Lichtfaktor: The Pioneers of Light Graffiti

Lichtfaktor is a Cologne-based group that got its start in late 2006 when Marcel Panne, David Lüpschen and Tim Fehske gathered together to experiment with light.Since then the German group’s signature brand of light graffiti, or “light writing,” has transformed simple street science into a lucrative new genre of illuminative art, with major companies such as Absolut Vodka, Mark Ecko, Audi, Philips and PlayStation, paying Lichtfaktor to create innovative Ads for them.

Here is a collection of their creative art works that I found on their flickr page and Youtube:

Star Wars Vs. Star Trek:

These pictures are from a short movie they made for British movie service Sky Movies featuring elements from the Star Wars and Star Trek.The video has drawn more than 800,000 views on YouTube since its completion in July 2007.

Forest:

These lightwriting pictures are the first one Lichtfaktor has done in the nature. They did them in the forests of the “high fens” in Belgium to promote Philips new HDTV.

Abstracts

Energy Motion

Current

These pictures are from their lightwriting video that was produced for Current TV in London.

Stuff

More Lichtfaktor Resources :

• Lichtfaktor profile on Myspace
  
• Lichtfaktor on Flickr
• Wired Magazine article about Lichtfaktor
• Colourlovers interview with Lichtfaktor