Events
Circadian in the Workplace: Does It Make Sense…Yet?
When the job description suddenly includes ‘amateur biologist,’ lighting designers must be able to decipher the circadian lexicon for their clients By Rachel Fitzgerald and Katherine Stekr
Starving for Darkness
The human-centric focus on the impact of artificial light has overshadowed its effects on animals and plants By Jane Slade
Chaos Meets Cohesion
Festive lights in a structured grid at Santa Monica’s Colorado Esplanade provide a safer experience for bikers, pedestrians and drivers By Katie Nale If the Beach Boys were in their…
Opening Session Offers a Healthy Dose of Debate
The opening plenary session, “Healthy Light: What Do We Know That We Can Apply Now?” featured a panel including three researchers and a practitioner, moderated by Naomi Miller of the…
Replica Result
One lighting legend passes the baton to another on Denver's pedestrian mall By Paul Tarricone
Welcome To Their World
Eight simple rules for lighting specifiers when they sit down with the folks in IT By Scott Ziegenfus
DOE Announces Up to $15 Million for Early-Stage SSL Research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $15 million to conduct early-stage, innovative research to drive further breakthroughs in solid-state lighting (SSL) technology.
LRC’s Mark Rea Chair Task Group Developing Circadian Lighting Recommended Practice
Mark S. Rea, Professor of Architecture and Cognitive Sciences at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has agreed to chair a task group with Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Kansas City Convention Center Converts to LED
The Kansas City Convention Center has retrofitted all exhibit hall lighting by installing 850 new LED fixtures.
Our Work Is Done Here
The law of diminishing returns catches up to our energy codes. So what’s next? By James Benya
An Idea Blossoms
An R&D giant’s three businesses consolidate within a single headquarters that rejects the traditional notion of laboratory design. By Paul Tarricone
Speakers from Pixar and Sony to Keynote Lightfair
Danielle Feinberg of Pixar Animation Studios and Neri Oxman of Sony Corporation and MIT Media Lab will deliver keynote presentations at LIGHTFAIR International 2018.
LFI Program Features Seven Tracks and 70-Plus Courses
The 2018 LIGHTFAIR conference program includes more than 70 courses within seven educational tracks, for a total of more than 190 educational hours.
The Impact Speakers: Form, Function, Fashion
Designers Martin Lesjak and Anastasia Su are the 2018 LIGHTFAIR “Impact Speakers.”
Nixon’s New Perspective
A dramatic visual story at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum helps visitors examine a controversial legacy. By Vilma Barr