Work from home and hybrid work have shrunk the office real estate market and challenged employers to find new approaches to get workers back into the office. In response, employers are emphasizing culture, collaboration, and amenities that can’t be found in a home office. Here are 11 emerging office design trends: Free desking replaces assigned [...]

  Entertainment laser light shows are nothing new, but increasingly the laser projector technology developed for entertainment lighting is being adopted in architectural lighting. There are two fundamental ways of making white laser light sources. The first is combining at least three colored lasers, such as red, green, and blue. This is analogous to RGB [...]

By Nam Cho, Director of Advanced Development at Cooper Lighting Solutions Traditionally, lighting design could be considered a tedious process, often involving physical mockups, time-consuming calculations, and static renderings using multiple software tools. With advancing technology, these traditional methods are giving way to more sophisticated tools that enhance precision, speed, and visualization. On the downside, [...]

Chiara Carucci is the Founder and Principal Lighting Designer at Noctua, a unique lighting design firm focused on light & shade to preserve heritage sites and natural resources while enhancing visitors’ experience after dark. The Collepardo caves are a natural wonder in the Lazio region of Italy. Noctua was selected by the Lazio region to [...]

By Franco D’Ascanio, Founder of Coastal Source, Nick D’Ascanio, Landscape Architect, D’Asign Source and Franco D’Ascanio Jr., Architect and VP of Construction at D’Asign Source. The experience of outdoor lighting is undergoing a significant change, reframing the way lighting designers think about the outdoor space – as not one overarching space with uniform lighting needs [...]

  If you watched the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, earlier this month, you likely saw the spectacular Olympic cauldron carried aloft by a large hot air balloon. This cauldron was the first in Olympic history to fly, and the first to not use real fire. In fact, it’s faux flame was a combination of [...]

By Sanjit Bahra, Principal and Founder of DesignPlusLight Understanding human emotions and how they drive our decision-making is key to creating a successful hospitality brand. When we walk into a space, all of our senses are activated, and we make judgements using our senses. With human beings, 60% of the neocortex (perception part of the [...]

By The LIA & 42 Partners ltd A lot of photometric data in the form of LDT and IES files pass across our desks, the majority of them are problematic. Lighting designers use advanced tools like Relux and Dialux to produce incredibly detailed lighting designs with near photorealistic renderings of the lighting effects. They use [...]

  After the COVID-19 pandemic, most people don’t just work from home, nor just work from the office. The new normal is hybrid work, a combination of working from home and the office. This significant change in work behavior is impacting the design of office spaces. There is much more emphasis on collaboration spaces, as [...]