Awards

Sponsored by Acuity Brands, IES Lighten Up brings individuals within the design community together to engage, inspire and challenge one another to create a luminaire made from combining technology with everyday objects. This year, competitions are taking place in fourteen locations in the United States and Canada.

The IES Progress Committee is now accepting submissions for this year’s Progress Report. Early bird (with reduced rate) deadline is May 17, 2019; final deadline is May 31.

Forty-year-veteran lighting designer Kevan Shaw of Kevan Shaw Lighting Design recently received the first LIT Lifetime Achievement Award.

A signature program of the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC), the IESNYC Student Lighting Competition (SLC)recently announced the winners of the 2019 competition held on March 5 at 4W43. The event was an opportunity for the lighting and design community to see installations created by the next generation of lighting designers.

The LIT Lighting Design Awards recently announced the winners of its 2018 competition.

A winner of LEDs Magazine’s Sapphire Award, Fulham Co., Inc.’s EliteControl Power over Ethernet (PoE) 2-Channel LED Driver uses power delivered over an Ethernet cable and has two-channel output for color mixing.

LUX recently recognized the winners of the 2018 LUX Awards, including the most innovative lighting products, projects, and companies from 200 nominations.

The A’Design Award and Competition is an international design competition recognizing quality design. The 2018-19 winners will be announced April 15, 2019; until then, the lighting winners of 2017-18 are worth a look.

Submissions are now being accepted for the Illuminating Engineering Society’s 2019 Illumination Awards program via the program’s online portal.