This story was originally published in Architectural Lighting.
For companies that produce products for architecture and lighting, design and business often come together in unique ways. For the past 26 years, the Zumtobel Group—parent company of six international lighting brands including Zumtobel, acdc, and Thorn—has partnered with architects and designers in the creation of its yearly business communiqué. For its 2016/17 Annual Report, the company selected Yung Ho Chang, an American-Chinese architect and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has developed a character called “The Little Detective,” based on a story told to him as a child by his father. Using drawings, paintings, and photographs he produced between 1998 and 2016, Chang tells a tale of the Little Detective searching for a lost book and encountering “the opposing forces of light and darkness.”
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