Craig DiLouie

Most light sources have a particular standardized size and shape that affects how objects and surfaces will be illuminated. Point sources are small lamps, often featuring a clear outer glass bulb revealing the arc tube or bare incandescent filament, used to produce dramatic highlights and pronounced shadows. Linear sources, such as tubular fluorescent lamps, emit [...]

GE Lighting has established an ESCO Energy Services Program and alliances with selected energy services companies (ESCOs). Through the program, GE aims to help customers explore energy strategies that take into account such factors as cost-of-light payback, return on investment, rebates, financing and government incentives that can reduce investment costs. Throughout the process, including planning [...]

Selection of the right luminaire and controls takes considerable time and effort, and is integral to the lighting design. Cost overruns, value engineering, unclear or weakly worded specifications, and conflicts between lighting and other buidling systems can result in substitutions and other design decisions being made without the lighting designer’s involvement. Lighting designers should protect [...]

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, reprinted with permission from Postings: from the desk of Jim Brodrick [Recently,] DOE published the final ENERGY STAR criteria for integral LED lamps, which go into effect August 31, 2010. These criteria are the culmination of a long process of comment and revision, with the first draft published in January [...]

Fluxus by Andromeda is a wavering Murano glass sculpture created to adorn White Gallery, the first big lifestyle store to be opened in Rome in October 2009. Fluxus is the result of the cooperation between designer Karim Rashid, who designed the Knit (individual hand-made glass element) and Artist Michela Vianello, whose inspiration gave concrete shape [...]

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Creative Stage Lighting has announced that it will host “The ABCs of Lighting a Green Show” on Friday, March 26, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM (according to the promotional email) or 5:00 PM (according to the website) EST. The webinar, presented by Richard Cadena, will explore the latest technologies and how they compare to conventional [...]

The Senseable City Lab is dedicated to studying and facilitating adoption of sensors in cities, enabling real-time visualization of how the urban environment is being used, from traffic patterns to data flows to energy and water consumption. Check it out here. Here we see a visualization of cell phone activity in Rome during a soccer [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society, NYC Section (IESNYC) recently announced the winners of the 2010 NYC Student Lighting Competition during its 10th annual awards reception held at The Helen Mills Theater, New York City. Asked to develop a three-dimensional, abstract lighting composition to the theme “Liminal Luminosity,” competing students took on the challenge of interpreting the [...]