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Designer Clothing After receiving more than 200 submissions, Women in Lighting and its panel of judges has selected the five winning entries for its T-shirt design competition. Sharon Stammers tells us more.
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here has been a massive rise in
messages, and to achieve this we launched a
Lumenarch in New York. We also - shock
Whether its #LetThereBeLight,
originally designed to be a basic
lighting designer and cofounder of Lighting
inspirational light images, or our very own
world’s most ubiquitous fashion item has
Luxemozione in Italy.
1000 people gathered to share knowledge,
are a great barometer of social change. They
is fundamentally about equality and working
online collaborative activities. flooding Linkedin with
[d]arc room livestream, where more than
there is no doubt that the fact that we can no longer physically come together means we
T-shirt design competition. The T-shirt was undergarment. But over the years, the
become a powerful political weapon. T-shirts can shock, outrage, unite and challenge the
status quo. They can also help to disseminate
horror - asked a man: Giacomo Rossi,
Design Team and light blogger/founder of
We asked a man because Women in Lighting side by side, and to this end are delighted to see many entries in the competition from
are looking for ways to participate in virtual
messages around the world.
male WiL supporters.
wider community.
their creativity and create a special WiL
the judges are seen here. They are from
community, light uplifts us, light inspires us
community. Using the themes of equality,
Damon, Alex Bourganou, Hannah Moore and
initiatives and to feel like we belong to a
We can see through these initiatives that as a
We asked the WiL community to express T-shirt that shared the values of our
The five winning designs selected by
designers Rolands Popenkovs, Michela
and light can bring us together.
empowerment, inspiration and light, we
Giorgia Rossi.
series of mini-interviews on the WiL website
competition. More than 200 of you did and
T-shirts and housed on our very own WiL
After the success of the WiL in Lockdown
- which helped WiL and WiL supporters feel a sense of solidarity with others around the
invited people to submit a design for this
all entries can be seen on the website - there is a truly international spread with designs
These designs will be made into actual
T-shirt shop. Alongside these winners is a ‘wildcard’ winner chosen via social media
world, we launched a new idea. This one was
from 37 countries and a mixture of hand
that will join them on the website after
seen a lot. Be it Covid scariness, positive
messages.
choose from in total.
based upon messaging - of which 2020 has
neighbourly encouragement or serious Black
Lives Matter messaging, it’s incredible to see the power of a phrase or single image and how it can enable global solidarity.
Women in Lighting wanted to join in this
global phenomena by sharing our positive
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and digitally drawn images and graphic
We selected three judges to help us narrow it down to a winning five. We asked world
renowned light artist and queen of colour Liz
West from the UK, Yishan Zhuang, upcoming lighting designer and visual artist -
originally from Beijing but now based at
voting finishes so there will be six designs to Giacomo Rossi said of the competition: “The WiL T-shirt design competition represents an outstanding opportunity to share and disseminate the concept of equality and
emancipation, the basis of the Women in Lighting project. We received numerous
