Annual Reports

Annual Report 2011/12 by Anish Kapoor

Shortlisted

The Zumtobel Group’s annual report for 2011/12 by Anish Kapoor has been shortlisted by the British Design Museum in the “Graphics” category of their Designs of the Year 2013. The shortlist has been published by the middle of January 2013.

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The well-known Indian-British artist Anish Kapoor agreed to develop the artistic design for the 21st annual report.

One of the determining factors for the 2011/12 financial year was the continuing shift to LED technology and intelligent lighting management. We are seeing important impulses, above all, from the growing focus on energy efficiency. However, LED technology also gives rise to entirely new perspectives for the quality of light. LED is the first light source with a threefold capability for change – in intensity, colour and beam spread.

Anish Kapoor has used the medium light to illustrate the power of colour and its effects on the observer, above all as the process of a very subtle change. Light and colour, perception and emotion are inseparably connected, and today we have reached a point where, thanks to innovative technologies, we can also use the effects of light, colour and change in artificial light for the benefit of people and the environment.