I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jeannine Fisher Wang, PE, LC – Director Business Development, Acuity Brands. The topic: OLED lighting–where it is now, where it’s going. I’m happy to share her responses with you here. The interview informed an article I wrote for the November issue of tED. DiLouie: How would you characterize [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society recently announced the retirement of Rita Harrold, Director of Technology. I was pleased to work with Rita on the development of various IES publications. Her shoes are going to be very hard to fill. Wishing her the absolute best in her next stage of life. Rita was the first woman elected [...]

Lumec.com recently published an interview with lighting designer Galina Zbrizher of Total Lighting Solutions in Vancouver. Galina had a number of interesting observations about lighting, one of the most salient being the amount of consideration LEDs require to produce an effective design. She says: “I find that more attention is needed when designing with LED [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society recently promoted Paul Tarricone as Publisher of the Society’s magazine, LD+A. Paul and I go back to our Miller Freeman days, when I was publisher of Architectural Lighting and he of Facilities Design & Management. Under his management, LD+A has become a must-read for lighting professionals with an excellent line-up columnists. [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society has announced the retirement of William (Bill) Hanley, Executive Vice President. Mr. Hanley, who served as chief of staff starting in 1988, is the longest serving head-of-staff since the founding of the IES in 1906. His retirement is effective December 31. Mr. Hanley is credited with taking the IES from near [...]

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Bailey, LC, LEED AP BD+C, DDI, MIES, Director, Lighting Solutions Center, Hubbell Lighting, for an article I’m writing for TED Magazine about how solid-state lighting is impacting luminaire design. I’m happy to share it with you here. DiLouie: How would you characterize demand for LED luminaires in [...]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University, Japan; and Shuji Nakamura, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA and one of the founders of Soraa, Inc. for “the invention of efficient [...]

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING recently published a series of video interviews with some of the lighting industry’s top executives. Check it out here.

The Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund (JSSF) is a UK-registered charity which provides support to students of architecture who wish to enter the architectural lighting design profession. It has been set up at the request of the late Jonathan Speirs, who passed away two years ago, on June 18. The aim of the charity is to [...]