Awards

Now in its 16th year, the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) Student Lighting Competition (SLC) awarded “12:04:24 – 12:04:50 AM,” a collaboration between Leela Shanker and Samuel Powers, the Grand Prize. Both students are enrolled in a dual-degree program combining the Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design and a Master of [...]

At LIGHTFAIR, Eaton has announced the winners of the 39th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. Six professional awards and six student awards were presented. The annual competition, which began in 1977, focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element in design and requires the predominant use of [...]

Current, powered by GE has announced the winners of the 33rd annual GE Edison Awards. The competition recognizes excellence in professional lighting designs that use Current LED lighting products and controls. Entries are judged on functional excellence; architectural compatibility; effective use of GE LED products and techniques; appropriate color, form and texture revelation; energy efficiency; [...]

The LFI Innovation Awards highlighted the industry’s most innovative products and designs introduced during the last 12 months. This year’s program received 275 entries spanning 15 categories, with each submission judged by an independent panel of lighting professionals. Winning entries exemplified the best in innovative design and thinking. Among the 16 winning companies are these [...]

Lighting for Tomorrow has launched its fourteenth consecutive annual competition recognizing high-quality energy-efficient residential lighting products on the market. Winners are heavily promoted by Lighting for Tomorrow for a full calendar year. Award recipients will also be eligible to be promoted by energy efficiency programs across the US and Canada. Lighting for Tomorrow is sponsored [...]

Architectural SSL magazine recently announced the sixth annual Product Innovation Awards competition, which recognizes outstanding products and product developments relating to solid-state lighting. Products—both luminaires and components—and products as applied in projects, will be reviewed by the editorial staff and an expert panel of judges. The award winners will ultimately represent a peer-recognized selection of [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) recently announced the 2016 Lumen Awards are open for submissions now through February 8, 2015. A signature program of the IESNYC, the Lumen Awards celebrate excellence in lighting design. Note that starting this year, the IESNYC Lumen Awards and the IES Illumination Awards are now two [...]

The 2016 Next Generation Luminaires™ Outdoor Competition has officially launched. Online Intents to Submit are due on January 18, 2016, and the judging event will take place in March. The 2016 Outdoor Competition application categories include: Luminaires for Pedestrian Scale Focused Evaluation • Pole-mounted Pedestrian Scale (12′) • Pole-mounted Decorative Streetscape (20′) • Bollards • [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) honored the finalists of the 2015 IES Illumination Awards and presented IES Society Awards for Technical and Service Achievement at the IES Annual Conference in Indianapolis, IN November 8 – 10. The IES Illumination Awards included five Awards of Distinction, ten Awards of Excellence, and four Special Citations. The Awards [...]