Daniel Rybakken’s Daylight Comes Sideways Animated LED Ambient Wall Light [Offers A New Dawn]

It’s been a while since we featured any form of lighting here on TFTS but the moment we came across this fascinating concept from Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken, known simply as ‘Daylight Comes Sideways’, which uses a series of dimmable LEDs to not only create false daylight (an artificial window if you will) but that also ads artificial shadows allowing for animated details, such as a cloud passing by or a tree swaying in the wind, we just knew we had to feature it here.

Daniel Rybakken’s Daylight Comes Sideways consists of a semitransparent, acrylic screen beneath which an array of LEDs are controlled dynamically to produce light and shadow – thus allowing this novel and extremely cool wall light to show animated details that appear blurred in a somewhat tantalising, and no doubt especially captivating, fashion through the screen.

Purportedly capable of working via a timer, allowing to you be gradually woken by the gradual dawning of artificial sunlight or slowly eased to sleep as the LEDs gradually fade away (mimicking a false dusk) we have no idea as to whether this concept will ever see the light of day (excuse the all to deliberate pun) but there’s no doubt that Daniel Rybakken’s Daylight Comes Sideways would be warmly welcomed by those suffering from Seasonally Adjusted Depression (SAD) as well as those, like us, who know that such a light would see us positively transfixed for hours on end.

Daniel Rybakken