Dominic Meyrick
Comparatively speaking
Judgements about what is ‘good quality’ lighting are subjective and change over time and with experience. Part of the lighting designer’s task is to compare and contrast the available options, writes Dominic Meyrick
The UK is skimping on design
Apart from an enclave in the South East, UK construction clients remain largely ignorant of the value lighting design can add to their projects. We have to work hard to convince them otherwise, writes Dominic Meyrick
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
Loving the alien
Today’s low-energy lighting technologies are challenging the conventionally accepted standards of what constitutes ‘white’ light and users will take time to get used to the changing ambience, writes Dominic Meyrick
We evolved in greener shades
Lighting designers could make better use of natural light patterns for reasons rooted deeply in human evolution, and the new British Standard on lighting of workplaces helps them to do just that
Home sweet home
The UK is a nation of owner occupiers, not tenants. Dominic Meyrick, principal, Hoare Lea Lighting, asks, why we don’t take more interest in how our homes are lit
Small is beautiful
Looking at the book Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (by E F Schumacher), Dominic Meyrick is wondering if ‘small’ is always beautiful and therefore ’big’ always ugly
A designer’s lament
So LEDs are going to save us! Well, thank goodness for that because something had to, writes Dominic Meyrick, principal, Hoare Lea Lighting
