LIGHT UPON LIGHT - International Student Lighting Design Competition

Light Upon Light – International Student Lighting Design Competition

We are proud and excited to officially announce the launch of the 3rd Round of the “LIGHT UPON LIGHT – International Student Lighting Design Competition” — a global platform dedicated to celebrating creativity, innovation, and the transformative power of light in architecture and design.

After two successful editions that attracted outstanding projects from students across the world, this new round comes with even greater ambition, impact, and global reach. The competition continues to bring together emerging talents, universities, and design schools from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds, creating a unique international dialogue around lighting design.

🌍 An International Jury of Excellence
This edition will again be evaluated by a distinguished international jury panel composed of renowned academics, lighting designers, creative professionals, and industry leaders, ensuring a rigorous, inspiring, and globally recognized evaluation process.

🏆 Past Winners
On our website, we proudly celebrate the achievements of our previous winners whose visionary projects demonstrated originality, technical excellence, and conceptual depth. Their success reflects the competition’s mission to highlight pioneering student work and push the boundaries of lighting design thinking.

💡 Awards & Global Recognition
With significant awards (total of $14,000) and international exposure, “LIGHT UPON LIGHT” continues to empower students and emerging designers, and to encourage them to explore light not only as a technical tool but as a cultural, spatial, and emotional medium within architecture and the built environment.

We are truly excited and optimistic to receive a new wave of inspiring submissions from students and universities worldwide. We believe this edition will further expand the competition’s global footprint and showcase the next generation of lighting design leaders. We warmly invite architecture, design, and lighting students across the globe to participate and share their visionary ideas.

Let your creativity shine....
Let your ideas speak....
Let your light inspire the world.....

Learn more & register here:
👉 https://www.lightuponlightcompetition.com/

Individual posts for (People Vote Certificate):

Again this (PEOPLE VOTE Certificate) is totally separate from the Jury's decision. The Jury’s decision has been already taken. This is an added certificate to enable the finalists to share their creative works with the world. The votes will be counted on the FIRST IMAGE of each project and the winners will be announced with the official winners’ announcement on August 12th, 2022.

Category (2)
• Project (CS-2021-CAT02-1168) THE SAMARAA CHANDELIER
By: Mohamed Ebrahim, Mostafa Mahmoud, Abdalrahman Mohamed,
Mohamed Adel

• Lighting design approach:
“The design idea stems from the abstraction of one of the famous landmarks, the mosque of Samarra or the great mosque in Iraq, which is one of the most important islamic monuments. It contains a minaret, which is the most famous Islamic minarets because of its distinctive and unique architectural form, which was built in a spiral shape. The Unit is characterized by a spiral shape inspired by the shape of the minaret in the Samarra Mosque. The Lighting of the chandelier is characterized by calm colors, including white and warm and specifically for the intensity of illumination, a number of lamps were used to suffice for a large space, such as large and spacious halls with 10 bulbs in total.
The materials of the outer body of the chandelier are characterized by durability and hardness. They are chrome, copper and aluminum; all of them are polished to give luster with the reflection of light on it. Aluminum plays a key role in improving efficiency, reducing global energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as improving product lifespan and reducing demand for natural resources. The use of the Islamic pattern as an expression of the Islamic spirit in the form and unit of illumination which is an overlapping of geometric shapes with each other.”

Individual posts for (People Vote Certificate):

Again this (PEOPLE VOTE Certificate) is totally separate from the Jury's decision. The Jury’s decision has been already taken. This is an added certificate to enable the finalists to share their creative works with the world. The votes will be counted on the FIRST IMAGE of each project and the winners will be announced with the official winners’ announcement on August 12th, 2022.

Category (2)
• Project (ED-2020-CAT02-1229) NOOR PENDANT LIGHT
By: Aditi KY, Anas Abdul Latheef

• Lighting design approach:
“The Noor pendant light is inspired from Islamic geometry and shapes, the curved leaf like embodiment symbolizes the mathematically derived patterns which have been intensively used in the Islamic architecture.”

The Luminaire has 3 source of light, a larger globe enveloped between the diffuser, medium sized globe which peaks of out the organic envelop and third source that is the up lighter that showcases the fluted curved glass diffuser that forms light and shadows of the light itself on to the ceiling. Metal is a versatile material, it makes the luminaire look sleek and lighter. The metal body houses the bent/ curved fluted glass or it is wrapped with banana fibre paper. The light from the lamp is passed through the fluted glass diffuser to create patterns of light and shadow on the ceiling. Here fluted curved glass or the banana fibre paper is used to create the play of light and shadows on to the ceiling.

Individual posts for (People Vote Certificate):

Again this (PEOPLE VOTE Certificate) is totally separate from the Jury's decision. The Jury’s decision has been already taken. This is an added certificate to enable the finalists to share their creative works with the world. The votes will be counted on the FIRST IMAGE of each project and the winners will be announced with the official winners’ announcement on August 12th, 2022.

Category (2)
• Project (CS-2021-CAT02-1214) DOA IMON
By: Pimpisuth Apaipim, Kanthida Koosuwan, Korapak Prairungruang
• Lighting design approach:
“PENDANT FOR THE EARTH AND EVERYONE: (DOA IMON) is affordable for every Muslim family with the commercially viable and low priced material, aluminium. Owning to almost endlessly recyclable ability of main material, this aluminum pendant makes it sustainable and environmentally friendly.”

TRANSFORMING AN EMPTY SPACE INTO A SACRED MOSQUE

The shadow effect, created by the pattern of (DOA IMON) on a ceiling represents the ornamental and decorative pattern in the mosque. Located in a prayer Room or one's house, the pendant creates the spiritual and religious space, which seems like the mosque atmosphere. DOA IMON fulfills the empty room only with its shadow effect but builds up the great impact in the space.
GEOMETRY - 2D FORM TO 3D FORM
The 5 pillars of Islam is modified to the simple geometry, pentagon. Each pillar stands for each corner of the pentagon. The 2d pentagons assemble into the 3d form, creating the outer frame of the pendant.

SUB ELEMENT

Linear Shape Simplified from Du'a Hand Gesture, both Hands Siding to the Sky. Du'a linear shapes are placed, reflected and rotated one by one, aligning to each side of the pentagon. All sub elements form the shadow effect, resembling the centralized Islamic pattern.