Portal
Portal Light Hallway by Akiko Yamashita is a winner of the 2018 Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design.
Portal is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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'Portal' is a led hallway designed by artist Akiko Yamashita in the weller court plaza in Little Tokyo Los Angeles in 2015. Inspired by neon light and prism, the spiral made with 7000 pixels of light welcomes visitors to the building's plaza. Color animation is changing throughout the day and night. It has become a destination portal - formally a dark tunnel - has been transformed by the designer.
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Portal by Akiko Yamashita
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Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award Winner in 2018.
Silver Winner
Portal Light Hallway
Portal is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Portal is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Portal is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
Winner Designer
Akiko Yamashita
Akiko Yamashita is 3d Artist from Japan lives in Los Angeles. She brought light and colors to the city. She is focused in projection mapping, 3d animation and light art.
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Akiko Yamashita
Akiko Yamashita is an visual artist specialized in light installation, projection mapping, 3d design and animation. She combines different mediums and latest technology to create illuminated experiences. Her background is a professional dancer. Various elements that makes a show - music, stage design, lighting, fashion and choreography are the core of her creations.
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