Awards

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. [...]

Peerless Lighting’s Open LED Luminaire was recognized at the 2014 LIGHTFAIR International Innovation Awards competition for the Most Innovative Product of the Year award. Open luminaires from Peerless use constructive occlusion to reflect and diffuse LED light across an inner arch and back down to produce soft, comfortable illumination from a lens-free linear form. Open [...]

The 2013 GE Edison Award was presented to Robert Shook, Maureen Mahr, Jennifer Curtis and Kimberley Corbett-Oates of Schuler Shook (Chicago, Illinois, USA) for lighting City Performance Hall in Dallas, Texas, USA. A personalized Steuben crystal award for the winner of this 31st annual lighting design competition was presented by GE Lighting on June 2, [...]

The current competition for the indoor lighting product category for the Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition has been extended: MAY 23, 2014: Written Intents to Submit due online at www.ngldc.org JUNE 30, 2014: Product entries due Judging will take place in early August, and the winners will be announced at the LED Show in September. [...]

Out of an unprecedented 160 student submissions from the New York City-area, “Livre Noir,” designed by Esli Teker, attending Parsons The New School of Design, won First Prize in the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) 14th annual Student Lighting Competition. Teker’s project, “Livre Noir,” can be described as a book that’s full [...]

The Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition (NGLDC) recently announced the outdoor category winners for the 2013 competition. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Association of Lighting Designers, the NGLDC was created to recognize and promote excellence in commercial LED lighting products. In 2012, the competition began evaluating [...]

Eaton’s Cooper Lighting division is sponsoring the Outdoor Lighting Design Award for the 2014 Illuminating Engineering Society’s (IES) Illumination Awards program. The Outdoor Lighting Design Award recognizes excellence in lighting design and application in all aspects of exterior lighting. The Outdoor Lighting Design Award celebrates achievements in aesthetics, applied technical acumen, creative solutions to demanding [...]

Lighting for Tomorrow, the annual design competition for energy-efficient residential lighting products, has launched its 12th consecutive annual competition. This year, Lighting for Tomorrow is looking for products that meet market price points as part of the solid-state lighting competition such as light emitting diode (LED) A-lamps under $10 and luminaires under $50, as well [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC), the largest section in the Society, has announced a call for submissions to the 2014 Lumen Awards. The Lumen Awards recognize excellence, ingenuity, and professionalism in lighting design and winners are lauded at the Lumen Awards Gala. Submissions are open till February 14, 2014. The awards [...]