Per and Bastian are the driving force behind Humans since 1982. Since 2009 the Studio creates fascinating works of design.
”Collection of light” is a striking example of their approach and vision. This conceptual design is basically a collection of various types of industrial produced LED’s which are “collected” and archived just like a collection of butterflies or like plants and flowers in a botanic herbarium. The LED’s are all labeled by name, size and colour temperature and carefully archived in a cabinet. They are arranged in a specific order to accomplish a harmonic light composition. The result is a piece of conceptual design which makes an interesting contradicting statement. On one hand the “collection of light” forms a functional lamp itself and exposes each LED as a worthy industrial product and on the other hand it places the LED’s in another, autonomous, context and turns them into “Ready Mades”, similar to for example Marcel Duchamp’s Bottle Rack.

Photos by: Tim Meier | Humans since 1982 website