At LIGHTFAIR, Cooper Lighting announced the winners of the 37th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition.

The annual competition, which began in 1977, focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element in design and requires the predominant use of lighting and controls products from Eaton’s Cooper Lighting business. Entries are judged on the blending of aesthetics, creative achievement, technical performance and the degree in which the lighting meets the project constraints and design concept goals.

The 2014 winners include:

Professional Residential Category
• Winner: Robert Singer and Associates, Inc., Basalt, Colorado, and designers Robert Singer, Kim Quint and Jason Diaz for the lighting design of the Morningstar Residence, Aspen, Colorado.

Professional Commercial Category
• Winner: Ross De Alessi Lighting Design, Seattle, Washington, and the design team of Ross De Alessi, Norm Spencer and Neil Reeder for the lighting of The Gallery at the Historic Museum of Natural History Restoration Hardware store in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Honorable Mention: GWA Lighting, Narberth, Pennsylvania, and the team of Mark Harris, Anne Flaherty and Ryan Linton for the Omni Convention Center and Country Music Hall of Fame Expansion project in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Awards of Recognition: Tec Studio Inc., Columbus, Ohio, and designer Ardra Paige Zinkon for the lighting design of the Cuyahoga County Public Library – Garfield Heights Branch, Garfield Heights, Ohio; and Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, Inc., Culver City, California, and designers E. Teal Brogden, HT Tina Aghassian, Clifton Manahan, Jae Yong Suk and Alexis Schlemer for the curbside lighting enhancements project at the LAX Tom Bradley International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

Student Category
• Winner: Hazel Chang from Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, for her conceptual lighting design restaurant project, titled Light the Carnivore Restaurant on Fire. Chang was under the direction of Jeanne Mercer-Ballard, associate professor of the Interior Design Program at Appalachian Sate University.
• Honorable Mentions: Rachel Harris and Courtenay Wright from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, for their historical preservation project of the First German Reform Church, titled Rock Hallelujah; Juan Acosta and Michael Hawkins from Parsons The New School for Design, New York, New York, won for their conceptual lighting design project of the Light and Dark Institute’s corporate building, titled The Light and Dark Institute; and Jiyoung Bae, also from Parsons The New School for Design, was awarded for her commercial building that functions as a light lab, exhibition and educational space, titled Reaching for the Sky. Harris and Wright were under the direction of Brian Davies, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP), while Acosta, Hawkins and Bae were under the direction of Derek Porter, associate professor and director of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Lighting Design program at Parsons.
• Award of Recognition: Kayla Johnson from University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, won for her conceptual lighting design of her Ideaology corporate office. Kayla was under the direction of Dr. Nam-Kyu Park, associate professor in the Department of Interior Design at the University of Florida’s College of Design, Construction and Planning.

Professional winners Robert Singer and Associates, Inc. and Ross De Alessi Lighting Design each received a $2,000 monetary award. Student winner Chang received $1,500 and each of the other Honorable Mention students was awarded $500. All winners were presented with a crystal trophy and offered an invitation to attend a complimentary class at the SOURCE, the Lighting business’ state-of-the-art education center located at the company’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia. The students’ instructors are also invited to attend a class.

Cooper is now accepting entries for the 38th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. Entries must be postmarked on or before January 30, 2015, and winners will be announced in May 2015 at LIGHTFAIR in New York City. There will be no minimum or maximum number of awards given, as each project will be judged on its own merit. Selected entries will earn the distinction of Winner, Honorable Mention or Award of Recognition.

Click here to learn more about the winning entries and to learn about next year’s competition.

Craig DiLouie

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