Events
Besal Fund Awards $114,500 for 2024
The Robert J. Besal Memorial Education Fund, established in 1983 as a nonprofit trust and dedicated to the advancement of education in illuminating engineering disciplines, has awarded $114,500 to 17…
Tivoli Commits to Eco-Friendly Model
Tivoli, a leading LED lighting manufacturer with over 50 years of experience and known for its linear lighting options, has announced a stringent sustainability model to include Title 24 compliance,…
Galaxy Quest
Illuminating NASA’s Next-Generation Spacecraft Systems Despite science fiction tales of galaxies far, far away, the actual edge of space, known as the Von Karman Line, is only 62 miles above…
Investing in Innovation: BlackRock’s NYC Office
How does a global investment firm reimagine its corporate headquarters? For the BlackRock team, it started with an ambitious goal— co-locate its 4,000 New York City employees from three separate…
A Community Intertwined
Uspenska Square reconnects with Ukrainian culture Since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the industrial city of Dnipro has been the target of multiple missile attacks, damaging residential areas, Dnipro’s…
Shutter, Click, Snap: Part II
The Finishing Touches of a Great Architectural Lighting Photo Working as a lighting designer for two decades, I’ve built a career around creating lighting environments by blending light from various…
What a Wonderful World
Presenting “Seven Wonders of the Illuminated World” From “Ancient” to “Natural” and “New,” generations of people across the world have marveled at the various Wonders of the World. As such,…
ArchLIGHT Summit to Inspire Commercial and Architectural Lighting Community
The fourth annual ArchLIGHT Summit, taking place September 17-18, continues Dallas Market Center’s leadership in the lighting industry. For decades, the venue has hosted the semi-annual Lightovation, which is the…
Illuminating the Three Sisters Bridge, Pittsburgh PA
Illuminating an Historic Landmark The Three Sisters are three similar self-anchored suspension bridges built in the 1920s spanning the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The bridges have been given…
‘I Am Not the Storyteller Here’
A one-way bridge in Canada honors local Indigenous past How does society go back in time and right its social injustices? Can it? How does the modern design industry fit…
AMBI Top 5 Lighting Trends for 2024
AMBI, a seasoned marketing agency for the built environment helping design brands build unique identities, has released a new report outlining the five key lighting industry trends of the current…
ETC Opens Innovation Centre
ETC, a leader in events lighting technology, has opened a new Innovation Centre in Squamish, British Columbia, for the engineers behind the brand’s Echoflex wireless controls products. Manager of Project…
LuFu, New Awards Program
The Virtual Lighting Design (VLD) Community, a global virtual network that empowers, inspires and educates the lighting community, has teamed up with Zhu Rong Awards to create an entirely new…
On the Ecology of Lighting Design with Nancy Clanton
"It is so important to look at nature and figure out what is nature telling us,” says Nancy Clanton, PE, FIES, FIALD, LEED Fellow and CEO of sustainable lighting design…
Careers: Advice for Our Younger Selves
Lighting Professionals Speak From Experience We’ve all heard the old adage, “If I knew then what I know now….” Hindsight is 20/20, but it’s still a fascinating concept to many…