Craig DiLouie

The Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions fell 5.7 points in December to 48.2. The index failed to top the critical 50-point threshold for the first time since July, indicating modest deterioration in the business environment following a period of steady, if slow, growth over the last several months. By contrast, [...]

Lighting designer Keith Parham shows us how color was used to create an uncomfortable atmosphere in his lighting of “Adding Machine: A Musical.” Check it out here.

HUNT Dimming has announced that it has begun celebrating its fiftieth year as a lighting control manufacturer and technology development company. The invention of the transistor in 1956, which launched the dawn of the modern-day electronics age and earned its inventors the Nobel prize for physics, would have a far-reaching impact on lighting control. Four [...]

In his most recent “Energy Advisor” column, Bill Warren, my favorite columnist in the lighting industry, talked about how the Clash for Clunkers program, which targeted autos, is being geared up for home appliances. Bill asks the common sense and very good question, “Why not a Cash for Clunkers incentive program now for the obsolete [...]

Liberty Building Forensics Group has published a post on its blog here about potential downsides to coming green building codes such as ASHRAE 189.1, Standard for the Design of High Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings. Titled, “What Happens When Green Becomes Code: Do Buildings Get Better or Do Lawyers Get Richer?”, warms of [...]

In September 2009, the Department of Energy received the first entry in the L Prize competition, an LED replacement for the 60W incandescent bulb from Philips Electronics. Philips’ entry is now undergoing photometric testing at independent laboratories. This performance testing will verify that the product submitted meets the L Prize specifications for the 60W replacement, [...]

The Wall Street Journal paints the International Dark Sky Association as Big Brother in Eric Felten’s opinion piece here. Once again, lighting takes a backseat to politics, but perhaps not in the way Felten thinks. In the lighting industry, we often hope for lighting issues to enter the public consciousness. But once they do, they [...]

Klipsch has introduced the LightSpeaker–LED light bulbs that include integral speakers for playing music via wireless receivers. The product won a 2010 CES Innovations Award. Check it out here. http://www.youtube.com/v/gpOc_AYpGM0&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Hat tip to Randy Smith at the Lighting Design Lab for turning me on to this.

The High Line was built in the 1930s as a 22-block stretch of short-haul freight elevated rail cutting through the Lower West Side of Manhattan. In 1980, the High Line carried its last run, was abandoned and virtually disappeared into the city’s urban jungle. Nearly 30 years later, in 2009, the High Line was reborn [...]