DMTV Milkshake: Ian Yang on Making Gorgeous Lighting at a Reasonable Price
Ian Yang, founder of lighting manufacturer Gantri, shares more on how the brand makes great lighting designs more accessible and more sustainable.
A truly beautiful piece of lighting can transform a room ? and often costs more than we might think at first (well-lit) glance. Ian Yang, CEO and founder of Gantri, understands that push (toward great lighting) and pull (away from $1800 lamps). But Yang has long investigated the space between impulses: His education took him to the London School of Economics, but also revered art school Central Saint Martins. As a kid in China, he toured factories with his parents, who has a global logistics firm ? and when he moved to San Francisco, he joined TechShop, a maker space fueled by a community fluent in the next-wave manufacturing processes like 3D printing. The result of all those influences is Gantri: ?At Gantri, we?re rethinking how lighting is designed, made, and sold using 3D printing,? he says, in this week?s Milkshake. ?We?re supporting independent designers and studios ? and making great lighting designs more accessible and more sustainable.?
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Gantri partners with designers around the world ? like Oakland?s Prowl Studio, Felix Pöttinger in Munich, Heitor Lobo Campos in Brasilia, and former Milkshake star Bradley L. Bowers in New Orleans ? to create th...
