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LED + SSL

DOE Publishes CALiPER Snapshot Report on LED Outdoor Area Lighting

Sep 25, 2014

The U.S. Department of Energy’s CALiPER program has released a Snapshot Report on LED outdoor area lighting. Based on LED Lighting Facts data through the second quarter of 2014, the…

Lighting Design

Exploring Lighting Cultures

Sep 24, 2014

Philips Lighting interviewed some of the international lighting community’s most innovative designers. The topic? Light. Check it out here.

Light + Art

Emergence Light Installation at London Heathrow

Sep 23, 2014

Cinimod Studio created an extraordinary LED light sculpture to entertain diners at Caviar House & Prunier at London Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2. The sculpture, titled “Emergence,” spirals 43 ft. toward…

Lighting Design

Do We Need New Color Metrics?

Sep 19, 2014

The proliferation of solid-state light sources has highlighted the limitations of the CRI metric as a predictor that fully represents how people perceive color. This article in ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING describes…

LED + SSL, Products + Technology

Lighting’s Digital Makeover

Sep 18, 2014

MIT Technology Review recently published an article about how Lighting and the Internet are merging, and what that means. I found this excerpt to be of particular interest: “Another look…

Products + Technology

What the Heck is the Internet of Things, Anyway?

Sep 17, 2014

What’s the Internet of Things, and what does it mean? MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW has the answer here.

Lighting Industry

Career Opportunity: Industrial Designer, Mechanical Engineer for Kenall

Sep 16, 2014

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT Industrial Designer, Mechanical Engineer As Kenall’s Industrial Designer/ME you will research, conceptualize and develop new state of the art lighting products. The ideal candidate will be able to…

Codes + Standards

NEMA Launches New ANSI-accredited Lighting Systems Committee

Sep 16, 2014

In what is surely a sign of the times, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) recently announced the new ASC 137 Lighting Systems Committee. This committee has received approval from…

Products + Technology

Product Monday: Tangent by Volkslyte

Sep 15, 2014

Volkslyte’s Tangent is a 2-in.-wide luminaire available in suspended downlight and uplight/downlight as well as surface-mounted and recessed configurations. Volkslyte factory-curves the extruded aluminum profile to almost any radius or…

Lighting Industry

State of Illumination 2014

Sep 12, 2014

Below is an article I contributed to the June issue of TED Magazine, reprinted with permission: The American Institute of Architects’ Consensus Construction Forecast predicted nonresidential construction spending to increase…

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