According to designers Christina Strand and Niels Hvass, well-conceived design is created through dedication and love. If anything, it requires the ability to put yourself in the individual person’s surroundings and understand the functional and aesthetic needs that a design is expected to meet. Christina Strand and Niels Hvass constantly experiment with shapes and materials that result in designs whose style and details surprise and enrich the user.

In their design work for Lightyears, Christina Strand and Niels Hvass have focused on the interplay of light and shadow, as this is critical for the definition of form and space. Shadow yields contrast, obviously, and this makes light functional – just as the shadow of planet Earth reveals the shape of the moon.