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A Shire Thing
Crafting a magical design journey through Hobbiton When visitors step from their tourist coaches onto the rolling hills of Hobbiton in Matamata, New Zealand, they enter a land that has…
Sightlines: Best Practices — Starting an IES Student Chapter
Beginning in the summer before my final year at Oregon State University (OSU), I decided to start an IES Student Chapter, as our university had never had one before. This…
Careers: Recruitment Faux Pas
Recruitment Faux Pas: When hiring turns into self-sabotage In LD+A, July 2025, I wrote about the tides shifting toward a more balanced job market; course correcting from the hyper candidate-driven…
Gaming the System
An office for fun, innovation, and community In the heart of downtown Vancouver, Canada, the rapidly expanding mobile entertainment company Kabam sought to create an office environment that was as…
Research: How Can Lighting Enhance Your Perceptual Music Listening Experience?
Music listening experiences can be strongly influenced by the surrounding environment. A recent study conducted by researchers at Arizona State University and the California Lighting Technology Center at the University…
Project In Pictures: Pump Up the Jam
The AO Arena in Manchester, England, one of Europe’s biggest music venues since the mid-1990s, featuring Pop headliners like Lorde and Katy Perry in 2025, underwent significant redevelopment to offer…
Revolutionary 360 Solar: Off-Grid Lighting Powered by Innovation
Performance and aesthetics are often treated as trade-offs in lighting design, with efficiency on one side and visual appeal on the other. With 360 Solar by Landscape Forms, that compromise…
Let There Be Night
The outdoor lighting revolution is underway I’ve always been drawn into the dark. Even before working at DarkSky International, I often found myself getting up before sunrise for morning runs…
Project In Pictures: Who Says You Have to Leave the Park After Sunset?
Sometimes designing lighting isn’t only about providing illumination, but how to celebrate the darkness that surrounds it. The recreation project at Squamish Oceanfront Park in The Great White North’s British…
Heart of Darkness
Can one man help the U.S.’s most densely populated state “see the night?” Back in 2002, Verizon’s “Test Man” character shot to popularity with a series of commercials, where he…
Dark Places
As astrotourism trends, responsible lighting is essential As an astrophotographer, I’ve circled the globe in search of dark skies, from hunting the Northern Lights on sheep farms in Greenland to…
METROPOLIS Editor-in-Chief Avinash Rajagopal to Give Keynote at January 10-13 Lightovation Show
Dallas Market Center will present a top-tier lineup of thought leaders at the January 10–13, 2026 edition of Lightovation, building on the success of the debut Design + Build Day…
Speaking Native Architectural Language
Indigenous culture, nature, and light converge at Indian Community School Indian Community School’s lighting retrofit stands as a testament to the power of design in educational environments. Located in Franklin,…
Education: Shared Foundation
Science is the backbone of our industry In my LD+A May 2025 column, I called attention to the increasingly fractured landscape of organizations in the lighting industry. Since then, the…
Research: Designing Custom Solutions with UV LEDs
High-density LED Arrays, Power, and Thermal Management Solutions An effort to phase out mercury-based lamps and deploy energy-efficient UV light sources is driving considerable growth in the UV LED market.1…