‘Smart’ surfaces—for a wide variety of definitions of ‘smart’—are a fast-growing trend integrating multiple technologies. Sensors, switches, and other bits of hardware are integrated into surface materials such as PVC; fabric, and leather. Screens; buttons, and tactile controls with sensors are being considered as a further way to create a better and more intuitive user experience. We take a close look in this week’s in-depth article, as a teaser of the smart-surfaces session planned for the upcoming DVN Interior Workshop in Köln on 25-26 April. Exhibition booths and lecture slots are filling up, so please confirm your participation before 16 February.
The DVN Workshop on lighting was last week in Paris, with great success and 350 attendees. Part of it presented interior lighting topics, and in this week’s DVN-I Newsletter we report on those topics. It shows again how light is important in a cabin, and confirms that on top of light’s design and decoration aspects, interior lighting plays an increasingly central role in providing and augmenting safety; comfort, and convenience. The upcoming DVN Interior Workshop has a substantial interior lighting session planned, which will go beyond what we’ve already presented here, so stay tuned!
Meanwhile, in the Coffee Corner, DVN Interior Designer Athanassios Tubidis picks up where last week’s article on eco-friendly interiors left off, with his ideas about leather alternatives.
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