Industry News
Product Monday: Stream Dots by Prudential
Prudential Lighting’s Stream Dots, an expansion of the company’s Stream Series, are luminaires featuring hidden LEDs, creating a soft, clean light. Designed to be installed in graphic patterns on walls…
Sapphire Awards Recognize LED Excellence
Strategies in Light (February 13-15 in Long Beach) was a terrific conference this year. With so much conversation and focus on the Internet of Things, sometimes it felt like I…
Fine-Tuning the Characterization of Color Rendition with Chroma Shift and Gamut Shape
To help the lighting industry develop and implement new color-rendering methods and metrics that address the shortcomings of the commonly used CRI metric, the U.S. Department of Energy conducts research…
First Annual LIT Design Awards Announces Winners
LIT Design Awards has announced the winners of its first annual International Competition for Lighting Product Design and Implementation. Studio Roosegaarde was honored as LIT Lighting Designer of the Year…
Light Art Distinguishes Chicago Building
Created by ESI Design, a New York City-based studio, a novel light art installation creates a wide range of lighting animations on the building front of 1 North Dearborn. Using…
Product Monday: Connected Smart T8 Lamps by Lunera
Lunera’s connected Smart T8 Lamp, coupled with the company’s Cloud-based Ambient Compute Platform, offers a connected TLED solution. The Smart T8 delivers energy savings through its integration of LED technology,…
LEDucation 2018 Marks Record Attendance
The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY) recently held its annual solid-state lighting (SSL) tradeshow, LEDucation, in New York City at the New York Midtown Hilton. Marking its 12th…
LRC Releases Video Series on Light and Health
The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently released a series of short videos on the science of lighting for human health. • Circadian Rhythms. A brief overview…
BriteSwitch Reveals 2018 Rebate Trends
BriteSwitch recently sent out an email identifying four key lighting rebate trends, summarized here: #1 LED Rebate Amounts Start to Level Out LED rebates have decreased 10-20% due to price…
Philips Lighting to Change Name to Signify
Philips Lighting recently announced announced its intention to change its name from Philips Lighting to Signify. In a press release, the company stated, “The choice of our new company name…
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