Craig DiLouie

This time-lapse video reveals lighting techniques used to light the gilded age galleries at the Smithsonian Art Museum. By turning lights ON one layer at a time, the layers and their purpose are revealed.

The Lunder Conservation Center held a one-day symposium on LED lighting in museums in March 2013, which included a series of presentations by museum and lighting specialists. Here’s Gordon Anson, chief lighting designer for the National Gallery of Art.

The Board of OSRAM Licht AG has announced that it intends to transfer its general lighting/lamps (including both traditional and LED) business into an independent legal structure. In fiscal 2013/14, this business generated worldwide sales of about 2 billion euros. The independent legal structure is to provide the basis for the further development (spinoff or [...]

The Lunder Conservation Center held a one-day symposium on LED lighting in museums in March 2013, which included a series of presentations by museum and lighting specialists. Here’s Naomi Miller of PNNL.

The Lunder Conservation Center held a one-day symposium on LED lighting in museums in March 2013, which included a series of presentations by museum and lighting specialists. Here’s Scott Rosenfeld, lighting designer with the American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery.

USAI Lighting’s BeveLED 2.0 FLAT downlight measures less than 4″ tall from the finished ceiling plane to the top of the housing and presents a 2-3/4″ housing height in the trim version and a 3-3/8” tall housing height in the trimless, providing design flexibility. The downlight emits up to 2,350 lumens at up to 84 [...]

A first-quarter survey by the Business Roundtable indicates CEOs expect U.S. GDP to increase 2.8% in 2015, up from 2.4% last quarter. Reuters has the story here.

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy High-flux lighting applications in high-temperature environments present a formidable challenge for LEDs. The higher the luminous flux from a luminaire, the more difficult it can be to properly dissipate the heat, to [...]

I wrote this article for the March issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The year 2014 represented a major milestone in adoption of LED technology in terms of demand and product design. With energy savings as high as 30-40 percent (not including additional control impacts), long rated life (with the promise of little or [...]