Contests

Alright folks, so this is exciting. The Elemental LED Lighten Up Design Contest, run by our lovely partners at Inhabitat.com, received almost 200 incredible submissions. The top 30 finalists have been chosen, and now its time (by Friday, May 10th) to vote for your favorite submission. Submissions ranged from sleek, modern home lighting projects to Learn More

If you’re a lighting designer, interior designer or architect, you’ll want to enter Elemental LED’s Lighten Up LED Lighting Design Competition, which is hosted through Inhabitat.com. A grand prize of $1000 will be awarded to the winning LED lighting design in each category: residential and commercial. And while you’re at it, be sure to check out Learn More

Last week I started with a preview for today’s blog: 2 houses decked out in RGB LED lights, synched to the 2012 smash YouTube sensation, Oppa Gangnam Style. Today, on Christmas Eve, I bring you the best DIY LED light show I found after scouring several from around the country. Enjoy! The creators behind this Learn More

Italian citizens are ringing in the 150th anniversary of their homeland’s unification this year, and RGB LED strip lights will help them celebrate in style. Designed by architects from the Milan-based firm, Migliore + Servetto Architetti Associati, The Torino Lighting Installation consists of three large steel bars containing waterproof LED lights in the country’s colors: Learn More

Photo By Eran Hakim Here at Elemental LED, we are constantly inspired from the creativity of our customers as seen in our Projects section. So we thought a light painting photo contest would be the perfect way to showcase your creativity – in a different light. *wink* Wondering, “What is light painting?” – scroll down Learn More

Most cities have them: old buildings that are both important historical landmarks and antiquated eyesores. Dupont’s “Changing the Face” competition aims to solve this problem by redesigning existing buildings while maintaining their historical significance, using Dupont products like color-changing LED lights. According to the Changing the Face website, ““In every country, in every city there Learn More

Nothing’s wrong with a little friendly competition, or so we believe at Elemental LED. That’s why last month we kicked off the first in a monthly series of employee DIY LED competitions: to get the creative juices flowing and foster innovation! It goes like this: employees are given a little extra cash to put towards Learn More

Diane Dew, Rob Fix, Charlotte Parscal, Barsha Dahal, Esther Santos, Oliver Adria, David Kastner, Shana Dysert, Greg Spickard, Che A Mathews Hale. Thank you to all who participated!

First Runner Up: Diane Reed, http://ponderingsbydianereed.blogspot.com. Diane captures the late afternoon sun beautifully in this photo taken in a wheat field in Walla Walla, Washington. Second Runner Up: Andrew Neal, www.andrewnealphotography.com. Andrew’s photo really brings out the gold in California’s “golden hills” in this photo of the evening sun taken from his backyard in Brentwood, CA.

Happy Earth Day! Thank you for all who sent us their photos for the Earth Day photo contest celebrating the sun. We had many amazing submissions and our judges had a very difficult time casting their votes for the winners. Alas, we tallied them up, and here is the Grand-Prize winner: Vince Maes http://flic.kr/p/9ucujC The Learn More