John Dunn

We hear a lot from students who want to incorporate fibre optics in some fashion or art project. Occasionally one of these strikes us as particularly interestesting and worth sharing with a wider audience. Such was this project in the Spring of 2009 by Lucinda Orrell, a student at the University of Western England in […]

One of our standard Orion kits, with 120 mixed 0.75mm and 1mm optical fibres was used to create this effect around the shower head in a wet room in Malvern, Worcs. The halogen light source is safely located in the attic above, well away from the water, and since there is no electricity in the

Here is a simple, but nicely executed, star field panel set above a row of back-washers at KW Hairdressing in Heaton, Bolton. After some discussion with Starscape, installer DH decided to put fibre optic stars in a high-gloss black Foamalux panel. The Foamalux is a fire-rated foamed pvc product which is relatively light and very

Starscape was contacted by artist Irene Rogan for advice and components for an artistic commission that she was working on. It is an interactive “light sculpture” inspired by photos of the ‘Veil Nebula’ – a large, relatively faint supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus. The source supernova exploded some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago. This

When Port Talbot-based firm Blackbox-AV Ltd was commissioned to create an interactive display panel for the new Lizard Lighthouse Heritage Centre on the Cornish coast, the company approached Starscape to discuss using fibre optics in the project. The result is the panel below in which hundreds of individual fibre end points create the glowing dots to indicate Trinity House’s

Many, if not most, of our fibre optic star kits end up in bedrooms and bathrooms, where the fibres have been installed from the attic above, with the light source sitting in the attic above the centre of the star field. However, this isn’t always possible: in a ground floor room, in a block of

Here’s an example of a simple concept that has been well executed. As part of a project for Glasgow’s Bunker Bar restaurant Robin Fox Planning and Design devised an enhanced lighting scheme for a below street level external passageway. This included fibre optic star points in the granite setts of the paved passageway. More often than

It’s always very rewarding to see our fibre optic products used imaginatively and to very good effect, so we are particularly pleased to have been associated with a project by Parc Signs of St. Austell in Cornwall.  The company had been commissioned to produce an interactive model to illustrate aspects of Cornwall’s mining heritage, and believed that

When artist Michael Bucknell was commissioned to design a chandelier themed on artefacts associated with Sherlock Holmes, he decided that the best way of creating a glow in the bowls of a number of pipes at the end of arms in the chandelier was to use optical fibre. An obvious advantage was that the eight pipes could

A repeat order from one of our customers prompted us to ask for photos of what had been done with the initial batch of fibres that we had sold them, and they were kind enough to respond with this selection of Images. Antenociti’s Workshop specialises in creating high quality scenery for wargaming enthusiasts. Science fiction