Today is Valentine’s Day.
The Challenge: Retrofit a former night club into a true lounge with a lighting scheme that would saturate the environment with color and color-changing effects, but without moving lights. The Solution: Ryan M. Rafferty for Ohm Productions illuminated the space almost entirely with RGB LEDs, allowing a variety of colors and effects schemes without losing [...]
Controls, Products + Technology
Leviton Manufacturing Company has expanded its line of commercial wireless occupancy sensors with a comprehensive offering of LevNet RF wireless energy management devices. These self-powered devices integrate Leviton product design with EnOcean wireless control technology. With no wires to run, the family of LevNet RF devices reduces labor and material costs and takes only minutes [...]
Enjoy. First, the Weather Project: http://www.youtube.com/v/-dFOphuPqMo&hl=en_US&fs=1& Next, hear the artist discuss his work with space and light: http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
The Lighting Practice has announced that it has received Women Business Enterprise (WBE) certification from the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, Pennsylvania’s Department of General Services’ Bureau of Minority and Women Business Opportunities, and from the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Economic Opportunity. This positions the firm to network with and do business with companies [...]
Nora Lighting has finished a major update of its website at www.noralighting.com that spotlights more than 100 new products, including LED and CFL luminaires and decorative accent lighting, while also providing a wider range of customer service features. Improvements include: * Easier to navigate * New homepage quickly links users directly to specific product lines [...]
A Reuters article published today focused on Philips’ investments in LED lighting, estimating the company has invested 4 billion euros–about $5.5 billion–in green technologies: * Philips’ sales in 2009 reached 6.5 billion euros * In Q409, LED-based products comprised 10+% of Philips’ lighting sales * Philips executive Niels Haverkorn: “In terms of value around 2015, [...]
Codes + Standards, Education + Resources, Legislation + Regulation
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Air Cycle Corporation’s short video discussing lamp recycling and promoting its “Bulb Eater” product: http://www.youtube.com/v/Z_457-lXAhw&hl=en_US&fs=1&