January 8, 2025
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Architectural Products Magazine select Fluxwerx luminaires as winners in Lighting category
View Mini and Lines Onwall earn top honors from international product design competitions
Fluxwerx luminaires have once more received prestigious recognition, securing both the GOOD DESIGN® Product Design Award and Architectural Products' Magazine's Product Innovation Award (PIA)—renowned accolades celebrating excellence in design and innovation. Tested and assessed by juries of international designers, both luminaires were awarded the sought-after prizes for highest design quality in the Lighting category.
The Product Innovation Awards (PIA) by Architectural Products Magazine recognize outstanding product innovation specifically tailored to the needs of the architecture and design community. Celebrating the development of creative, high-performing products that enhance building design and functionality, the evaluation focuses on innovation, performance, sustainability, and overall contribution to advancing architectural design.
Now in its 74th year, Good Design® is one of the world's most prestigious, recognised, and oldest Design Awards programs organised annually by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. In 2024, several thousand designers and visionary companies from over 55 countries entered the competition. The jurors reviewed over 1,200 entries in order to assess not just the aesthetic merit of each entry, but materials selected, the level of craftsmanship, the surface structure, ergonomics, innovation, sustainability, and functionality.
Winning GOOD DESIGN is a testament to the commitment of designers and manufacturers to create intuitive and easy-to-use products and bold and new innovative solutions for product design. In keeping with the same spirit of Saarinen and Eames, the 2024 GOOD DESIGN winners overall have set an ever higher, bold standard for sustainability with an extraordinary design sense that is increasingly sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and contemporary.
- Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, chief curator of Good Design
Both View Mini and Lines Onwall are also recipients of the International Living Future Institute Declared labels.
The Winning Products
VIEW MINI
Recipient of GOOD DESIGN® Product Design Award
A re-scaled form of the minimalist architectural aesthetic of the original View suspended luminaire series that is achieved through continued advancement in optics technology, View Mini blends seamlessly with architecture.
With a form only 3.5" in height, View Mini offers exceptional performance for general ambient illumination applications. Appearing like a floating fenestration that remains transparent even when illuminated, the luminaire's Anidolic-Extraction optical technology provides precisely controlled distributions with no view of the source, delivering exceptional visual comfort and wide on-centre spacing of up to 15ft on centre, 35 fc at 0.4 W/ft2.
With no electrical connections at fixture joints required, View Mini can be installed as an independent pendant or as a continuous lighting system with virtually seamless runs. A choice of various output and distribution options allows View Mini to be used as a lighting solution in various environments and conditions. In addition, View Mini is also available with an independent up-down lighting control option that provides fully dimmable or switchable independent control of the upper and lower hemispherical distributions.
LINES ONWALL
Recipient of The Product Innovation Award by Architectural Products Magazine
Minimalist and miniscule at only 3" high and less than a finger-width wide, Lines Onwall is a divergent and diminutive suspended luminaire system that offers unprecedented design flexibility. The convergence of the Lines Onwall proprietary ultra narrow optics with miniscule aesthetic and diminutive architectural form delivers exemplary performance and visual comfort. Precise control and extraction features shape the light into high performance distributions with efficacies exceeding 125 lm/w.
Designed for use as discrete Wall elements or continuous elements, Lines Onwall delivers unprecedented design flexibility. Available in 1', 2', 3', 4', 6', and 8' section lengths, this diminutive luminaire allows for a seamless integration of wall to linear with 1, 2, 3 and 4-way intersecting pivots and 1, 2 and 3-way wall mounts with flexible adjustability from 60 degrees.
About Fluxwerx:
Fluxwerx is a manufacturer of innovative, high-performance, LED luminaires for the general lighting of commercial and institutional spaces, such as office, education and healthcare. Founded in 2011, Fluxwerx has quickly established itself at the forefront of LED lighting technology, with a distinctive product offering and breakthrough proprietary anidolic optics technology that offers substantial energy savings, lighting quality, and remarkable lifetime. Follow Fluxwerx on Twitter, Instagram , Pinterest & LinkedIn
About Product Innovation Award (PIA):
Construction Business Media, headquartered in Chicago, IL is publisher of Architectural Products and Architectural SSL magazines. The company also co-owns and operates TheContinuingArchitect.com educational platform, and maintains websites and electronic extensions of its print publications.
With judging and evaluation of products and systems from a distinguished panel of designers and lighting specialists skilled in product evaluation, the PIA program awards manufacturers based on attributes, qualities, functionality and/or performance beyond industry standards.
Fluxwerx has previously also won a Product Innovation Award for Fold, View, Loop, Rails, Portal, Lines Suspended, Hyphen, and Aperture luminaires.
About GOOD DESIGN award:
The GOOD DESIGN Awards are one of the most prestigious global award programs for design excellence and design innovation, honouring both products and industry leaders in design and manufacturing for over seven decades since its inception. Each year, the organisation highlights the most innovative industrial, product and graphic designs. Founded in Chicago in 1950 by the former MoMA curator Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., together with such pioneers in modern design as Charles and Ray Eames, Russel Wright, George Nelson, and Eero Saarinen, the awards are produced by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.
Fluxwerx has previously also won a Good Design award for Fold, Inbox, Loop, Aperture, Hyphen, Lines Suspended, Profile Mini Frame, Portal, Rails, Profile Mini, and Notch luminaires.