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Achieving Equitable Indoor Lighting
Redesigning and rebalancing current approaches to lighting Everyone deserves good lighting, particularly indoors, where many of us spend most of our time. This may be a simple declaration, but in…
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A False Skylight — Oh là là!
Complex lighting in a French restaurant provides old-world charm with a modern twist Fancy a frite? Restaurant-goers need not fly to Paris—just to the Windy City’s Le Select, a French…
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Editor’s Note: Feels Like Home
I would like to begin my first column for LD+A by thanking the IES leadership team for the opportunity to serve such an accomplished and innovative membership Society. I previously spent more than 14 years…
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Carving Out the Christmas Classics
Gaylord Hotels’ ICE! brings a sparkle to the holiday season For more than 70 years, good ol’ Charlie Brown has suffered indignities such as Lucy repeatedly pulling a football away…
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Careers: If I Only Knew Eleven Things I Would Tell my 22-Year-Old Self
In talking with our esteemed Editor Paul Tarricone about this month’s column, he suggested writing a column about “building your brand,” and I thought it would be fun to put a bit of a spin…
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Hossley Lighting Opens New Warehouse
Hossley Lighting and Power Solutions, a Texas-based manufacturer representative agency for commercial and industrial lighting brands across much of the southern U.S., has announced the opening of a new 42,000-sq…
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Vantage Announces Keypad Alliance
Legrand’s lighting control brand, Vantage, has announced a strategic Keypad Alliance with luxury keypad manufacturers Meljac, Forbes & Lommax and Basalte to enhance interface flexibility for lighting designers. With this…
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L-Prize Winners, Phase Two
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced six winners of the Prototype Phase, the second phase, in the rigorous DOE Lighting Prize (L-Prize) competition in October. The competition is meant…
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A Geometric Design Creates a Stunning, Meaningful Office Space: A PureEdge Lighting Case Study
Location: Thielen & Green Office - Lino Lake, MN Lighting System: TruLine 1A Designer: Thielen & Green Architects Rep Agency: Davis and Associates Thielen and Green Architects needed to…
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Editor’s Note: Signing Off
In January 2003, I replied to an ad in The New York Times seeking an editor to run a monthly engineering magazine published by a professional society. In the blink…
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Wildlife: The Meaning of the Stars. What Does Humanity Lose When We Lose the Night Sky?
I have recently heard several oral traditions that were imbued with natural wisdom and valuable insights about the natural world. The first was that it is time to plant corn when…
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Rambusch at 125 and Counting
Almost everyone in the lighting business is aware of Rambusch’s specification-grade lighting products. Lesser known, perhaps, are its accomplishments as a restorer of historic fixtures for specific projects, and its talent in replicating fixtures and…
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Diversity: Quincy Drane and Madison Diaddezio
Youth Shall Be Served: Two Gen Z-ers discuss how DEIR principles can shape the profession CHANGING PERCEPTIONS Usually when I speak on why DEIR is important in the design industry,…
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Greece Children’s Library: A Fairytale for Budding Bookworms
When the town of Greece, New York, wanted to expand its public Children’s Library area, the owner and design team reached directly into the minds of young readers and pulled…
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IES ILLUMINATION AWARD OF MERIT | How They Did It: Area 15
John Levy Lighting Productions, Inc transformed a 126,000-sq ft warehouse-like space into a story-ready immersive retail, art and entertainment complex to earn a 2023 IES Illumination Award of Merit. The…