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IIDEX/NeoCon Canada in partnership with the Illuminating Engineering Society, Toronto Section (IES) will showcase the latest in interior, exterior, commercial and architectural lighting products plus lamps and lighting controls in 15,000 square feet of exposition space...

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has commissioned EPRI and the EPRI Lighting Research Office (EPRI LRO) to construct an international survey and database of lighting research currently underway around the world...

Bruce Munro is a London based artist that is renowned for his passion for light in all it’s forms. He sent us images of one of his latest designs called Snowball Chandelier that was installed at 64 Knightsbridge, London this October 2008...

Fisher Marantz Stone are the winners of recent Lumen Awards 2009 with the lighting design for Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Quatar...

Tillotson Design Associates received Feltman Awards of Excellence during this year’s Lumen Awards for their project Vera Wang Flagship Store. Its a 2000sqm big boutique in Manhattan, New York. ...

Jason Bruges Studio sent us images of Vestige - a project they completed recently. It is an interactive light installation at the entrance to the Leicester centre of the Performing Arts...

Focus Lighting received another Merit Award at Lumen Awards 2009. It is for lighting design for Royalton Hotel in New York/USA. Description as sent to us by Focus Lighting: — The iconic Royalton Hotel’s extensive renovation recreates a lush atmosphere for travelers and city-dwellers alike...

As the last of our articles on awardees of Merit Awards in this year’s Lumen Awards 2009 we present a project by Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design - Terminus 100...

Today we are publishing another inspiring project that won Lumen Award 2009 Merit Award - Casino of the Winds by Focus Lighting. A description by Focus Lighting follows: — The design at Casino of the Wind evokes a dreamy windswept landscape...

Lagotek Corporation a developer of building automation systems has announced an agreement with Advanced Control Technologies (ACT) - a specialist in wired and wireless control technologies...

Two new roadway and area lighting equipment standards—ANSI C136.25-2009 Ingress Protection (Resistance to Dust, Solid Objects, and Moisture) for Luminaire Enclosures and ANSI C136.35-2009 Luminaire Electrical Ancillary Devices (LEAD)—have been published by The National Electrical Manufacturers...

As the last in the Citation series of Lumen Awards 2009 we present New York City Waterfalls project for which the Lighting Design was done by Jaros, Baum & Bolles...

Tirschwell & Co. received Award of Merit in Lumen Awards 2009 for the lighting of Bar Bouloud in New York/USA. The project is a bar and a restaurant featuring warm pallete of colours and high vaulted ceiling...

TKTS Ticket Booth project by Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc received Lumen Citation for Integration of Light, Architecture and Signage in this year’s Lumen Awards 2009...

Lighting Design International sent us the project they completed recently for Hammerson Office - an European Real Estate company...

Winner of Lumen Citation for Merchandise Lighting in this year’s Lumen Awards is RS Lighting for the design they did for Elizabeth Arden Store in New York/USA...

Focus Lighting from New York/USA received Lumen Citation for Illumination for Restaurant Courtyard in Lumen Awards 2009 for the lighting of Rock Sugar Restaurant in Los Angeles/USA...

In a four-day workshop in Lüdenscheid, experienced architects and lighting designers from ERCO will be providing seminar participants with well-founded knowledge on lighting design and the perception of light, on light sources and on architectural, accent and ambient lighting...

Venture Lighting Institute 2009 is offering, “Retail & Display Metal Halide Systems.” This two-day class, held at VLI, Streetboro, OH, will cover: MR16 technologies in metal halide, track lighting systems, specification review on track metal halide, color and sight, application study on...

Matteo Messervy recently sent us images of his project for Alcatel-Lucent showroom in Paris/France. As it is a company specialising in communication technologies and multimedia the concept for design was ‘communication/connection’...

Mindseye Lighting completed lighting design for The Garden Museum in collaboration with Dow Jones Architects from London/UK. A Museum devoted to the art and history of gardening has been re-designed and re-housed inside a medieval church adjacent to Lambeth Palace on the River Thames in London...

Lumen Awards is one of the most prestigious Lighting Design Awards in the industry today...

An abstracted energy map of Sydney’s CBD, by an inspired team of young architects, has taken out the People’s Choice Award for the inaugural Smart Light Sydney Light Walk...

Berry van Egten from Berlux was the leader of group of workshop participants working on The Mill project as part of Alingsås workshop organised by PLDA every year. The concept as was written by the group: — “The Mill is reawakening...

