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Awards

2015 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition

You have a client opening a wine bar and restaurant in a major west coast city, and they want you to design a signature pendant to mount over the bar plus a complementary surface-mounted luminaire for the lounge area. What do you do?

That was the challenge to students for the 2015 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition.

First place (shown below) was earned by Chelsea Brukardt of Ringling College of Art + Design.

Learn more about Brukardt’s work and the other winners here.

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Craig DiLouie
Stairwell with bright ceiling light and overlaid message: 'Reliable lighting. Lower energy costs. Safer stairwells.' Natural LED badge at bottom, plus three circular feature icons at top.

Events

IES26: The Lighting Conference
CEDIA Expo / Commercial Integrator Expo
ArchLIGHT Summit
ALA Conference 2026
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Event hero banner for ArchLight Summit: two speakers on the left (Leni Schwendinger and Andrea Hartranft) with a purple gradient right side showing 'Two Keynotes No Substitutes' and a 'Save Your Seat' button.

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