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How many designers does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: Does it have to be a light bulb?
All innovations that scale are the result of constellations of many interconnected factors, not necessarily technical and not necessarily even new.
In the lighting industry, we suffer from a collective lapse of imagination – where are the real innovations driven by the most compelling capabilities of SSL?
Light is a dance with architecture—and daylight is perhaps the best place to start.
Exactly when did lighting designers consent to allow themselves to be referred to as “specifiers,” the ones who simply pick lighting equipment?
You just need a big Goldilocks button labeled “Just Right” that lets you get some work done, instead of worrying about controlling your building controls.
The first principle of residential lighting — illuminating people — is the real “human-centric lighting.” It’s not only about how light makes you feel, but about how it makes you look.
An excerpt from Beautiful Light explores how the changing meaning of ‘home’ is reflected in how we ply our craft.
Lisa Heschong’s Visual Delight in Architecture: Daylight, Vision, and View is possibly the most significant book on architecture and lighting of the past two decades.
Recent interest in UV-C LEDs is driven by health concerns, but the market outlook and application of these solutions appears to be up for debate.
Strategies in LIght co-chair CLIFTON STANLEY LEMON tears down the smart building façade and exposes the fundamental need for lighting controls to support integrated intelligence.
I’m curious about product lifetimes, the need to rebuild the electrical infrastructure; and the tension between modularity and “seamless” solutions.
Architecture can transform daylight and electric light into much more than just a ‘building system.’ Here are some examples from across the centuries.
Clifton Stanley Lemon brings a significant debate about SSL form factors to the fore of the discussion.
Strategies in Light game show reveals just how complex SSL issues – connected lighting, color tuning, metrics, and controls– are, even for experts.
IoT technology is being deployed on top of lighting in buildings, and we’re desperately trying to understand and predict the effects of the collision between consumer electronics and commercial and industrial building controls.
Initial predictions of the impact of new technologies are are almost always wrong but may contain a grain of truth. Often it’s simply a matter of timing.
Many new analytic tools promise to improve productivity, but productivity in today’s office environment is persistently difficult to measure and manage, as it has been for decades.
A promising and surprising trend uncovered by embedded sensor and analytics systems like Enlighted’s Space application.
Economically and culturally the building industry is roughly divided into two camps – “outside the envelope,” mostly publicly owned, and “inside the envelope,” mostly privately owned.
IES San Francisco Section presents Angela McDonald and Faith Jewell of HLB Lighting Design - Elevating Brand Experience: Lighting Techniques.
As lighting is getting more energy efficient and the cost of new lighting technology is dropping, light is getting bluer. This is often generally not a good thing, for many reasons.
IT and automation makes transactions “frictionless,” but companies use it to cut costs, de-personalize experience, and overload us with an invasive, irritating, at times simply immoral global tsunami of spam.
We hear a lot lately about Net Zero buildings that produce as much energy as they consume, and as we extend this idea to cities, energy efficiency will continue to be a crucial part of our future.
Sustainable design practitioners often forget important non-energy benefits, but these benefits are crucial to improving efficiency and attacking climate change.
With buildings we must act locally, get our hands dirty, and make things that are visible, complex, problematic, social, transformative, and an integral part of our natural habitat- the built environment.
In the light of the upcoming Paris negotiations in climate change, it's obvious that our efforts may fall short. How can lighting and building design professionals learn to make a difference in climate change?
How does lighting affect emotion? Stores may eventually be able to understand your emotions and communicate with you to help you feel good and make smarter purchases, not just spam you to death.
In the lighting industry we expect the future to be driven by technology innovation alone. Future Proofing? We can’t even “present-proof.”