Holiday Lights Across America: 2023-2024 Festivals of Light
“Holiday lights” is a generic term that refers to the various electrical lighting extravaganzas everyone enjoys. Every year’s final weeks become an occasion to showcase nighttime lights. Seeing and beholding these country and city lights doesn’t always mean you have to be there. Certain lighting festival websites feature still and motion pictures—
Holiday Lights Across America: Commercial Light Displays 2022
This is the second of two lighting-themed articles about indulging in the magic of colorful, twinkling lights at Christmastime. As a generic term, holiday lights refers to various electrical lighting extravaganzas. But light displays during a year’s final weeks originate with celebrating Christmas with commercial displays. Festive lighting after Thanksgiv
Lights Across America: Chicago
This is the first of a series of field reports on lighting, design and architecture across the United States of America. We start in America’s great architecture and design center, Chicago, Illinois. The Windy City has much to offer in lighting. In fact, its legendary art institute’s a fabulous place to start in any season. […]
The Art of Lighting Art
Choosing the right lighting for any space can be a complex decision. Considerations need to be made with respect to the purpose, form and function of the lighting application. Design and aesthetics also play a role in the equation. With so many options for lighting on the market, it takes specialized knowledge and understanding to determine the best fit for
LED Lighting in Art and the Most Renowned Light Artists
Art can use light to convey an emotion, mood or thought, transcending language. Artists have always used light to emphasize certain aspects of their works of art. How light bathes a basket of fruit, for example, or shines on a pearl earring, can accentuate an art work’s attributes. The contrast of darkness with lightness can be alluring. In modern art, on
Lighting Lessons from Lighting Designer, Writer, Lecturer Gerd Pfarré
In 2016, Architectural Lighting interviewed lighting designer and founder of Pfarré Lighting Design, Gerd Pfarré, shedding light on the legendary designer's process, what’s most important when lighting a space and what the future holds for lighting. While Pfarré’s is a career is a storied one, he did not start out in the industry.
Stealing the Show: Cats in Architectural Photography
Contrary to their domesticated canine counterparts, cats don’t need constant attention. They generally lie low by lounging in the sun or trying to cram their bodies into small undersized cardboard boxes. In fact, most of the time, their humans are in the way. As proof, here's a collection of architectural photographs where the photographers were inconven
Why Art and LEDs Go Together
There’s a lot to think about when it comes to lighting a museum gallery. On the technical design side, there are two main factors to consider: light color temperature, or the warmth or coolness of a light source, and the Color Rendering Index (CRI), or the system used to indicate relative color rendering ability.