Industry News
Exploring Lighting Cultures
Philips Lighting interviewed some of the international lighting community’s most innovative designers. The topic? Light. Check it out here.
Emergence Light Installation at London Heathrow
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…
Do We Need New Color Metrics?
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…
Lighting’s Digital Makeover
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…
What the Heck is the Internet of Things, Anyway?
What’s the Internet of Things, and what does it mean? MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW has the answer here.
Career Opportunity: Industrial Designer, Mechanical Engineer for Kenall
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…
NEMA Launches New ANSI-accredited Lighting Systems Committee
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…
Product Monday: Tangent by Volkslyte
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…
State of Illumination 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…
Current Conditions EBCI Climbs for Second Month in a Row in August
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America climbed to 68.2 in August from 54.5 in July. Slightly less than half of the survey panelists reported…
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