LEDs shine a light on new creative paths

The emergence of LEDs has sent a lot of lighting designers back to the drawing board. This has levelled the playing field for Dana Cannam, the University of Alberta grad who came of age in the postincandescent era and for whom the drawing board is a spiritual home. For the past five years, Cannam, 34, has alternated woodworking with experimentation in LEDs, the brilliant, energy-efficient light sources that are set to transform the way we create and use light. It’s all led to the launch, at the Maison et Objet show in Paris the first week of September, of his First Light series for the contemporary British woodcrafter Another Country.