Products + Technology

Even as the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes LEDs as the single most significant and disruptive energy-efficient lighting solution of today, scientists around the world continue to search for a better light bulb. Enter carbon electronics. Scientists from Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new type of energy-efficient flat light source based on [...]

Prudential’s Stream provides a slot lighting option with a “barely there” presence that radiates light seemingly from nowhere. Luminaires can be joined, without seams, for an uninterrupted line of light. No lens. Trimless mud-over flange for a sleek and minimalist fit. Click here to learn more.

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 [...]

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING recently published an article by Alice Liao, whom I had the pleasure of working with back when I ran the magazine, that describes the importance of luminaire optics in capturing the true light and energy savings potential of the LED light source. Click here to read, “LEDs: Understanding Optical Performance.”

Architectural Area Lighting’s (AAL) KicK is an aesthetically distinctive site and area lighting luminaire that angles light upwards yet provides full light cutoff. The pedestrian-scale luminaire is targeted to walkway, path and building entrance applications. The design hides the LEDs when viewed from behind. The optical system delivers 12,880 lumens at 99 lumens/W with 0% [...]

Acuity Brands, Inc. recently introduced Winona FORMS LED architectural solutions from Winona Lighting. New traditional, transitional and contemporary styles are offered in a variety of complementary architectural shapes across the brand’s pendant, ceiling-mount and wall sconce portfolio. Winona has engineered a unique, patent-pending Form Analogous (FA) Optical System(tm) to fully optimize the potential of LED [...]

USAI Lighting’s Color Select is a proprietary LED technology that offers a wide range of tunable white light for the architectural lighting market, with independent control of color temperature and intensity. Available in USAI’s BeveLED 2.0 luminaires, it can be adjusted from a candlelight-like 2200K to a 6000K that’s comparable to bright daylight, and from [...]

VCC, a provider of indication and specialty illumination solutions, offers advanced design services that include LED light modeling and human vision simulation that predicts light behavior and provides a complete analysis of all photometric and colorimetric characteristics of any product design. By combining cross section, contrast, iso-curves, spectral and chromaticity coordinates for analysis, VCC can [...]

Philips Lighting has flattened the downlight with the introduction of the Philips SlimSurface LED family of downlights. Providing the illusion of recessed downlighting, but with just a 5/8” surface mount design that is nearly flush with the ceiling, SlimSurface allows lighting to be installed in locations where wall and ceiling clearance can be an issue, [...]