Growing activity in OLED lighting design represented in Japan

The growing body of lighting designers aiming to break OLEDs into the market presented some of their best product designs and concepts at Lighting Japan in January 2014.

A highlight of the event was Bridge, which consisted of a selection of artistic design pieces from the likes of Zaha Hadid. Included among the lighting designs was an OLED chandelier from French firm Blackbody.

There were also firms displaying more standardised product designs based on OLEDs. Panasonic and Philips exhibited a range of OLED lighting products on their stands, while Lumiotec took an extensive stand space to present a wide range of uses for OLED.

The 2014 edition of Lighting Japan incorporated the 6th LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo, as well as the 4th LED/OLED Light Expo. The addition of Design Lighting Tokyo to the expo's co-located shows has helped introduce OLEDs, with inventive designs grabbing the attention of important companies and organisations in the lighting value chain.

Growth
The event aims to build its representation of the OLED community in the coming years. With a substantial amount of OLED lighting activity taking place in Europe, organiser Reed Exhibitions is keen to reach over to firms in the supply chain based in Europe.

Hajime Suzuki, overseas director at Reed Exhibitions, comments: 'Our goal is to make the event truly international. Lots of lighting designers are outside of Japan, and we want to attract a greater number of designers from countries like Germany and the US to the event.'

One possibility for future editions of the event is to host the international meetings for relevant organisations, co-locating the group meetings with the event in Tokyo.

Organisation meetings
A similar approach has been taken with other associations and consortia in the printed and organic electronics industry. The International Electrotechnical Commission's (IEC's) Technical Committee 119 (IEC-TC 119) for standards in printed electronics will host its next meeting alongside the Manufacturing for Printed Electronics Conference in Cambridge, UK, in March 2014.

In January 2014, the Organic Electronics Association held a working group meeting, organised in partnership with the Japan Advanced Printed Electronics Technology Research Association at the Printable Electronics 2014 event in Tokyo.

Lighting Japan 2015 will be held on 14-16 January 2015 at Tokyo Big Sight.

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