It’s no secret that lighting designers must wear many hats, but according to the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), the actual number of those hats might surprise you. A review ...

Dimmers and control panels, task and accent lighting. The intricacies of lighting schemes may not seem as exciting as selecting that beautiful wall color from a peacock’s fan of paint chips, or match ...

Most lighting design articles seem to focus on lamp efficiency, lamp life, CRI, luminaire aesthetics, cost, and all the claimed benefits of one lamp compared to another. The one topic that always ...

Consumer demand and government initiatives to phase out inefficient lighting technologies are pushing expansion of LED lighting. Designers of these devices must satisfy not only end users, but also ...

Making your dining room too bright can ruin the vibe. It's a disappointing design mistake that can be remedied with layered ...

“Good architecture poorly lit is poor architecture.” Those are the words of a famous architecture critic, and they apply to almost any type of environment. We need light to see well enough to perform ...

It seems strange how often planning your bathroom lighting gets left as a bit of an afterthought given the huge role it plays ...

Nuance is key to lighting design for the designers we talked to, so likewise perfectly matching suites of fixtures are out. Tanner Morgan of Morgan Madison Design says sets like “all-brass everything” ...

Modern interior living environments’ fine-tuned lightscapes feature a delicate mix of ambient, task, and accent lighting to perfectly balance performance and pleasure. But one area of a home’s ...

The lighting of the iconic San Diego-Coronado Bridge will move into its second phase next week with nearly a half-million dollars allocated for detailed design work. The San Diego Unified Port ...