Lighting choices can affect how we perceive spaces, even the colors of objects and surfaces. As a result, lamp color characteristics are a critical factor in a wide range of spaces, from high-end retail, where merchandise must be presented as vibrant and in its true colors, to offices, where good lighting renders faces naturally and [...]
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Cloud by Focus Lighting
Another amazing project from the folks at Focus Lighting … As the entry piece at the Boffo Show House, Focus Lighting’s interactive installation – “Cloud” – unifies the four Show House experiences by ushering guests in with a veil of ever-changing color overhead. The LED nodes illuminating the 200 tubes and uplighting the ceiling above [...]
The Limits of BUG
Ian Ashdown, P. Eng., FIES, Senior Software Engineer for Lighting Analysts Inc., wrote an interesting whitepaper, Classifying Outdoor Luminaires: The Limits of BUG, available for free download here. The abstract: “The IES BUG rating system is useful for classifying outdoor luminaires when considering light trespass, sky glow, and glare in accordance with the Joint IDA-IES [...]
New Efficient Lighting and Controls Design Certification? Take the NALCAC Survey
Update: I’ve been hearing some people had problems opening the survey link. Not sure what the problem might be, but everything is testing out here on Windows 7 with both Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome. The link is https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NALCAC_JA_SURVEY. On behalf of the Lighting Controls Association, I have been supporting the efforts of an [...]
Retail Lighting Concepts by Focus Lighting
Focus Lighting posted this video showing different effects that can be achieved with light in product demonstration, using only a single DLP projector. (No effects or adjustments other than cross fades were added.) Says Focus: “Inspired by 3D projection on buildings, we’ve been experimenting with ways to use video in retail to bring products to [...]
Randall Whitehead on Kitchen Lighting
Terrific short video by Randall Whitehead, IALD describing good lighting design for the home kitchen.
Tips For Residential Bathroom Lighting
Check out this short article I produced for the IES Light Logic site on the topic of effective bathroom lighting.
UL Expands Capacity with New Lab
Underwriters Laboratories (UL), has opened a new 38,000 square-foot laboratory located in Allentown, PA. The Photometric Testing & Technology Center will be a testing and certification hub for all of North America. The lab conducts testing of lighting products to various global energy efficiency programs such as ENERGY STAR, DesignLights Consortium, Lighting Facts, Zhaga, California [...]
Creating Artificial Daylight for a Stage Production
Lighting designer David Warfel describes how he produced bright afternoon daylight for a theatrical production set in an English country house. The main challenge was to produce light with the appearance of “no color.” Click here to see how he did it. (The article appears on the Rosco website, as he used their products.)
ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING Covers New Lighting Design Credentialing Effort
The IALD is developing a new certification for lighting designers. By August, the credentialing task force will make a recommendation whether to proceed with a certification, which would then take an estimated 12-18 months to put into place. ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING recently published an excellent article on this topic, available here. Being Lighting Certified (LC), naturally [...]
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