Spotlight On IA Smart Light – LED Immersion Tech Art Panels by Farah Barnes

Suzy — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:17 +0000

Transform a space in your home with artwork that lights up and doubles as a lighting fixture!

IllumiArts LLC (formerly known as Illumi Arts) is an innovative company that creates LED artwork, founded by Farah Barnes. After 10 years of innovation, IA Smart Light is finally here. It’s a patented fusion of light, sound, color, and reflection—all brought together in one beautifully responsive canvas. With addressable RGB LEDs for pixel-level control, IA instantly transforms your space with immersive, dynamic effects.

The latest IA Smart is powered by cutting-edge Addressable RGB LED strip lights. Each light is individually controllable for smooth transitions, color mixing, and stunning visual effects. The LED artwork connects via WiFi—just scan the QR code to download the app on your smart device. Select from 142 preset programs or customize your own, and enjoy the show.

If you’re a fan of modern design and beautiful artwork, look no further. IA uses indirect illumination to enhance your space with a soft, glare-free glow. It syncs light, color, art, and sound to create a dynamic focal point that shifts your mood—whether displayed alone or as part of a larger composition. IA Smart Light can set the mood with just a tap. Use your smartphone or tablet to adjust IA’s lighting to match how you feel, support what you’re doing, or simply reflect your style. Whether you’re winding down, focusing in, or lighting up the night, IA helps every space feel uniquely yours.

The artwork light panels are elegant and come in two standard sizes: Nano (32×32 cm) and Pro (63×63 cm). They are easy to install. Choose Nano for compact spaces and Pro for bold, immersive visuals. You can even group them together to create a high-energy ambiance that moves with your music. And let’s not forget—a gallery of IA Smart Light panels can be an exciting addition to your living space or gaming room.

To ensure the LED wall art is durable and long-lasting, each IA panel is a remarkable engineering achievement, featuring up to 45,000 precise perforations that create a perfect balance of light and art. Crafted from mirrored stainless steel on both sides, the panels offer exceptional durability and a stunning reflective finish.IA features a mirrored stainless steel surface that functions as a sleek mirror by day and transforms into a vibrant, sound-reactive light show after dark. The dual function is truly attractive. You can change your space instantly with swappable frames to match your mood and style.

These panels are also low-voltage and energy-efficient, using just 12 watts while delivering 50,000 hours of maintenance-free lighting and artistic display. They operate at low voltage, are UL, CE, ULC, and CB certified, and can be used worldwide with local plug adapters.

A Legacy of Lighting Excellence

Lighting is nothing new for Farah Barnes. With over 28 years in the lighting and museum industry, Barnes led the award-winning firm APV Architectural Lighting Design (www.apvarch.com), known for its work in museum exhibitions, commercial lighting, and custom design features.

Now, she is focusing her expertise on IllumiArts LLC—dedicated to lighting design innovation and the manufacturing of immersive smart lighting systems with her team. This new chapter blends her architectural background with next-generation technology, culminating in the creation of IA Smart Light, a patented third-generation system that integrates light, sound, color, and reflection into one intelligent panel.

The Evolution from Illumi Arts to IA Smart Light

Originally launched as Illumi Arts, the concept has since evolved into IA Smart Light, a name that better reflects the system’s full range of intelligent, responsive capabilities. IA has already gained early recognition and has been showcased at prestigious venues including the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, the INDEX Trade Show in Dubai, and Theodores Luxury Furniture Showroom in Washington, D.C. It has also been featured on Touch of Modern, confirming its place in both high-end design and tech-forward markets.

Level Up Your Gaming Setup

IA Smart Light isn’t just for art lovers—it’s also made for gamers, streamers, and anime fans. One of the newest releases, the Anime Panel, brings vivid color and reactive motion into high-energy gaming spaces. During testing, the panel responded instantly to shifts in gameplay and music, amplifying the immersive feel. If you’re someone who loves dynamic lighting while gaming, IA might just become your new favorite accessory.

Tailored for Any Space

While IA Smart Light currently offers two standard panel sizes, the team is working on custom sizes and patterns to offer even more design flexibility. Interior designers, architects, and creatives can look forward to expanded options for luxury showrooms, home theaters, creative workspaces, reading nooks, and modern offices. Whether you’re lighting a calm corner or creating a statement wall, IA Smart Light delivers a stunning and functional design upgrade.

The LED art panels by IA Smart Light are a beautiful addition to any home or office. If you’re looking for a unique, intelligent lighting solution that doubles as modern artwork, look no further. These panels offer customizable lighting, energy efficiency, and a truly one-of-a-kind visual experience.

Explore IA Smart Light

Visit: www.illumiarts.com

Sneak Preview on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ia-smart-light/ia-smart-led-lighting-for-gamers-anime-fans-and-home-ambiance

Spotlight on Illumi Arts – Led Artwork is Brewing up the Design Scene One Light at a Time

Better Decorating Bible — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 05:20:03 +0000

Visually sharp, fresh, and lit up with led lights, Illumi Arts makes LED paneled artwork one of 2017’s most coveted trends. This lighting company has a bright future ahead of them – find out why!

If someone told you led artwork were going to change the way you think of interior décor, would you believe them? Farah Barnes, the creative director behind Illumi Arts, a company where illumination is their passion is definitely not afraid of taking risks. She’s predicted LED artwork to be one sought after trend this year, and she’s definitely on track. Creating artwork with a backlit LED panel that not only lights up the artwork itself, but also the room.

The Scoop on Illumi Arts

Illumi Arts makes it so easy to have beautiful artwork with color changing RGB LED lights that bring mood, style, and ambience to your home. There are also features with color changing programs that can easily be changed with your phone via Bluetooth. Now that’s what I call one-of-a-kind decorating!

Photo: Led Artwork By Illumi Arts

Meet Creative Director Farah Barnes

After reading Farah Barnes’ recent interview in Greece, we’ve totally fallen in love with her work! This Architectural Lighting Designer previously worked on projects including commercial buildings, bridges and interiors. She noticed the great importance of lighting and went on to specialize in that. Now, she is using her expertise to light up hotels, offices, schools, museums, and even art collector’s residences.

Photo: Led Artwork By Ilumi Arts

In the future, Farah will be working on a huge project in Athens Greece, doing modern museum lighting. This project will be opened in 2018, and we can’t wait to see the results! Having a large amount of experience, she has completed tons of projects in the UAE (for 11 years!), United States, and Europe. You can definitely see that she has a high level of experience in lighting, since lighting is not always easy to do in Museums and large historic buildings.

The Importance of Lighting

If you ever go on to become an interior designer, you will soon realize that lighting is such a critical part of design. There is even a whole course dedicated to lighting in this field, making it something a true designer must know. Have you ever purchased brighter light bulbs or placed a table lamp in a dark corner and realized your home looks twice the size? Those are just some tricks where lighting transforms each and every space. That is how you can use LED artwork to light up a boring wall, dark hallway, or even make a focal point in an otherwise bland room.