Awards

The eleventh annual Lighting for Tomorrow residential energy-efficient lighting product design competition recognized five LED luminaires, two LED replacement lamps, two LED retrofit kits and, for the first time, one organic LED (OLED) fixture as winners. Seven more products were identified with honorable mentions or as other noteworthy. The competition, which recognizes the best-designed energy-efficient [...]

The 2013 Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Solid-State Lighting Outdoor Design Competition was recently launched. Written Intents to Submit are due by September 20, 2013 and must be submitted online here. Final submission forms are due by October 11, 2013, and physical product samples are due by November 1. Judging takes place in December, and results [...]

Cooper Lighting recently announced it is now accepting entries for its 37th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The competition, which focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element in design, is open to all lighting designers, architects, engineers, professional designers and consultants who use Cooper Lighting fixtures [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society has announced the Award of Merit Recipients for the 2013 IES Illumination Awards. The Illumination Awards committee received 471 projects for consideration. From the submittals, 355 were scored sufficiently to receive an Award of Merit. The Merit Award projects receiving acceptable score levels were judged further for the highest award levels [...]

The 2012 GE Edison Award was presented to Hervé Descottes, Jeff Taylor and Jessica Tchah of L’Observatoire International for lighting Vintry Fine Wines in New York, New York, USA (Architects: Rogers Marvel Architects, New York, New York, USA). A personalized Steuben crystal award for the winner of this 30th annual lighting design competition was presented [...]

Philips Ledalite’s BoldPlay, which won Best New Product of the Year at the LIGHTFAIR 2013 Product Innovation Awards, presents a new portfolio of high-performance direct/indirect LED lighting systems that consume 28% less energy than traditional technologies such as fluorescent with efficacies as high as 106 lumens/W, according to the company. Integrating daylight harvesting with the [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) recently announced a call for submissions to the 2013 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 LFI Innovation Awards honors industry innovations for lighting-related products and designs introduced in the past 12 months. Each product was judged by an independent panel of renowned lighting professionals. I was pleased to help out again this year Mark Roush, who does a herculean labor producing the event for LIGHTFAIR, by editing the product [...]

Ten award winners representing architectural lighting design projects from nine countries—the most diverse group of projects in recent memory—comprise the winners of the 30th Annual International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) International Lighting Design Awards. Of the ten projects recognized, one entry earned a Special Citation, six earned Awards of Merit and three earned Awards [...]