March 2010

Creative Stage Lighting has announced that it will host “The ABCs of Lighting a Green Show” on Friday, March 26, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM (according to the promotional email) or 5:00 PM (according to the website) EST. The webinar, presented by Richard Cadena, will explore the latest technologies and how they compare to conventional [...]

The Senseable City Lab is dedicated to studying and facilitating adoption of sensors in cities, enabling real-time visualization of how the urban environment is being used, from traffic patterns to data flows to energy and water consumption. Check it out here. Here we see a visualization of cell phone activity in Rome during a soccer [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society, NYC Section (IESNYC) recently announced the winners of the 2010 NYC Student Lighting Competition during its 10th annual awards reception held at The Helen Mills Theater, New York City. Asked to develop a three-dimensional, abstract lighting composition to the theme “Liminal Luminosity,” competing students took on the challenge of interpreting the [...]

Concrete pendants, heavy desk lamps, cork lights, pendant and floor blown-glass luminaires with cork stoppers and more! Click here to begin.

The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY) has announced that more than 1,000 lighting industry professionals from North America and Europe and 200 students and educators from New York’s higher educational programs attended its LEDucation IV event to learn firsthand about the latest developments in LED technology.

Bill Watkins has been appointed CEO of Bridgelux, an LED company. Lumenergi has announced that Peter Weller has joined the company as VP of Sales and Dan Weed has joined the company as VP of Customer Operations.

The Lighting Quotient (formerly SRSDI), parent company of Elliptipar and Tambient, has announced a new $2,500 student scholarship. In honor of Sylvan R. Shemitz, founder of the company, it has partnered with the IES to sponsor a scholarship for second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-year undergraduate or graduate students in accredited lighting degree programs. Students are [...]

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