The Lighting Cube of Heesu (김희수), a Master Graduate of Color Lab is published in a Archives of Design Research (디자인학연구). The article is entitled as “Lighting Cube: Development and Validation of a Physical Design (조명 큐브를 활용한 조명색과 제품색 사이의 심미적 조화 탐구)”. As a part of Heesu’s Master Thesis, the article presents how lighting designers examine the aethetic interaction of reflected color and light source using a physical module. The cubic module is versatile to quickly simulate products such as home appliances, especially because users can wrap the cube by simply cutting and folding the paper. Small though, the cube can demonstrate various design cases that uses lighting for both functional and aesthetic purposes. The article illustrates how the cube was developed and provides empirical evidence of visual assessments using the Lighting Cube.

Heesu Kim (김희수), a Master’s graduate of Color Lab, has published a new article in Archives of Design Research (디자인학연구). The paper is titled “Lighting Cube: Development and Validation of a Physical Design Research Instrument for Lighting–Product Color Harmony” (조명 큐브를 활용한 조명색과 제품색 사이의 심미적 조화 탐구).

Based on Heesu’s Master’s thesis, the paper introduces a simple tool for studying how light color and product color work together. The Lighting Cube is a small physical module that lets designers test this interaction directly, instead of relying on designers’ subjective or intuitive judgments.

The cube can quickly simulate products like home appliances — users just cut and fold paper to wrap it in different CMF(color, material, and finishing). Small as it is, the cube can model many real design cases where lighting serves both function and aesthetics. The paper explains how the cube was built and shows evidence from visual assessments confirming that it works.

Full paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.15187/adr.2026.08.39.3.213