Metro LED lighting is now offering a family of outdoor lighting fixtures that are DLC listed with rebates available. These new products include an LED canopy light with a prismatic lens, and a 12″ x 12″ square housing. Also added to the DLC list, are a medium size, rounded back LED Floodlight, and LED Wall Packs in a standard wedge shape. In addition included in the DLC listing, is a flexible contemporary design wall pack/ wall washer. By being DLC listed, assures that these outdoor lighting luminaires are tested, meet performance requirements led light in china, and fulfill the L-70 requirements for long LED life.
nergy Efficient, LED Retrofits for HID Outdoor Lighting
The LED canopy lights, floodlights and wedge-shaped wall packs are very similar design to traditional HID fixtures. This line of LED outdoor lighting is well-suited as a one-for-one replacement of existing HID lighting. Unlike HID outdoor fixtures, LEDs luminaries require no routine maintenance, and are very long-lasting. These retrofits for HID lighting are energy efficient and often achieved over 90 lumens per watt of light output. These LED outdoor lighting fixtures are very price competitive with HID lighting, yet offer large energy savings and eliminate maintenance cost warm LED spot lights gu10. By being DLC listed and having rebates available, lowers installed costs, accelerates paybacks, thus making a compelling case for retrofitting HID site lighting.
These are standard LED Wall Packs in a common wedge shape, and are available in a medium sized full cutoff design (9″ x 14″) or a larger higher light output (7″ x 18″) fixture. The fixtures are available in models from 14 watts to 56 watts
This canopy light is a standard 12″ x 12″ box fixture, with a vandal resistant polycarbonate lens. It is available in models ranging from 14 watts to 42 watts. It is ideal for replacing metal halide (MH) fixtures in canopies, or under eaves and soffits.
Round Back LED Floodlight This is a medium sized LED floodlight with a rounded back, LED MR16 Spot light for mounting distances up to 30 feet. It is ideal for signs, wall washing, or flagpole lighting. It produces up to 93 lumens per watt and is very efficient source of high quality light.
LED Wall Pack / Wall Washer in a Contemporary Design
As a contemporary designed wall pack or wall washer, this LED fixture is available in two models at 30 watts and 59 watts. This LED fixture can be used as a wall washer, or used as a pole light with a mounting adapter.
2014年6月23日星期一
When is it art, and when is it art for a t-shirt?
This is somewhat related to my previous post of knowing when to not use a design for your line. I think an extremely important distinction is knowing when something is an awesome piece of artwork, and when something is an awesome t-shirt design interlining supplier. There are many designs that overlap the two areas, but there are others that absolutely do not; not all rectangles are squares. A graphic t-shirt is a form of expression and wearable art, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that if a piece of artwork looks great on paper or the computer, it’ll look equally as good on a t-shirt.
First thing is to consider the audience. Typically, I try to design for myself, so when I’m creating a collection. I have to honestly evaluate if someone like me would wear the t-shirt out in public. We all fall in love with our own labels, so it’s easy to say that you would wear your own stuff out of pride, but it’s important to be able to admit if you wouldn’t actually want to wear something. Again, if it’s something you’re not satisfied with, how can you sell it to your customers? Think about your target audience, and what kind of clothes they are into. Are they into big ass bold prints, or are they into minimal designs? Research is key! Look at other successful brands that inspire you, and see what they are doing correctly Double Dot Non Woven Interlining. I’m not saying that you should copy another brand, but using another successful brand as a point of comparison and reference is not a bad thing.
Another thing I often consider is the composition of a t-shirt. Not composition as in, what is the t-shirt made of, but imagine the t-shirt as a canvas and consider the composition of an image. As a designer or art director, you have to think about the placement and negative space that the design creates. A couple years ago, people were into oversized prints that nearly covered the entire shirt, but is that the case anymore? Print out the design on a piece of paper at its full-size and tape it on to a t-shirt as a mock-up. How does it look and fit? How does it fall on the shirt?
Considering where design elements compositionally fall on a t-shirt is important as well. Say you have a t-shirt design with a bicycle on it. You probably wouldn’t want the two wheels to accentuate the nipples of whoever is wearing it. Additionally, I find it awkward when prints are placed too low, and accentuate the stomach and torso of the person wearing it, rather than the chest. Obviously, if that’s your intention, then go for it, but generally, most people like having t-shirt designs on the upper portion of the shirt rather than the lower portion.
