Industry News
Distribution Consolidation Accelerates And Impacts Lighting
Electrical distributor consolidation is gradually redrawing the lighting market, and the effects are showing up in pricing, service, and channel strategy. With at least 125 U.S. electrical distributor acquisitions…
What Specifiers Need From Manufacturers
Digital marketing firm, Unframed Digital, has published a 2026 report, Transparency Wins The Spec: How Product Brands Build Designer Trust Online. The report is based on a survey of…
New Guide For Lighting Bridges
Color Kinetics (a Signify brand) has published a new application guide Illuminating Bridges. The Guide emphasizes that bridges are more than transport links, they are civic symbols, visual landmarks,…
What is Design For Manufacturing & Assembly (DFMA)?
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) is an engineering methodology that optimizes product design to minimize production costs and streamline assembly. By prioritizing how parts are made and put together early…
NLB AI Think Tank Report
The National Lighting Bureau held an AI Think Tank on April 13, 2026. It brought together a cross-section of industry leaders to examine a question rapidly shifting from theoretical…
Lighting In Trauma Informed Spaces
By Mariel Acevedo, MIES – ALR & Amanda Schaneman, MIES – ETC Trauma informed design (TID) is a newer form of practice in the architectural community. It’s been around…
“Dark Light” & “Dark Optics” Trend Delivers Low Glare
A strong trend at LEDucation in April was an emphasis on “dark light,” “dark optics,” and low-UGR performance, especially in specification-grade architectural fixtures. What began as a design preference…
Product Monday: Redefining Motorized Remote Control Fixtures
Motorized architectural lighting is undergoing a meaningful shift, driven by a factor that has historically constrained its adoption: fixture size. For decades, remote-controlled luminaires delivering full pan, tilt, and…
Copper Telephone Line Phase Out Impacts Emergency Lighting
The phase-out of POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) copper lines matters to the lighting industry mainly where lighting depends on legacy analog communications or building-life-safety infrastructure, not for everyday general…
“Big Light” Backlash Is Really A Light Distribution Problem
By Heesu Chung, Brand Lead, Warm by Design The consumer backlash against the “big light” is easy to dismiss as social-media shorthand, but the underlying issue is familiar to…
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