LIGHTFAIR recently announced it will offer a new lighting professional mentorship program in the spring of 2021.
LIGHTFAIR recently announced it will offer a new lighting professional mentorship program in the spring of 2021.
Lighting design firm Nulty has published a series of worksheets that very effectively teach young children about light.
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) recently announced The Lighting Library is available for purchase. The new Library updates, expands, and replaces the 2010 Lighting Handbook and previous versions of the Society’s standards.
The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) honored Kasia Kozak, MS in Lighting, at the Lighting Research Center (LRC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); Trinetra Manickavasagam, MFA Lighting Design Parsons the School of Design, and Ivan Zamora, Master of Professional Studies in Lighting Design at the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), on October 28, 2020 when they presented their winning theses to a virtual audience of lighting professionals. The IESNYC awarded each recipient $2,000.
Controls, Education + Resources
The Lighting Controls Association now offers two YouTube webinars on tunable-white lighting and automatic plug load control, plus a new course on integrating lighting control and building automation systems.
At the end of September, LEDs Magazine held a virtual lighting conference. The sessions are now available for on-demand viewing.
Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently released a new whitepaper characterizing the current state of DC lighting and DC building microgrid technologies and opportunities to combine them.
The Board of Directors of the Richard Kelly Grant selected Trinetra Manickavasagam, MFA and Yulia Tyukhova PhD, LC, as recipients of this year’s Richard Kelly Grant. The Grant recognizes and encourages creative thought and activity in the use of light.
The Rocky Mountain Lighting Academy’s new Architectural Lighting I course is available to non-degree-seeking students from the professional community.
Once the lighting industry’s leading trade publication, in recent years ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING discontinued its print edition to become an online and newsletter information source. On July 28, 2020, the last ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING newsletter was distributed. According to AL, all subscribers are being automatically transitioned to sister publication ARCHITECT Newswire, which is distributed three times per week, and where lighting content will continue to be published.