MOOD is an award-winning luminaire created by emerging lighting designer Vaida Atkočaitytė-Dališanskienė, allowing users to create personal light art through colour, composition, and light within their interiors. The project was recognised at the LIT Lighting Design Awards 2024, where Vaida received the title “Emerging Lighting Product Designer of the Year” for her innovative MOOD light compositions, which also won in the "Mood Lighting" category.

The award jury highlighted MOOD for its inventive balance of functionality, sustainability, and creativity, transforming a lighting object into a dynamic system that enables users to customize their spaces through evolving light compositions.

“I wanted to create a luminaire that behaves like art — never boring, never fixed, and always open to change,” says Vaida Atkočaitytė-Dališanskienė. “MOOD allows colour to exist without fear, so each user can create a personal light composition shaped by mood and interior.”

MOOD is conceived as a flexible lighting object that adapts to changing interiors and emotional needs, offering a dynamic alternative to static decorative lighting.

During the day, MOOD appears minimalist and graphic. When illuminated, it comes alive: colours emerge, overlap, and visually transform the scale and character of the luminaire. The composition is typically created through indirect light, with the light source directed toward the surface so that colour and shadow softly expand into the surrounding space.

By repositioning the light source or rearranging the translucent coloured elements, users can create endlessly different compositions — subtle or expressive, calm or energising. MOOD can also interact with existing interior lighting: when illuminated from above by ceiling light, the luminaire becomes a wall-based artwork, similar to an art piece traditionally lit from the top, where light activates colour, depth, and composition rather than the object itself.

The inspiration behind MOOD comes from coloured stained-glass windows in churches, where light continuously reshapes colour depending on the sun’s position and intensity. Graphically, the luminaire references the simplicity of Piet Mondrian’s Red, Blue, and Yellow, reinterpreted through a black grid structure. Unlike static compositions, MOOD’s grid allows colours to blend, overlap, and evolve freely through light.

MOOD consists of a milled base, a movable light source, and interchangeable translucent coloured elements. Users can select colours according to season, mood, or personal preference and insert them into the base to form their own composition. The position of the light source influences the intensity and scale of the coloured shadows, while overlapping colours create new hues. Changing just one element is enough to transform the entire atmosphere, making each composition unique.

Beyond aesthetics, MOOD aligns with human-centric lighting principles, which focus on well-being and biological rhythms. Cooler light tones stimulate concentration and energy during the day, while warmer tones evoke calm and relaxation in the evening, helping users align their environment with their emotional and physical needs.

Material choices were guided by safety, functionality, and sustainability. Inspired by stained glass, the coloured elements are made from organic glass, which is lightweight, durable, and unbreakable. The base combines white-painted open-pore wood veneer with a black graphic grid, reinforcing the luminaire’s graphic and architectural character.

MOOD transforms lighting into a creative process — allowing users to continuously reshape their interiors through colour, light, and personal expression.