The Illuminating Engineering Society recently published, Beyond 2030: What Do You See? This collection imagines what the state of the lighting industry will be in 2030, what our biggest challenges might be during this next decade, and how we should focus our energy in order to continue to move forward as an industry.

Clarion Events, owner of Revo, the organizer of LuxLive, the Lux Awards, and Lighting Design Awards, has announced that all its events are postponed indefinitely.

In this featured episode of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, hosts Greg Ehrich, LC, former President of NAILD and owner of Premier Lighting, and Michael Colligan, an entrepreneur and inventor, interview David Shiller, President of Lighting Solution Development and inventor of the GU24, about policy, socketed versus fixed luminaires, DC wiring, and where standards need to change.

The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) recently announced formation of a Light Usage for Night Applications (LUNA) Advisory Group as a first step toward development of a new program to recognize and promote luminaires that are both energy efficient and protect the night sky from light pollution.

Color Kinetics’ Color Kinetics OneSpace lighting panels are a modular system that can transform a ceiling of any size into a seamless, cohesive space. OneSpace gen2 arrives with all the building blocks required for simple on-site assembly, installation, and maintenance, including the light engine, controller, frames, and fabric.

David Morris was on the Cornish coast when he saw an astonishing sight: a ship seemingly floating in the air above the water.

The Light and Health Research Center now has an online presence with a section on its parent organization Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s website.

The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) recently surveyed lighting design business owners and principals about the COVID-19 crisis in May 2020 and October 2020. This survey was repeated in 2021 and posed questions for the January to March 2021 time frame. The result is a snapshot of the state of the lighting design profession in challenging times.

My most recent contribution to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talks about the smart building and lighting market and the commensurate increasing opportunity for electrical contractors to provide integration services or work with integrators.