Women in Lighting: It is quite surprising to see that even today many interviews happening around and not just in the design industry, feels the need to ask the fundamentally same question with a different undertone to a woman. Maybe, it has been this way since ages. Talking specifically about Lighting Design, google Lighting Designers and you will be surprised to see the Wikipedia ‘List of Lighting Designers’ showing 58 lighting designers in total, out of which women lighting designers mentioned are only 9! Wikipedia sure needs some editing to be done.
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Before the quarantine of course, I used to take the train from the Tokyo station every day, go to university by Tokyo tower, work part-time at a restaurant across Kabukiza, and enjoy the food around Asakusa, where famous temple is, and enjoy driving the Rainbow Bridge and on the weekend. When I think of famous tourist attractions in Japan, it is no exaggeration to say that more than ninety percent of light-ups are designed by Motoko Ishii. My favorite design is the one for Kabukiza, the theatre for the traditional kabuki drama form. The white surface is illuminated by white lights. It is simple as that. However, what is amazing is that there are three kinds of white and it changes according to the four seasons we have in Japan. Warm white is used in the winter, cool white is used in the summer, and the white in between is used in the spring and the autumn. Motoko has a great sense of delicate beauty that Japanese culture admires.
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