John Dunn

This interesting project, by our customer Mick W of Essex, is notable for two reasons. Firstly, with 450 stars it’s considerably larger in scope than most residential installations, and secondly, it has not one, but three halogen light sources. Starscape’s standard halogen light source has sufficient physical capacity to accommodate all 450 fibres, but Mick […]

This is a project which demonstrates a technique which has great potential in the bathroom and kitchen, but which isn’t particularly difficult to implement. Customer Projects 27 and 41 demonstrate how optical fibres can be installed so as to create bright “stars” in the grout between wall or floor tiles, but this latest project has

This could hardly be any simpler – it is just a very large harness of optical fibres illuminated by one of our powerful 150 watt metal halide light sources. The concept by The Game Changer (Marketing) Ltd, was on behalf of a well-known client which makes major use of optical fibre in its telecoms business.

Here’s a very nice project which shows just well fibre optics work in distributing lighting. Hundreds of individual light points are dotted around this fine model by enthusiast Bill Campbell. In all, there is getting on for 1500 metres of 0.75mm fibre in the display. Bill had already bought 500 metres of fibre when he

This is a variation on the typical deck lighting project, using stainless steel fittings around the perimeter of the deck, rather than the more commonly used approach of bare fibre ends scattered across the surface. The halogen light source was installed in one of our plastic weatherproof enclosures on the external wall of the house,

Starscape was approached by artist Christine Morrison who was interested in using edge lit acrylic to create a piece of art which illustrated the changing patterns of daylight throughout the course of a year. The design is simple, but attractive, with 52 parallel lines of varying length and thickness. The optical properties of the cast

Here’s a nice and very neatly executed bathroom floor tile lighting project by Quicksilver Contracts on Tyneside. The company’s commercial director Andy Ward was kind enough to come back to us with some details about the project, and these photos. “All in all, if I remember correctly, there are about 400 metres of fibre,” says

Most of the fibre optics that we sell end up in ceilings, but fibre optic lighting can also be used to good effect on the walls, as in this interesting project by artist Val Cansick. Val is in demand as a designer of customised bedroom decor for children, and recently produced this scheme which is

This was one of those downstairs projects, where access above the ceiling to install the fibres wasn’t possible, so our customer Julie M opted for the prefabricated panel approach (see also Project 2, Customer Project 3, Customer Project 20, Customer Project 35 and Customer Project 38).  “We first saw a fibre optic lighting on a cruise and in building a new

Starscape was approached by the London Basement Company, who had been asked to install a fibre optic star ceiling above the swimming pool in a prestigious project in London. The London Basement Company, as its name suggests, specialises in converting basements in existing buildings, or even creating a basement from scratch so as to add valuable