Lighting Design

Speirs and Major Associates, a lighting design firm I particularly admire, was given well-deserved coverage in Metropolis Magazine recently. The article profiles the firm and reviews some of its notable projects, such as the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi and the Infinity Bridge in the United Kingdom.

Another installment in Rosco’s very clever marketing campaign showing how lighting designers used their products to solve challenging problems in theatrical lighting: Lighting designer Jeffrey E. Salzberg was engaged to light a collaborative theater piece combining puppets, aerialists and circus techniques. It also demanded compelling visual imagery to create the Sahara Desert, a sunrise and [...]

Home theaters are a popular addition to many homes, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, which estimated that by the end of 2004, one-third of U.S. households owned a home theater system, up from about one-fifth at the end of 1999. The addition of a home theater creates special demands on the lighting and controls. [...]

I love getting inside the heads of some of the country’s top lighting designers; one can learn a great deal in a short amount of time and, just as important, see things from a different perspective. Contract Magazine offers just such an opportunity in this great interview of lighting designer Leni Schwendinger.

I have just received a notice that submissions are now being accepted online for the 2010 IES Illumination Awards. The catch is the deadline is Friday, February 12, 2010. Better hurry! Visit the submission site now to submit your project.

Peerless has announced the start of AIA-approved Continuing Education Courses offered online at ArchitectCES.com. “Lighting for Learning,” which I was pleased to work with Peerless to produce, is the first on many courses to come that were designed by Peerless to help architects and lighting professionals learn best practices for lighting and controls. This sustainable [...]

Enjoy. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8003198&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1We Light London from d wythe, s neuman, s stammers on Vimeo.

Lighting designer Keith Parham shows us how color was used to create an uncomfortable atmosphere in his lighting of “Adding Machine: A Musical.” Check it out here.

The Wall Street Journal paints the International Dark Sky Association as Big Brother in Eric Felten’s opinion piece here. Once again, lighting takes a backseat to politics, but perhaps not in the way Felten thinks. In the lighting industry, we often hope for lighting issues to enter the public consciousness. But once they do, they [...]