Awards

  Here are quick updates on four lighting industry award programs: 2025 IES INDUSTRY PROGRESS REPORT The IES is accepting submissions for significant new advancements in lighting products, research, publications, and design tools from the past year, for the 2025 IES Industry Progress Report. Acceptance is based on an impartial judging process used by the [...]

Here is a quick update on six industry events and five awards. EVENTS:   CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: IES25 The Lighting Conference Deadline: January 23 for Hands-On Workshops and Speaker Sessions Deadline: February 27 for Research Track and Posters More information here.   CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: 2025 IES Street & Area Lighting Conference (SALC) Deadline: January 30, 2025. [...]

  Four award programs have recently announced their Call For Entries: The New York City Section Of The IES Lumen Awards For outstanding lighting design projects. More information and entry submissions are here. Deadline: January 10, 2025.   National Lighting Bureau Tesla Awards For excellence in lighting projects, both new construction and retrofit. More information [...]

The following five luminaires won the Red Dot Best Of The Best 2023 Award: Luxo Adapt Free-Standing Luminaire Family is manufacturered by Glamox AS, based in Norway. See the image above. This modular, free-standing luminaire can be positioned anywhere in an office. The mainstay of the collection is a delicately sculpted pole with a streamlined [...]

  The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has made recent announcements related to both the IES24 Lighting Conference, as well as the 2024 IES Industry Progress Report. IES24 Lighting Conference The IES is now accepting papers, posters, and speaker presentation abstracts for IES24 Lighting Conference, held August 15-17, in New York City. Subject-matter experts can present [...]

Here is an early look at 2024 lighting industry events, call-for-speakers, and award programs in 2024: Lightovation: Dallas International Lighting Show – January 10 – 14, 2024, Dallas, TX. Bright Star Awards – Product awards. Now accepting submissions. Final submission deadline is 1/26/24. Website is here. EC&M Product of the Year Awards 2024 – Product [...]

The EC&M Product of the Year Awards are now accepting submissions. Important details: Fees Early Bird Entry Fee: $375 per product Regular Entry Fee: $425 per product Deadlines  Early Bird Deadline: December 1, 2023 Final Deadline: January 26, 2024 Product must have been released after January 1, 2023. Product categories relevant to the lighting industry [...]

The Nobel Prizes awarded, this month, in both Chemistry and Physics had some things in common. Both involved scientific breakthroughs involving light, as well as distance scales so small that quantum mechanical behavior is essential to understand the science. Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov were awarded the Nobel Prize in [...]

Two architectural magazines are currently accepting applications for their Product Innovation Award programs. Both magazines are part of Endeavor Business Media: Architectural SSL magazine, and Architectural Products magazine. The award programs are separate, however. Here are details of each award program: 2023 Architectural SSL Product Innovation Award: Submission deadline has been extended until July 14th, [...]