Interviews + Opinion

I recently had the opportunity to interview Kurt Vogel, Director, Product Development – Relight, Acuity Brands Lighting, for an article I wrote about the office building lighting upgrade market for The Electrical Distributor (TED) Magazine. The interview was extremely informative, and I wanted to share it with you complete here. DiLouie: How would you characterize [...]

Stephen Blackman, President and Chief Design Officer, BlackJack Lighting, recently published a whitepaper about OLED technology that really got me thinking about its design possibilities. I enjoyed the opportunity to interview him about his vision concerning the potential for OLED as a lighting technology. DiLouie: Why OLED? Blackman: OLED is a very exciting, up and [...]

I recently had the opportunity to interview Tony Sarti, Healthcare Sales Manager for Kenall Manufacturing, for an article I wrote about healthcare facilities lighting for The Electrical Distributor (TED) Magazine. The interview was extremely informative, and I wanted to share it with you complete here. DiLouie: How would you characterize healthcare facilities as a market [...]

I recently had the opportunity to interview Eric Snyder, marketing manager for Eaton’s Cooper Lighting Business, for an article I wrote about outdoor lighting for The Electrical Distributor (TED) Magazine. The interview was extremely informative, and I wanted to share it with you complete here. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* [...]

I recently had the opportunity to interview Jay Massa, regional sales manager for Kenall Lighting, for an article I wrote about senior facilities lighting for The Electrical Distributor (TED) Magazine. The interview was extremely informative, and I wanted to share it with you complete here. DiLouie: What are the major recent trends in how senior [...]

I recently interviewed Scott Roos, Vice President of Product Design for Juno Lighting Group about what’s new in residential lighting for an article I’m writing for TED Magazine. The transcript is below: DiLouie: What are the major recent trends in single-family residential construction and design, and how are they impacting lighting needs? Roos: Sustainable materials [...]

Mark Rea, Director of the Lighting Research Center, and Zia Eftekhar, former Chairman of Philips Lighting North America, recently sat down to discuss promoting the value of light to end-users. The resulting 30-minute conversation, focusing on how to measure the actual value of light using new value metrics and how to communicate this value to [...]

I’m an admirer of Dave Irvine-Halliday, founder of the Light Up The World Foundation, and had the opportunity to hear him speak at LIGHTFAIR and more recently here in Calgary, where he teaches. The Foundation provides market-based lighting solutions to regions of the world without easy access to electricity typically in the form of solar-powered [...]

This whitepaper, published on the Magnaray website, questions whether LED is superior than fluorescent for outdoor lighting applications, making a case for fluorescent.