Also think about the scalability of the design. Unless you’re making multiple screens for multiple sizes, most brands will be creating one screen regardless of the size of the shirt. Ideally, you want the design wendler Interlining to look just as good as it does on a small shirt as it does on an extra large. I find that a lot of people design to fit on a medium shirt, because that’s relatively neutral, but sometimes that makes the design look too big and bleed off the edges on a size small and the design looks too small on an extra large. Additionally, if you’re considering alternative placements of the design, rather than just a chest print, think of how the negative space is activated. If the design is placed on the lower portion of the shirt, it sends a different message. If you’re going to place something in the corner of a shirt, make sure it’s intentional, and not just to be different.
I think the best thing to do is get a lot of different opinions on your stuff from people that can be honest with you. Try to be as objective as you can when you look at your own brand, and don’t be offended if someone gives you harsh criticism. Building a brand is all about evolving; don’t be close-minded. I think my best advice on the subject of choosing t-shirt designs to print would be to not fall in love with anything, and have an open mind about editing, or even getting rid of designs that don’t work.
First thing is to consider the audience. Typically, I try to design for myself, so when I’m creating a collection. I have to honestly evaluate if someone like me would wear the t-shirt out in public. We all fall in love with our own labels, so it’s easy to say that you would wear your own stuff out of pride, but it’s important to be able to admit if you wouldn’t actually want to wear something. Again, if it’s something you’re not satisfied with, how can you sell it to your customers? Think about your target audience, and what kind of clothes they are into. Are they into big ass bold prints, or are they into minimal designs? Research is key! Look at other successful brands that inspire you, and see what they are doing correctly Double Dot Non Woven Interlining. I’m not saying that you should copy another brand, but using another successful brand as a point of comparison and reference is not a bad thing.
Another thing I often consider is the composition of a t-shirt. Not composition as in, what is the t-shirt made of, but imagine the t-shirt as a canvas and consider the composition of an image. As a designer or art director, you have to think about the placement and negative space that the design creates. A couple years ago, people were into oversized prints that nearly covered the entire shirt, but is that the case anymore? Print out the design on a piece of paper at its full-size and tape it on to a t-shirt as a mock-up. How does it look and fit? How does it fall on the shirt?
Considering where design elements compositionally fall on a t-shirt is important as well. Say you have a t-shirt design with a bicycle on it. You probably wouldn’t want the two wheels to accentuate the nipples of whoever is wearing it. Additionally, I find it awkward when prints are placed too low, and accentuate the stomach and torso of the person wearing it, rather than the chest. Obviously, if that’s your intention, then go for it, but generally, most people like having t-shirt designs on the upper portion of the shirt rather than the lower portion.
Also think about the scalability of the design. Unless you’re making multiple screens for multiple sizes, most brands will be creating one screen regardless of the size of the shirt. Ideally, you want the design wendler Interlining to look just as good as it does on a small shirt as it does on an extra large. I find that a lot of people design to fit on a medium shirt, because that’s relatively neutral, but sometimes that makes the design look too big and bleed off the edges on a size small and the design looks too small on an extra large. Additionally, if you’re considering alternative placements of the design, rather than just a chest print, think of how the negative space is activated. If the design is placed on the lower portion of the shirt, it sends a different message. If you’re going to place something in the corner of a shirt, make sure it’s intentional, and not just to be different.
I think the best thing to do is get a lot of different opinions on your stuff from people that can be honest with you. Try to be as objective as you can when you look at your own brand, and don’t be offended if someone gives you harsh criticism. Building a brand is all about evolving; don’t be close-minded. I think my best advice on the subject of choosing t-shirt designs to print would be to not fall in love with anything, and have an open mind about editing, or even getting rid of designs that don’t work.
2012年10月19日星期五
The Carl F. Bucherer Manero ChronoPerpetual
Intelligent dial design ensures that all the indications are functional, readable and useable. Clever use of dual-purpose subdials – hours and days at 6 o’clock, minutes and months at 9 o’clock and dates of the month and seconds at 12 o’clock – allows enough space to showcase that superb silvery moon-phase disc on the right of the dial. Recessed displays and contrasting finishes are employed to individualise the indications.
The intrinsics are no less accomplished. A precision Flyback Chronograph will time the hours, minutes and seconds, whilst the Perpetual Calendar will use its mechanical memory to mark the days taking into account the variations of days in each month, as well as leap years – this piece will need no intervention by the wearer until March 1st 2100, which will be a Secular year. Inside is the Carl F. Bucherer 1904 automatic calibre with 50 hours of power reserve, viewable through an exhibition caseback.
The wearing of a Carl F. Bucherer watch should be enough to ensure high esteem in a room full of watch aficionados, this one with its substantial complications should without doubt elevate the wearer to head honcho. Carl F. Bucherer watches are, after all reassuringly exclusive.
