Goalight, the stylish new overhead LED fixture by manufacturer Esse-Ci and designer Filippo Paccagnella, has got me thinking about Mexican soccer. This is because my visceral experience of the name (the “goal” followed quickly by the long “i”) evokes the long-drawn vowel of that famed anunciador, who makes announcing a “goooooooallll!” a veritable feast of auditory celebration. Something of that energy is also embodied in Goalight, albeit the sense of hearing has been swapped for the sense of sight.

Goalight. Designed by Filippo Paccagnella for Esse-Ci.

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Goalight is an acronym of sorts for “Geometrical Organic Atmosphere,” otherwise knows as “the expression of contemporary beauty, both ingeniously and sustainably designed.” “Ingenious,” because its antecedent is a thermodynamic concept that lets Paccagnela push the boundaries of form; and “sustainable” because its inner workings of long and lean LEDs are energy efficient (lasting up to ten times as long as compact fluorescents, Esse-Ci reminds us), while its housing of brushed aluminum is gleaned of 100% post-consumer material. If this sounds like another careless bandying about of the green badge, consider this video.

After said consideration I’m sure you’ll agree that all those soda cans have gone to a worthy cause, as you simultaneously digest the illuminating factoid that “700 soda cans = Goalight = 55,000 hours of a brightly lit interior.” Add to this formulation the aforementioned model for Goalight, “the movement of a light wave and how it travels through space,” and you have a doubly attractive product. The look of Goalight is compelling, bordering on fantastical yet very much grounded in a contemporary aesthetic. And even acknowledging that no human eye can actually see the shape of a light wave, the imaginative moxie of the notion holds fast. Goalight is supple and smooth and every bit as real as those photons it emits in streaming streaks across the living room.