Orbita Luminaire by Ignacio M. Todeschini and Ignacio Noel is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Golden A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.
GoldLighting· 2025
Orbita Luminaire
by Ignacio M. Todeschini and Ignacio Noel
Client: IWish
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category
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About Orbita Luminaire
Orbita reimagines light as a dynamic, ever-evolving presence, where celestial cycles meet cutting-edge technology. With its patented ultra-matte material and infinite rotation system, it invites tactile interaction and personalization, adapting seamlessly to different moments and spaces. Minimalist yet expressive, it transforms illumination into an experience, forging a timeless connection between innovation, design, and human perception. Designed in Argentina, crafted with Italian materials and precision engineering.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Orbita Luminaire is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Orbita Luminaire is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Orbita Luminaire creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main principle behind Órbita is the reinterpretation of celestial motion through an interactive lighting piece. Inspired by the rhythm and precision of planetary orbits, the design invites users to engage with the luminaire, altering its position and intensity to reflect personal atmospheres.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
My focus was to create a high-end lighting piece that balances aesthetics and interaction. I aimed to design an object that not only illuminates but also evokes a contemplative experience—an object that is timeless, poetic, and technically precise.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
We are refining the technical details to begin industrial production. The goal is to place Órbita in international showrooms and design galleries, while also exploring limited editions for collectors and architectural projects.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to celestial-inspired lighting in Orbita Luminaire has earned you the Gold A' Design Award - could you share the journey from initial concept to achieving this harmonious blend of astronomical movement and illumination?
When we began developing Orbita, our primary goal—together with the design team—was to allow users to personalize the lighting throughout the day, in sync with the sun’s circadian rhythm. This idea became the conceptual foundation for the luminaire, and every design decision followed from it.The notion of the cycle and the circle led us to envision a screen that orbits around a center, enabling directional lighting based on different uses. The morphological relationship between the elliptical screen and the circular core resulted in a visual system subtly evoking the orbital motion of celestial bodies.
The patented ultra-matte material in Orbita Luminaire features remarkable properties like self-regeneration and fingerprint resistance - what challenges did you face in adapting this primarily kitchen-counter material for lighting applications?
Bringing Fenix NTM into the world of lighting design was a significant challenge from the start. One of the material’s key features is its ultra-matte, anti-glare finish—qualities that seem at odds with how luminaires typically work through light reflection.However, we saw this as an opportunity. We harnessed the material’s unique properties to create a soft, indirect glow. Additionally, its surface allows for direct user interaction without leaving fingerprints—something nearly impossible with other materials. This synergy of technical innovation and user experience led to a completely new approach in the lighting field.
How does Orbita Luminaire's infinite rotation system transform the traditional relationship between users and lighting fixtures, particularly in terms of personalization and circadian rhythm adaptation?
Traditionally, interaction with a luminaire is limited to switching it on or off, dimming the light, or using smart apps to adjust tone and color. With Orbita, we wanted to go beyond digital control.Its infinite rotation system invites physical and tactile interaction—users can manually orient the light for direct or indirect effects. Whether illuminating a ceiling softly or focusing on a dining table, the user shapes the atmosphere with a simple gesture.What truly sets Orbita apart is this tactile relationship—melding technology with human touch. It’s not just about managing light from a phone, but forming a more intuitive and personal connection with the fixture.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Orbita merges a patented ultra-matte material with infinite rotation. It redefines light through minimalism, tactile interaction, and personalization: orbiting innovation and timeless design. The core of the project was to allow the user to be part of the transformation of light. Incorporating an innovative infinite rotation system that allows for light customization at different times of the day and across various usage scenarios. Argentine design, with materials and machinery made in Italy.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Each component is designed and manufactured in Argentina using 95% patented Italian anti-glare material, featuring heat-activated scratch self-regeneration, fingerprint resistance, and an ultra-soft touch. This material is composed of 70% paper, advanced acrylic resins, and proprietary technologies, treated with electron beam curing for enhanced color stability and durability.
Dimensions
Diameter: 250 mm
Length: 1250 mm
Screen thickness: 1.8 mm
Central ring thickness: 20 mm - Tags
- Orbita, industrial design, lighting, timeless, Ignacio Noel, circadian lighting, minimalism, tactile interaction, innovation, Ignacio Martinez Todeschini, Argentine manufacturing, international market.
- Production Technology
- CNC machining using made-in-Italy equipment for the central ring and screen contour. The central pieces are made entirely from production leftovers of kitchen countertops. The indirect light screen undergoes steam bending and a pressure system utilizing a specially developed mold for this product. Laser cutting is used for the aluminum infinite rail, along with a rotating contact piece that moves along it. Laser cutting is also applied to opal acrylic for the anti-glare diffuser. Both the screen bending and the assembly process are done manually, ensuring perfect material integration and optimal connectivity between parts. More than 25 distinct components, specifically designed and manufactured for this lamp, are used in its construction.
- Design Challenge
- Achieving Orbita in Argentina was the most challenging part of this design project. FENIX, a material very new in the country, has few suppliers with the expertise to work with it. Additionally, the national market is not inclined to invest in high-end products, making Orbita a strong commitment to the international market. Adapting this innovative material, primarily developed for other applications, to a lighting product was a huge but exciting challenge.
- Research
- For Orbita's development, exploratory research was conducted, analyzing astronomy, orbital movements, and light-form interaction. Advanced materials were studied, focusing on ultra-matte surfaces and circadian lighting technologies.
Through descriptive research, material properties and manufacturing processes were assessed, determining that CNC machining and steam bending would ensure precision and fluidity. This approach allowed integrating technological innovation with a minimalist and tactile aesthetic. - Inspiration
- Inspired by celestial cycles, orbital movements, and the sun's circadian rhythm. An opportunity to enhance the user's quality of life was identified by allowing them to customize their lighting according to different times of the day and specific uses. The high-tech material, with its unique technical properties, presented both a challenge and a strong source of inspiration. The pursuit of highlighting the material's attributes became an intrinsic part of the design process.
- Project Duration
- The project began in December 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was completed in February 2025 in the same city, prior to being exhibited at SaloneSatellite, Salone del Mobile Milano, and various locations during Milan Design Week.
- Operation Flow
- The object is designed for manual adjustment, allowing the user to interact with and direct the light as desired. One hand grips the central ring to stabilize the fixture, while the other adjusts the shade, creating rotation. The primary lighting effect is indirect illumination.
- Patents
- Trademark No. 4455247. INPI. 2025. Argentina. Ignacio Martin Noel 100%
- Team Members
- Ignacio Martinez Todeschini
Ignacio Noel - Image Credits
- Photographer: Anabella Castro
Illustrations: Ignacio Martinez Todeschini
Video rendering: Federico Chama
Video: Anabella Castro
Industrial designer: Ignacio Martinez Todeschini
Design director: Ignacio Noel
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