Lighting Design

This time-lapse video reveals lighting techniques used to light the gilded age galleries at the Smithsonian Art Museum. By turning lights ON one layer at a time, the layers and their purpose are revealed.

The Lunder Conservation Center held a one-day symposium on LED lighting in museums in March 2013, which included a series of presentations by museum and lighting specialists. Here’s Gordon Anson, chief lighting designer for the National Gallery of Art.

The Lunder Conservation Center held a one-day symposium on LED lighting in museums in March 2013, which included a series of presentations by museum and lighting specialists. Here’s Naomi Miller of PNNL.

The Lunder Conservation Center held a one-day symposium on LED lighting in museums in March 2013, which included a series of presentations by museum and lighting specialists. Here’s Scott Rosenfeld, lighting designer with the American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery.

I contributed a special feature on home lighting design to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR’s March issue: “Residential interior lighting is as much art as science. A good residential lighting design is functional and comfortable, blends with the architecture and decor, and helps the owner personalize their home. The result is experienced as work, leisure, living, showcase, castle [...]

The relationship between lighting and productivity has been the subject of study for almost 100 years, but determining a definitive, quantifiable relationship remains elusive. That was the consensus of a three-person Light and Productivity panel of experts assembled by the National Lighting Bureau as part of its annual forum conducted in conjunction with the EdisonReport. [...]

The California Lighting Technology Center has developed the High-Efficacy Residential Lighting Guide to provide information about lighting products and key lighting principles and best practice recommendations. Download the guide here.

The Illuminating Engineering Society has published an introductory e-textbook on lighting, ARCHITECTURE FOR LIGHT by Kim and Paul Mercier. ARCHITECTURE FOR LIGHT is intended for upper level undergraduate or continuing education courses for students of architecture and interior design. The book can also be a resource for architects and interior designers or lighting professionals looking [...]

In this Philips Lighting education video, Mark Roush describes the lighting design process.