Awards

This week, I’m pleased to present a terrific new solution that explores the potential of LED technology. OSRAM’s OmniPoint is a wireless, array-based LED lighting solution that provides extremely flexible light placement and intensity options. The product won Most Innovative Product of the Year at the LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards as well as best of category [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has announced a call for submissions for the 2015 IES Progress Report. This program offers organizations in lighting an opportunity to present important new products, research, publications and design tools. All lighting products must be introduced commercially and all research, publications and design tools must be completed [...]

The Howard Brandston Student Lighting Design Education Grant was established to encourage and recognize students who have demonstrate exceptional professional promise through the presentation of an original and ingenious solution to a supplied design problem. The Grant Award is a plaque and a grant in the amount of $1,000. Honorable Mention (if awarded) is a [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) Student Lighting Competition (SLC) recognized several remarkable winners in its 15th annual competition. “denCITY,” a design collaboration by Nura Venta, Sergio Taveras and Selin Ergeneli (Parsons The New School for Design) won the Grand Prize and cash prize of $2,000. Second prize was awarded to Pratt [...]

Lots of great products to peruse in the 2014 IES Progress Report. Check out the products selected here.

Lighting for Tomorrow, the energy-efficient residential lighting product awards competition, is now accepting submissions. This includes energy-efficient lamps and luminaires as well as controls. The deadline for Intent to Submit is April 24, 2015. For complete guidelines and rules, click here. Winners will be announced during an award ceremony at the ALA Conference in October [...]

Submissions are now being accepted for the Illuminating Engineering Society’s New York City Section’s (IESNYC) 47th Annual Lumen Awards now through February 14, 2015. The Lumen Awards recognize excellence in lighting design in various typologies. Any New York City designer may enter. Click here to learn more.

The IES Illumination Awards recognizes individual for professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design based on the individual merit of each entry. The Illumination Awards is comprised of five program categories: * The Lighting Controls Innovation Award Sponsored by the Lighting Controls Association * The Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Lighting Design * [...]

GE Lighting recently announced the call for entries for its 32nd annual GE Edison Award competition, recognizing excellence and quality in professional lighting designs that employ the significant use of GE Lighting products. Online entries must be received by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Jan. 19, 2015. To submit a project, applicants should go to [...]