Craig DiLouie

In a recent newsletter, the Northwest Lighting Network published a table suggesting good, better, best approaches to common lighting retrofits: 4-lamp troffer, 4-lamp strip, and HID luminaire.

The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education has named eight winners of grants and awards for 2018 totaling $90,000, the largest annual distribution in its 29-year history. Submittals were received from lighting educators in colleges and universities throughout North America.

In a recent newsletter, Egret Consulting published an article by founder and CEO Ted Konnerth, in which he talks about customer ownership, focusing on the three types of customers and sales support strategies addressing each.

Current by GE’s Lumination luminaires use the company’s patented TriGain technology to enhance both CRI and R9, a saturated red critical to color accuracy.

Ukrainian dance crew Light Balance on America’s Got Talent in 2017. The crew combined dance with stunning lighting effects to wow the audience. Check out the video.

The European Union is considering draft regulations extending its Ecodesign laws that would effectively eliminate tungsten halogen and compact fluorescent lamps.

Episode #22 of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast provides a thought-provoking interview with Dan Ryan, Co-Founder & CEO of VergeSense. In this podcast, Ryan talks about the IoT, intelligent lighting, Li-Fi, indoor positioning, and the Matrix.

The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) awarded its annual Thesis Prizes to Jessica Collier, Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design, Parsons School of Design at the New School, to Chonlatorn (Tan) Pornpraphan, Master of Professional Studies in Lighting Design – New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), and to Olivia Privitera, Master of Science in Lighting, Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) School of Architecture.

Focal Point’s Skydome® has long offered a timeless, classic shape. Recently, the company updated the luminaire with the Skydome Edge. The new design retains elements of the original while adopting edge-lighting technology to deliver lens uniformity and a shallow knife-edge profile.