a beam connects all
We are a global platform connecting international projects with top-tier design talent and suppliers.
We offer profound expertise in the lighting industry. Our focus is on creating smooth collaboration and delivering elegant, innovative solutions that highlight creativity and simplicity for every participant in the field.
ARE YOU A MANUFACTURER/ SELLER?
We provide manufacturers and suppliers with a gateway to the international market. V/LIGHT showcases your products in prestigious projects, events, spots, allowing your craftsmanship and innovation to reach global audience.
We enable a seamless partnership between international dealers and manufacturers, leading them to bridge their expertise and resources.
By acting as a facilitator, we help global sellers connect directly with trusted manufacturers, ensuring a smooth collaboration that merges distinct design vision and production strenghts into a unified lighting solution.
We we offer a direct gateway to our extensive network of architects and designers, enabling them to bring exclusive, design-driven lighting projects seeking for solutions.
By partnering with us you can access high-quality products that are designed by top-tier creative talent, those can offer customers unique and distinguished lighting options for projects.
V/LIGHT keeps its finger on the pulse of industry and introduces you to the latest innovations and advancements as well as new companies, events, technologies.
ARE YOU A LIGHTING DESIGNER?
V/LIGHT provides a platform for lighting designers to showcase their creativity on a global stage. We endorse and connect you with local/global projects and help to elevate your portfolio. We establish collaborations with you on valuable initiatives.
You make the work; we tell your story.
Lighting is one of the most important elements in design process.
ARE YOU AN ARCHITECT?
V/LIGHT acts a collaborative partner, helping to seamlessly integrate bespoke lighting concepts into your architectural vision. We offer access to curated network of lighting designers, lighting suppliers & distributors appropriate for your prestigious projects.
V/LIGHT ensures to reach the best technology, best design at best economy verified for the projects. Once you partner with us, we run the lighting wing of your complex work in a coordinated and trustful way.
ARE YOU A BUYER/PROJECT MANAGER?
We know how it works in real life. Most of the designs cannot be realized as on the paper due to economic concerns. Project managers, Buyers often seek for equivalent products for the investors. We make life easier for them by providing a reliable network and smooth collaboration process.
V/LIGHT not only brings you the most feasible alternatives but also supports you in delivering projects on schedule and within budget, with the resources you need at your fingertips.
Lighting is a technical field which can cause loss of money, make security harm or create dissapointments in the short term. Do not risk it.
ARE YOU A PRODUCT DESIGNER?
Lighting is not all about architectural, landscape and/or space design. Product design is at the core of the business. V/LIGHT is introduced to you by an industrial designer with 30 years of experience – last decade in lighting industry -. We provide product development and manufacturing services as well as PR & marketing strategies for new designs.
V/LIGHT meets global designers with local companies; and local designers with global markets.
V/LIGHT ensures that the final lighting solutions are not only beautiful and functional but also tailored for your unique needs. We bring together the best talent and products to create spaces that delight and inspire.
We safeguard your budget by providing the right designers, sellers and products.
V/LIGHT designed a “ lighting festival”, directed and curated the first “lighting exhibition” in Turkey; edited and coordinated the publishing of the very first book about light, wrote dozens of articles and contents about light on prestigious books and mediums, gave more than 100 talks, conferences, online sessions about lighting industry and attended over 30 classes as a guest lecturer to teach light at the universities during the last 10 years.
We also introduced and finalized a unique lighting product design competition in 2024.
Our network is getting wider with the young generation in our habitat.
V/LIGHT is introduced to you by a renowned industrial designer with an experience of 30 years in the field: Özlem Yalım
After running her own design company between 1995-2001, she started to work at management positions in corporate life. She constantly introduced entrepreneurial projects beside her corporate roles in different industries including furniture, household objects, fairs & exhibitions. Please visit www.vanguardis.world & www.ozlemyalim.com for further information.
She was mentioned within the “Most Creative People of Turkey” by TurkishTime, both in 2010 and 2011. Yalım is well known by introducing and directing the first İstanbul Design Biennale between 2010-2014.
She worked as the Head of Brand Strategy at of the leading distributor companies in Turkey between 2015-2025 dealing with leading brands as iGuzzini, Simes, Linealight, Lasvit, Aqua Creations, Louis Poulsen, Ingo Maurer, Terzani, Lodes, Cattelani & Smith, Brand van Egmond, Bover, Contardi and many more.
She worked at lighting advisor mainly for art & private projects including İstanbul Biennale exhibitions.
She established VANGUARDIS Strategy & Design in 2025. V/LIGHT is a venture of VANGUARDIS