The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) honored the finalists of the 2015 IES Illumination Awards and presented IES Society Awards for Technical and Service Achievement at the IES Annual Conference in Indianapolis, IN November 8 – 10. The IES Illumination Awards included five Awards of Distinction, ten Awards of Excellence, and four Special Citations. The Awards [...]

Eaton has announced that it’s now accepting entries for the 39th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. Professional and student entries can be submitted at The Lighting reSOURCE, Eaton’s new online informational hub. The competition deadline is January 20, 2016. The SOURCE Awards competition is open to all lighting designers, architects, engineers, professional designers [...]

You have a client opening a wine bar and restaurant in a major west coast city, and they want you to design a signature pendant to mount over the bar plus a complementary surface-mounted luminaire for the lounge area. What do you do? That was the challenge to students for the 2015 Robert Bruce Thompson [...]

The Community Lighting for the Urban Environment (CLUE) competition, aimed at students and emerging professionals and sponsored by Philips Lighting, is now welcoming submissions of projects and innovative ideas. Winners receive one of three grants totaling $8,500 and secure an expense-paid trip to LIGHTFAIR. Click here to learn more.

The 2016 Next Generation Luminaires Indoor Competition has officially launched. Online Intents to Submit are due on November 30, 2015, and the judging event will take place February 10–12, 2016. What’s new for 2016–the Indoor competition will be divided into two separate evaluations: * Application Focused Luminaire Evaluations will focus on a more limited range [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) recently announced the recipients of the 2015 Lumen Awards at the 47th annual Lumen Gala held on June 18, 2015. The Lumen Awards, which showcase excellence in lighting design, are the oldest international lighting awards. The award-winning projects were presented in three categories: the Lumen Award [...]

Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy The winners in the Indoor and Outdoor categories of the seventh annual Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition (NGL) were announced today at LIGHTFAIR® International in New York. Sponsored by DOE, the Illuminating [...]

The SOURCE Awards competition is an annual lighting competition, open to all design professionals, that recognizes excellence in designs that use Eaton’s luminaires in an interior or exterior project. A coincident student competition recognizes excellence in conceptual designs using the company’s products. Projects are judged on aesthetics, creative achievement, technical performance and the degree to [...]

The seventh annual Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Solid-State Lighting Design Competition has recognized 28 commercial LED indoor and outdoor lighting products for excellence. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Illuminating Engineering Society, and the International Association of Lighting Designers, NGL was launched in 2008 to encourage technical innovation and promote excellence in [...]