Noly

The best of two worlds – Danish design and technology are joined in a new lighting fixture

Lyhne Design and Nordic Power Converters (NPC) have joined forces to create a new outdoor streetlight fixture, which is an example of Danish minimalistic design and innovative technology. The name NOLY is a combination of the Danish words Nordisk (Nordic) and Lys (Light).

Design

The design is based on NPC’s compact and ultra slim LED driver, and the request from NPC to Lyhne Design was to design a fixture, which utilized the size factor of NPC’s cutting-edge driver. NOLY is thus very flat, but has a relatively large light surface in order to avoid glare. Technology actually allows us to design small fixtures, however, this would not be very interesting aesthetics wise. Our traditional perception of light is that light comes from a round source (e.g. the sun and the moon), so this is what people will instinctively prefer. In addition, an outdoor luminaire should have some size in order to be seen as part of the landscape. There are two other interesting design features worth mentioning. One is the fact that the glass has been pulled down below the housing so that the edge of the glass is visible from the side and thus serves as a natural light guide, which shows the course of the road. The other is the fact that we have designed two mounting brackets, one for vertical and one for horizontal mounting.