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Wonsik Chae’s “Lighting Bag”

One of my favorite bloggers, Jim Hutchison of Jim on Light (he’s chief design consultant for Alive Lighting, an entertainment lighting design firm), recently found this gem–“lighting bags” containing fluorescent materials, which react with chemicals in a cup.

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The result is illumination, seemingly from a “tea bag” (but unfortunately inedible), the product of South Korean industrial designer Wonsik Chae.

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Check it out here, including a cool short showing the process in action.

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Craig DiLouie
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