During Seoul's recent edition of its annual Living Design Fair, Cell showcased their Lighting Kaleidoscape, a ‘media effect box’ made using the company’s LED Boky3 panels.

As if to prove its credentials as 2010’s World Design Capital, Seoul’s recent edition of its annual Living Design Fair showcased an array of inspirational installations by Korea’s foremost design names, such as Bae Dae Yong, Choi Si Yuong, Jeon Shi Hyoung and Youngse Kim. While many of these favoured the kind of traditional and contemplative simplicity usually referred to as ‘Zen-like’, a more technological approach was taken by Cell International’s design team for its Lighting Kaleidoscope, a ‘media effect box’ made using the company’s LED Boky3 panels. Composed of square pixels that create abstract moving images and generate a range of no fewer than 16,700,000 colours (although we’re not sure how they counted them), the panels interact with people, changing hue and shape in response to variations in sound and movement. The result? Pure psychedelic geewhizzery that visitors found compulsive.

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