Craig DiLouie

Cinimod Studio created an extraordinary LED light sculpture to entertain diners at Caviar House & Prunier at London Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2. The sculpture, titled “Emergence,” spirals 43 ft. toward the ceiling, with 350,000 LEDs programmed to invoke the choreography of a school of fish. "Emergence" for Caviar House & Prunier, London Heathrow Terminal 2 [...]

The proliferation of solid-state light sources has highlighted the limitations of the CRI metric as a predictor that fully represents how people perceive color. This article in ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING describes these limitations and efforts to create a new metric. Check it out here. In March 2013, the IES formed the Color Metric Task Group to [...]

MIT Technology Review recently published an article about how Lighting and the Internet are merging, and what that means. I found this excerpt to be of particular interest: “Another look at how lighting systems are changing will emerge this November, when a 14-story regional headquarters for Deloitte, nearing completion in Amsterdam, will be festooned with [...]

What’s the Internet of Things, and what does it mean? MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW has the answer here.

In what is surely a sign of the times, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) recently announced the new ASC 137 Lighting Systems Committee. This committee has received approval from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Executive Standards Council as an Accredited Standards Committee (ASC). This approval is the culmination of a multimonth process and [...]

Volkslyte’s Tangent is a 2-in.-wide luminaire available in suspended downlight and uplight/downlight as well as surface-mounted and recessed configurations. Volkslyte factory-curves the extruded aluminum profile to almost any radius or bent shape, lighting the contour from within. Standard- (6W/linear ft.) and high-output (12W/linear ft.) LED (T6 cold cathode also available), color temperatures 2700K-4000K, dimming options. [...]

Below is an article I contributed to the June issue of TED Magazine, reprinted with permission: The American Institute of Architects’ Consensus Construction Forecast predicted nonresidential construction spending to increase 5.8 percent in 2014 and 8 percent in 2015, a rebound led by the commercial sector. Combined with a healthy market for lighting upgrades, this [...]

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America climbed to 68.2 in August from 54.5 in July. Slightly less than half of the survey panelists reported business conditions improved from July to August compared to only 9% claiming they deteriorated. The remaining 45% of panelists reported conditions were largely unchanged. The [...]

The last three months have shown steadily increasing demand for design services and the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) is now at its highest level since 2007. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lead time between architecture billings and construction spending. The American Institute of [...]