Lighting
March 2011
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Abacus land contract to supply Kent County Cricket Club
Abacus Lighting has signed a contract to supply and install floodlighting at Kent County Cricket Club. -
Award winners celebrate in style
Quotes from the winners are starting to filter through as the industry begins to recover from this year’s Lighting Design Awards. -
Euroshop virgins...
It was our first ever visit to Euroshop. Of course we’d heard of it before but it was never really on the radar - Light & Building or EuroLuce combined with Light Fair were always enough for one year -
'Free' lamps on offer from Totalight
Totalight is pioneeering a new funding model for retrofit by giving away free LED lamps in return for the savings they generate -
Good lighting rings the tills
The commercial benefits of good lighting in a retail environment cannot be underestimated – although they are often difficult to quantify. Andy Pearson reports -
In search of the green light
There is more to sustainability than the energy consumption of the lamp, but how easy is it to get hold of data on the embodied energy of the luminaire itself, the transport energy of importing from abroad and the recyclability of components? Andrew Brister reports -
Kinetica Art Fair packed with highlights
Despite the unassuming entrance down some fire escape stairs into what appears to be an underground club, the opening of Kinetica Art Fair on 3 February was absolutely rammed. -
Lighting Design Awards 2011
Last night the best of the lighting industry joined together for a night of celebration at the London Hilton, Park Lane for the 2011 Lighting Design Awards. -
Lighting Design Awards 2011: special supplement and video
Watch the video then read our special commemorative supplement for this year’s Lighting Design Awards -
Painting by numbers
Sorry to keep going on about my family, but one of the raging debates in our house is about Photoshop and whether it’s a creative tool or a tool with so many preset functions that creativity is manipulated by the initial programmer’s presets. -
Plumen wins Brit Insurance Design of the Year
Hulger’s redesign of the compact fluorescent lamp has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011 -
Recolight recycle 100 million lamps
Recolight has reached the milestone of recycling 100 million lamps. -
Scary biker
ACDC’s Gareth Frankland wondered what he’d let himself in for when his marketing team sponsored him to take part in a ‘stunt’ with editor Ben Cronin at the 2011 Lighting Design Awards -
The cat’s whiskers
This month I write my column fresh from having sat down with the judges to decide on the project winners for this year’s Lighting Design Awards. -
When we discussed it, I truly thought it was ok...
I was seduced by the sparkle and jewel-like quality that the sweets produced. I thought we had hit on a winner – Fox’s glacier mints masquerading as crystal.
