Do you know that 90% of informations are adopted through vision? Color, one of the visual informations, has a great influence on people. Color therapy is an area of holistic healing through such colors to affect our emotion and even our health. It has been many years that MOTO began to explore a new field, color therapy, as a long-term vision. We’ve been applying our remarkable know-how of designing products to the fields of experience and health.

 There are various ways to incorporate color therapy into our lives. Then how can we transfer ‘colors’? The answer for that question in MOTO was LED lighting. We decided to adopt cutting edge technology to express exact colors. By using LED(light-emitting diode), it was possible to create extraordinary and unprecedented colors. We mixed light and colors perfectly. Another outstanding point of digital light was that we could change colors easily. Combining design with such an up-to-date technology, MOTO finally launched color therapy lighting with switchable colors by remote controller,

 The first product was Stony, a lighting chair with fantastic colors chosen carefully. Users enjoy clean colors sitting on the light. As the first stepping into color therapy, it was thought that our design would make people comfortable and feel healed through colors and light. Meanwhile, the concept of color therapy is not familiar yet, so the initial approach had to be friendly. Considering those points, our first product came to form light into an object in nature, which is intimate with people but beautiful at the same time. So a lighting chair looking like a stone was presented.

 We continued to develop further and the second one is recently released. It is called Tirano, shaped into an egg. The egg has one of the most fundamental forms in nature. It’s natural and simple. It’s just the essence without any unnecessity. Much brighter than Stony, Tirano’s colors were selected and sorted by seasons. Since seasonal change has great an influence on people, it was suggested to compose colors proper for each season : for example, cool colors in summer and warm colors in winter.

 MOTO is still on our exploration. New product category, form and material, whatever it is, we have an open mind and expand our thoughts. Nowadays prototypes with artificial marble with smoother and softer feeling were made. It also gives different texture of light. We designed a lighting vase and several mirrors and now some tests are ongoing to produce. Meantime patterns with how to apply them to our products are being studied and created simultaneously. We’re trying various ways such as making holes or carving the marble into different depth to make fabulous visuals through light.

Impressed? It’s not the end. Expect more. Color your life with MOTO!

By Cha Cha / Yong Kyou Lee