency. The form of the bamboo can be adjusted or rotated 360 degrees for customised lighting settings for different occasions

Student Group – Champion

Title of Design: Planet Lamp

Designer: Chan Yin Man

Institute: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

    Planet Lamp is based on the concept of “Simplicity with Functionality”. Developed from a gyroscope, its centre is a ball-shaped lamp surrounded by three semi-transparent plastic rings. These three rings can rotate around each other with no connecting parts. By adjusting the rings, users can modify the shape of the lamp as well as its light intensity so as to create different lighting effects and moods

Student Group – 1st Runner-up

Title of Design: All By Myself

Designer: Leung Mei Yin

Institute: Hong Kong Design Institute

    All by myself – use your own power to shine! The special feature of the lamp is that it doesn't require electricity. The user just needs to burn the fuel-soaked cotton cord. Sufficient heat energy would be generated to activate the ‘peltier’ for the thermoelectric effect and thus the connected LED light will become luminous. Users can create their own combination by purchasing more than one lamp

Student Group – 2nd Runner-up

Title of Design: Candle

Designer: Ho Tsz Ching

Institute: Hong Kong Community College

    The government is actively promoting glass recycling, including turning glass bottles into bricks used for pavements. However, the process of recycling consumes more energy, which is considered as “downgraded” recycling.

In fact, glass bottles are a valuable material; upcycling it will be more environmentally friendly and the value of recycled glass will be increased too. “Candle” was designed to around the original characteristics of glass bottles, so avoiding carbon dioxide emissions that would be generated from recycling.

  “Candle” is a serving tray made of bamboo, which also has an LED light panel. To create different lighting colours, the user only needs to place different recycled glass on top of the panel to change the atmosphere and create a better environment

My Favourite Lighting Design Award

Title of Design: Harmony

Institute: Design Lava Consultancy Co Ltd
“Harmony” is inspired by the Chinese painting in which the artists express emotion through the abstract features of the object. "Harmony" is an abstract lighting art piece depicting Huangshan's landscape, with the simplified feature of Huangshan and the sea of clouds. The “Cloud” and “Mountain” symbolise the sky and the earth using shapes familiar in traditional Chinese culture.

In terms of its functionality, “Harmony” can be used as a side table lamp to enhance the ambience for a gathering of friends, with the light source seemingly floating like a cloud and shining light from the sky to illuminate our lives

The winning entries of the ninth Hong Kong Lighting Design Competition are on display throughout the Lighting Fair period at Hall 1C Concourse, showcasing local creativity to global buyers