Lighting Design

Lighting Design, Products + Technology

Litecontrol Releases New “Light the Walls” Booklet

Litecontrol, a company I’m proud to call a client, has published a new brochure providing guidance to designers interested in perimeter lighting best practices and techniques to achieve architecturally attractive and visually comfortable spaces. Download the brochure here.

Awards, Lighting Design

IESNYC Announces 2010 Lumen Award Winners

See all the winners here.

Lighting Design

Architectural SSL Magazine Publishes “Hugo Boss Concept Store” Project Feature

Architectural SSL Magazine recently published an article I wrote about a new Hugo Boss concept store in New York City. The challenge was to create a dynamic visual environment to complement the bold and innovative fashions of Hugo Boss. For lighting designer A.J. Weissbard, this meant blending architectural retail lighting with theatrical lighting to create [...]

LED + SSL, Lighting Design

Architectural SSL Magazine Publishes “Rock Sugar” Project Feature

Architectural SSL recently published an article I wrote about Rock Sugar, a new 7,000+ sq.ft. Los Angeles restaurant offering Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Indonesian and East Indian food in opulent surroundings. The particular demands of the lighting design, coupled with strict requirements imposed by Title 24, disqualified many conventional lighting methods. Lighting designers Focus Lighting turned [...]

Awards, Lighting Design

Cooper Lighting Announces Winners of the SOURCE Awards

Cooper Lighting recently announced the winners of the 33rd Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The winners were recognized at LIGHTFAIR 2010 in Las Vegas at the Keynote Speaker luncheon on May 11 in front of an audience of 650 design professionals. Eight professional awards and five student awards were presented. Top honors in [...]

Education + Resources, Lighting Design

IALD Establishes Website Dedicated to Lighting Education

A new initiative of the IALD Education Trust Fund, www.learn2light.com provides an overview of the schools that offer programs in architectural lighting design, engineering or science. These programs offer at least a major or minor in architectural lighting.

Lighting Design

The Role Surfaces Play in Lighting Efficiency

Surfaces and objects in a space may be considered an extension of the lighting system. If light is not absorbed, it is reflected and transmitted with reduced intensity to other surfaces and objects, where it is absorbed, reflected and transmitted. All surfaces and objects in a space that reflect or transmit light can be considered [...]

Lighting Design

Example of Role Surfaces Play in Lighting Efficiency

This coefficient of utilization table is published for a given indirect general lighting product considered for installation in a room with a 20 percent floor reflectance, 30 percent ceiling reflectance and 50 percent wall reflectance. The room cavity, defined as the volume of space between the luminaires and the workplane, is 5 ft. high x [...]

Education + Resources, Lighting Design, Products + Technology

Electrical Contractor Magazine Publishes Feature on How to Read a Luminaire Photometric Report

Electrical Contractor Magazine recently published an article I wrote about how to read a luminaire photometric report, part 2 in a short 2-part series on lighting design basics. The article includes how photometric measurements are taken, what kind of useful outputs are generated, and how to read and interpret those outputs. Check it out here. [...]

Lighting Design, Lighting Industry

New York State Says Lighting Design Services Subject to State Sales Tax

From a recent email from the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD): Please be advised that the State of New York has determined that the lighting design services that our members typically provide to customers are subject to sales tax in New York. The Department’s conclusion applies to ANY lighting design firm providing services in [...]

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