The Carl F. Bucherer Manero ChronoPerpetual will be a limited edition of 150 pieces with stainless steel case, 100 pieces with rose gold case and an additional 30 piece Stallion edition, shown above, which features a beautiful, but very manly hand-decorated calfskin strap.
That’s A Cool Graham You Have There, Graham.
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Graham Rahal joins the growing list of “Graham People” – quite an eclectic mix of individuals. Ross Brawn F1 maestro times his team to perfection with his Tourbillograph Trackmaster, Mike Tindall leaves his Swordfish in the locker before scrumming down with the England Rugby team, motorcycle roadracer Guy Martin can just about squeeze his Chronofighter beneath his racing leathers and can probably disassemble it too, Jay Kay grooves with his Chronofighter Classic Black and super chef Marco Pierre White? he will never overcook an egg as long as he’s wearing his rather dapper red gold and black Swordfish PVD Carbide.
Zenith Star Open Collection New For 2012
Zenith are back. It’s been a great year or two for the brand’s design department which has taken them back to their traditional values and classical styling. If you like the watches then you’ll know that we like them. After a superb collection of Pilot watches, here comes something for girly wrists – a new collection of Zenith Star Open models.
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If you've admired the Star Open collection in the past, perhaps you've appreciated it’s compendium of curves – rounded case, feminine pushers and curly, swirly graduating numerals. I featured one as a Valentine’s Day special, the Queen of Love Star Open – surely the most romantic chronograph available. The new pieces see a departure from the circular case to an equally voluptuous cushion-shaped case and with a nod to classical-ism some elongated Roman numerals – an instant make-over which creates a more formal and elegant variation.
Two dial editions are available, white mother-of-pearl or silvered guilloché, two case editions are available, stainless steel or rose gold – but these are trivialities, what is most important and what draws the eye is the heart-shaped cut-away where a seductive little heart counts the seconds and through which the escapement of the El Primero Calibre 4062 can be viewed.
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The case measures 37x37mm with sapphire crystal front and back, neat tucked-in pushers and tapering lugs. The hour and minutes hands are faceted and a central chronograph hand reaches right to the dial edge which features a fine railtrack chapter ring, an elegant detail echoed in the 30-min counter at three o’clock. Further dressing-up, if it were needed comes thanks to a perfect little cabochon sapphire-set crown. Those in the know will shun the sparkle and go for the stainless steel lesser-diamond version, serious kit and not in the slightest bit syrupy.
Zenith El Primero Espada – Sometimes Three Hands Are Enough….
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The Zenith El Primero Espada, released earlier this year ticks all the boxes – clean, classical, uncomplicated and quite frankly, gorgeous. The decider? Inside is the El Primero 4650B automatic movement, the non-chronograph variety, industriously vibrating at 36,000 vph. Read more about it here.
The Zenith Academy Minute Repeater
2012 – A fortuitous year for Zenith? I’ll say. Jean-Frédéric Dufour, the brand’s CEO has overseen a restructure which has brought them back into the limelight, back to their classical styling and traditional values and back in to favour with their customers.
This year’s splendid trio of Pilot watches were the darlings of the watch media, a new El Primero 1969 Chronograph was the perfect blend of retro and cutting edge and the new Star Open Collection for ladies, a cushion-shaped beauty, certainly caught my eye.
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So – how do you crown such a year? Zenith do it with a hat-trick of Masterpiece models to add to their Academy Grand Complications Collection, one of which we feature here, the Zenith Academy Minute Repeater.
A Minute Repeater is a notoriously tricky complication and its complexity would confound all but the most skilled and patient Master Watchmakers. Zenith bring to the bench a new patented mechanism – one track, three chimes, designed to ensure clarity, consistency of tone and perfect precision. Integrated into and working alongside the Minute Repeater is an automatic high precision chronograph – that’s a total of 461 micro engineering components packed into a 45mm case – superb.
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The El Primero 4043 movement is housed in the elegantly rounded Elite case, and wisely Zenith choose to construct it from 18 carat Rose Gold, warm and luxurious. Finishing is meticulous including a 22-carat gold oscillating weight embellished with Côtes de Genève decoration.
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Add a silver-toned guilloché dial, a little snailing on the counters, a combination of blued and gold hands and some slender elongated Roman Numerals and the result is unconditional and understated perfection. More if it were needed comes in the form of a look-see through to the tiny hammers on the dial between 2 and 4 o’clock.
The Zenith Academy Minute Repeater comes presented on a lined alligator strap with an 18 carat gold triple folding clasp.
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