Craig DiLouie

Love watching the craftsmanship and technique that goes into the creation of beautiful hand-blown glass light fixtures. Check out this video by Steven Dale Studios.

This blog post at the Philips community website, “Lighting Up Memory,” looks at the Berlin Wall and its impact on local lighting. The post discusses key elements of Alexander Tolle’s 2009 whitepaper on post-unification Berlin, Urban identity policies in Berlin: From critical reconstruction to reconstructing the Wall. It’s an interesting read; check it out here [...]

Mundo Illumination has appointed 25-­year sales veteran Gary Mann to Vice President of Sales. Digital Lumens has appointed Fritz Morgan, formerly of Joule Unlimited, to Chief Product Officer. Howard P. Lewis, representing the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), has been re-elected chair of the National Lighting Bureau. Outdoor lighting manufacturer Sentry Electric has [...]

The Lighting Controls Association’s website has been relaunched in a Web 2.0 format (blog with Twitter, RSS, Facebook, YouTube) at www.lightingcontrolsassociation.org. This was a big project that required us to move a lot of content into the new format that is now easier to search, share, comment. If you have not yet checked out this [...]

Dialight’s StreetSENSE SL Series LED Street Light is a pole-mounted cobra head full cutoff Type II LED luminaire suitable for walkways, roads, bike trails, parking lots and similar applications. Each 131W unit, rated at over 50 lumens/W, is intended to replace 250W mercury vapor and similar HID luminaires for significant energy savings and other benefits. [...]

AmerillumBrands, a design manufacturer of specified lighting products located in Southern California, is looking for a Regional Sales Manager to represent the company’s energy lighting brand. Must have knowledge of utility-based rebate programs and 4+ years in sales in the lighting industry. Will be responsible for conducting sales training presentations with prospective clients (distributors, contractors, [...]

Part of the backlash against compact fluorescent lamps has been that they contain mercury. The argument doesn’t hold up on one level, which is that incandescent lamps require more power, which means power plants must burn more fossil fuels to satisfy that requirement, and thereby emit more mercury into the environment than CFLs. This type [...]

“Glitzy, groovy and fun” is how Manning describes its new Discoh family of products. The matching pendant, sconce and surface ceiling mount fixtures are clad in one of three textured aluminum or stainless steel metal trims for a variety of flashy looks. Energy efficient lamp packages and a flat disk or shallow bowl bottom diffuser [...]

Denny’s Corporation has chosen energy-efficient LED lights from Cree, Inc. as the preferred lighting standard for all its new and remodeled stores across the United States. Cree’s award-winning LR6 six-inch downlights are being specified in various applications, including dining areas and restrooms in all newly constructed and converted facilities. “We evaluated numerous LED light fixtures [...]