Awards

GE Lighting is developing a 60W replacement LED bulb that meets the specifications for the Department of Energy’s Bright Tomorrow Lighting (L Prize) competition. GE recently submitted a letter of intent to the Department of Energy to enter the competition. “Our L Prize journey is inspired by the challenge to deliver advanced technology in a [...]

Royal Philips Electronics recently announced the launch of the 2011 Light World Tour, an initiative designed to share visual inspiration in the professional lighting design community. Individuals who work on or are touched by lighting design are invited to win a three-month tour to search for and visit the most inspiring and innovative lighting sights [...]

Seventeen award winners representing architectural lighting design projects from nine countries comprise the winners of the 28th Annual International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) International Lighting Design Awards, recognized at a presentation held 18 May at the Crystal Tea Room in Philadelphia, PA USA. Of the 17 projects recognized (from 200 submissions), three entries earned [...]

The below products were recognized by the LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards as Best of Category for the below categories: CONVENTIONAL LAMPS ED28 145W Energy Advantage CDM with AllStart by Philips Lighting A 145W CDM direct retrofit for 175W QMH lamps on either a probe- or pulse-start magnetic ballast. SPECIALTY LAMPS (LED, OLED, INDUCTION, OTHER) LUXEON A [...]

Most Innovative Product of the Year: Revel by Acuity Brands Lighting A 5-panel modular OLED ceiling mounted system of 6.5W, 4-in. square panels at 60 LPW and 85 CRI. Technical Innovation Award: Luxeon A by Philips Lumileds A hot-tested LED with tight binning at 85 LPW providing 170 lumens at 2700K and 3000K with 80 [...]

At LIGHTFAIR, GE presented its prestigious 2010 GE Edison Award to Alexander Rotsch and Andreas Schulz of Licht Kunst Licht AG, a lighting design firm in Bonn, Germany. The pair was honored during a presentation in Philadelphia on May 16, 2011, for lighting the ThyssenKrupp Quarter in Essen, Germany, a global materials and technology group. [...]

Lighting Science Group Corporation recently notified the Department of Energy that it has developed with Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (LPI) a highly efficient, high output and low cost 60W replacement LED lamp, and will submit it for testing to win the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition. The bulb design is based on patented [...]

Peace Bomb, designed by Kevin Lee, an industrial design major at Pratt Institute, won first prize in New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s (IESNYC) annual student lighting competition. The winning project consisted of a paper cut-out in the shape of a cold-war era bomb that looks like a modern table lamp. When [...]

GE Lighting announced three finalists in its 28th annual international GE Edison Award competition today from the GE Lighting Institute, a teaching facility at the heart of GE Lighting’s Nela Park world headquarters in East Cleveland, Ohio. This year’s finalists represent lighting design innovations across corporate, retail and non-profit sectors, showcasing the importance of lighting [...]