Blogs
Sharon Stammers and Martin Lupton report back from their travels
Licht Festival Gent...
As veteran light festival goers, and serial complainers about their content and lack of direction, we are delighted to report that we have just returned from an excellent one!
Cardboard creation
Fresh with the glow of our recent foray into designing with cardboard, and having found W.H Skinner, a company who can make our cardboard dreams come true, we embarked on our next card creation
Dominic Meyrick, principal, Hoare Lea Lighting
Why is simple so complicated?
As energy-saving technology in the lighting field becomes ever more sophisticated, we need to look much harder at making both its operation and its benefits clearer to the user, writes Dominic Meyrick
The art of communication
Dominic Meyrick’s New Year’s resolution is to get the lighting industry speaking with one voice to get across the message to the construction industry and clients that good lighting belongs at the core of building design
When is lighting a work of art?
Creativity is highly prized in lighting design and is often thought of as ‘artistry’, while recognised artists work with light, further blurring theboundaries between art and design. Dominic Meyrick studies the hazy distinctions
Iain Ruxton, design associate, Spiers and Major
That's entertainment
Iain Ruxton went along to the recent PLASA show to catch up on the entertainment lighting sector. Here he picks out some new products with architectural applications
Here be giants
Speirs and Major’s Iain Ruxton considers some of the big players in the world of lighting and some of the even bigger players that might be on their way…
Easily MisLED
Manufacturers look away now. Speirs and Major’s Iain Ruxton is angry. Here he bemoans the use of the word ‘unique’ in the standard LED luminaire sales pitch
Ben Cronin, editor, Lighting
Low energy, not low quality
In February 2009, in the teeth of the global financial crisis, the Australian government announced it was making $2.7 billion of public money available to insulate the roofs of 2.7 million homes. On paper it seemed like a brilliantly conceived economic stimulus package with a number of advantages
What Jobs can teach lighting
When Steve Jobs died recently, it was easy to speculate that his demise would have resonated with the lighting industry more than most. Perhaps it was the way his products melded engineering with beautiful aesthetics, or his talent for delivering watershed technology, but it would take an unimaginative manager or product designer not to wonder what the man in the turtleneck would have done for lighting
The energy story
We went to press this month just as news reached us of the sad demise of Elite Lighting Solutions and lower than expected growth in the lighting division at Philips
