In Praise of Shadows is a one week show at the V&A’s Jones Gallery and runs until the 27th September

Inspired by the EU directive to phase out low efficiency light bulbs by 2012, this display explores the designer’s response to lighting, shadow and efficiency. Drawing together works by designers from across the EU, this project brings humour and beauty to the challenge of energy and light efficiency, and explores the potential of alternative energy sources

Our PLUMEN 2 low energy light bulb design concept has been included in the show so you can see it at the V&A until the 27th September

The exhibition was covered on Friday’s Channel 4 News - see it here

Design and the Elastic Mind at MOMA New York runs from February 24–May 12 and features amongst other things Hulger’s Plumen CFL and a selection of our phone designs. The show is curated by the illustrious Paola Antonelli

From the show’s synopsis:

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design’s most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change.

The Times Hearts Plumen