Rethinking the Most Common Mistakes in Commercial Lighting Design
Leading architects and designers explain how thoughtful lighting creates more comfortable, memorable and human-centered commercial spaces.
Lighting for All Senses: Designing for Neurodiversity
Human-centric lighting principles create environments that foster focus, reduce anxiety and boost productivity.
Unveiling the Radiant Realm: Mastering Volumetric Lighting Effects
Essentially, volumetric lighting refers to the illusion created when a lighting technique suggests a certain perspective, orientation or effect that increases, enhances or magnifies the sense of volume in a given space, context or application. In residential and commercial lighting design, volumetric lighting is often synonymous with task lighting. Light fi
Lighting for Mood
Mood lighting harnesses color temperatures, actual colors and flexible controls to set the atmosphere within a given space.
Lighting Technology: What is Color Tuning?
Color tuning is an exciting and relatively new lighting technology that affords the user an ability to control light color to adapt, soften, and elevate human experiences and environments to particular functions throughout the day, on demand. To overcome the lack of natural light in a space or to increase the added benefit of natural lighting on the human b
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
Intro to Lighting Design: Qualitative & Quantitative Principles
If the work of lighting design was just left to services engineers to meet regulation-determined illuminance criteria per application, then interior and exterior architectural spaces would become soulless environments. Using qualitative measurements, architects and lighting designers can make sure the architectural intention and aesthetic character of a spa
Interview: Lighting Designers on the Role of Uplighting
Besides providing additional lighting with minimal glare in commercial applications such as offices, classrooms and libraries, indirect lighting can also highlight architectural ceiling details such as beams, pipes and other distinctive ceiling traits.
