Month: September 2012

This glowing signage with blue color is visible from the distances. Also represent the logo or shape clearly. It’s looking good at noon and visible at night. It’s simple solution.

This signage located at Graha Saptaindra, at Simatupang street, nearby Cilandak Town Square (Citos), South Jakarta.

Talking about Signage lighting, as we aware that the signage usually in form of Fonts, Logo, or Images. To make it visible at night, we can add some light to highlight it. The solution for signage lighting can be tailor made solution, Backlighting, Floodlighting. The brief is very clear that the signage will expresses the brand identity. So it must be very visible and recognizable at night.

From photograph shown above, the signage looks good at afternoon. But it will be hard to recognize and visible at night. Why? Because they use tailor made solution signage with blue light. The visible blue light has a wavelength of about 475 nm. Because the blue wavelengths are shorter in the visible spectrum, they are scattered more efficiently by the molecules in the atmosphere. This causes the sky to appear blue. But when in the dark or night, blue color is hard to see or recognized from distances. This cause is still on research and maybe can make a bias. To prove it, just go outside and compare the blue light and red light, which one is easy to recognized from distance.

Simple solution without change the brand identity of this signage is with additional backlight around the signage. It will make this ESQ signage like glowing and will increase the visibility.

In this competitive era, all expenses and impact will be calculated seriously. Especially for industrial and commercial application, they have to innovate how to save their budget. Including for lighting. Since lighting will consume big amount of energy and they have to consider to environtmental effect, find innovative and affordable solution is a must. In this photograph, we will notice that using simple technology will help them save a big amount of money and energy. With help of Semi-Transparent-Polycarbonate roof, they transfer daylight to their warehouse and workshop. Functionally, this material act as real roof, prevent this warehouse from direct-sunlight and rain. The warehouse owner don’t need to switched-on lighting at the afternoon, except when there are dark cloud or in rainy season.

So, this solution is relatively cheap but make big impact to energy saving, cost efficiency and environment friendly.

A White LED consists of a Blue chip and a yellow phosphor. The blue photons generated in the chip can either:

1.travel through the phosphor layer

2.In the phosphor layers it can be converted into a yellow photon.

Those two colors combined will generate white light. With a thicker phosphor layer more photons will be converted to white light, thus changing the color point of the LED. Also the wavelength of the blue photons influences the color of the emitted light. Therefore controlling the phosphor layer from LED to LED and over the chip minimizes the color variation.