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Thursday 1 June 2017

Justin Olesinski – The fusion between Technology and Design

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At number 15 Pulteney Bridge in Bath and we spoke with Justin Olesinski; a world renowned designer, particularly in the relation of fusion between Technology and Design within the Superyacht Industry.

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Here is a little snippet of the interview:

Jack: I think when we were talking earlier in the year and I did a little bit of an interview feature with IdeaWorks at METS again, and we were talking there of two very interesting things which were the circadian light which is recreating these natural rhythms, the natural light that used to exist, but they were also very focused, as I know for example David Milner of Veritas was, on very simple, you know, I’m having a party, I’m relaxing, or romantic or whatever you want the mood to be, I want simple controls, one touch and all the lighting changes.

Justin: That bit’s really important, and also you could, I think sometimes lighting companies like to sell as much as their gear as they can I think sometimes less is more, so you could be very subtle in one way, you can maybe, instead of lighting it up every deck as a layer cake, you can have it so you’ve just got this very simple idea of having one key light that is incredibly recognisable.

Jack: I think as well if we go back to the beginning of the previous project we were talking about, It’s been a reversal of things, because you’re starting with the lights, you’re not coming in at the last minute.

Justin: No, so, I think this all came from, when I was in Monaco a couple of years ago it was in the evening and we were in one of the restaurants overlooking the harbour, and it was at a boat show, so it had, you can see probably fifty superyachts, it was amazing to see that half of them didn’t have any lighting on, when people weren’t on board, then there was fifty percent that did have lighting and twenty-five of that was pretty poor. Just spotlights that you could get anywhere that had been around for thirty years but there were a few boats that had the lighting running just right, now they stood out from the whole marina, and in the daytime most boats look white, but at night it’s when you can really change things you can draw lots of attention, and again you can be very individual at night whereas in the daytime you’ve got to be so much like The superyacht A or something, to stand out from the crowd.

Read the full interview here in our Digital Magazine