LichtVision has sent us their award winning project - Information Center of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The Information Center describes the context and impact of the Holocaust and is designed as a guided tour through exhibition tours...

Recipients of 2009 IESNA awards for Lighting Design have been published. Among the recipients are Speirs and Major Associates, Licht Kunst Licht AG, Lightbrigade Architectural Lighting and others. You can find out more about the results here.

Aureo Lighting from Spain recently completed the lighting designe for Vicolungo Shopping Mall near Milan/Italy. On the contrary from the predominant approach to lighting of the shopping mall, this lighting scheme tries to resemble outdoor lighting in a residential neighbourhood...

Municipality of Koeln/Germany has undertaken extensive refurbishment of its public lighting system. Significant savings in energy consumption and therefore cost is planned due to changing to LED lighting technology in many urban and historic places in the city...

Pardon the image, we know it’ s a bit tacky, but it is followed by good news: it seems Lighting Design profession won’t be banned from State of Texas afterall. This can be attributed to persistent and succesful action of professional bodies of Lighting Design profession, especially IALD...

Following the light festivals that electrified the world in lyon, Glasgow and Libson, Jerusalem will become home to the biggest event in the field of Light-Art, from June 10-16...

First Solo Exhibition by United Visual Artists is on display in The Smithfield Gallery in London/UK. It is an exhibition of still images distilling their live creations into a single moment...

Society of Light and Lighting has extended the deadline for submission of papers for Young Lighter of the Year 2010 competition about which we reported here...

PSLAB from Beirut/Lebanon have sent us an inspiring set of images of the result of their recent collaboration with Piuarch from Milan/Italy...

Light!, a new expo and conference is arising. Light! will run alongside NeoCon® World’s Trade Fair from June 15 to 17 2009 at The Merchandise Mart in Chicago (IL) and will feature various lectures about light...

Technical University of Dresden together with Novaled AG reached 90lm/W at their at 1000cd/sqm. Even though significant technological improvements have to be made, these results showthat OLEDs will soon be available for lighting applications says Gildas Seorin, CEO of Novaled AG.

The focus of Luminaire 2010 will be the green belt around the city of Frankfurt. the park that is built in that area sits on the location of former city walls and was built around 200 years ago...

Even though we usually do not publish project that are more than 1 year old this is an exception. Light Cibles from France (founded by Louis Clair) sent us images of the lighting design they did for Notre Dame church in Paris/France together with Concepto (founded by Roger Narboni)...

Cinimod Studio is a cross-discipline London-based design practice specializing in architecture and lighting design, integrated and public artworks and interaction design. The studio was founded by Dominic Harris, an experienced Architect with a passion for interactive art and lighting design...

Les Eclairagistes Associes have sent us the project that was inaugarated on 23rd of May in Bordeaux / France. It is a lighting design for the left bank of Garonne river that is running through the city...

The SOURCE Awards is an annual competition sponsored by Cooper Lighting and is calling for entries. It is open to lighting designers, engineers, architects, professional designers and consultants who use Cooper Lighting fixtures in an interior or exterior design projects...

Collaboration between Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher once again resulted in an alluring design of Genesy lamp that was designed for Artemide...

Lighting Design International has sent us images of the Temple Church in London/UK that they recently did the lighting design for. It is a church built by the Knights Templars and was made famous by book Da Vinci Code. The brief was to refurbish and update all lighting to enhance the structure...

David Trubridge, industrial designer from New Zaeland displayed a light installation as part of Milan Design Week...

Lichtvision recently completed lighting design for Savings Bank Berchtesgadener Land. The design team focused on integration of light into architecture, visual comfort, zoning and the possibility of different light scenes...

Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) which is part of Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) is organising Young Lighter of the Year competition once again...

Welcome to the LED - Emotionalize your light - Idea Contest energized by OSRAM Become a member of the community and share your ideas and designs for LED light solutions - and win great prizes...

Lighting Design International has sent us images of Gleneagles Spa project they completed in the summer 2008. The spa has 20 treatment rooms and is part of the Gleneagles hotel in Auchterarder/Scotland...

The group of three designers Sven Jonke, Christoph Katzerand and Nikola Radeljkovič was formed in 1999. They have exercised their talents in a wide specter of design area ever since...

“You create, We Build” campaign by Millerbernd Lighting has set off with the launch of the new design competition at Light Fair 2009 in NYC...

Aureo Lighting from Spain recently participated in a lighting workshop organised during Week of Architecture conference in 2008 in Barcelona. They worked in Palau Robert building which is a two centuries old building used for temporary exhibitions...