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Blumenthal, Smith, and del Signore Create Blackbird Lighting Company
Lester Blumenthal and Mark del Signore, former partners of Blumenthal Alternative Wallcovering (now owned by Steelcase), have joined with industrial designer Christopher Smith to form Sheffield, Massachusetts-based Blackbird. For residential and commercial applications, the company's lighting...
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Lighting Challenges in 2007...continued
Emergency Lighting--Whose Responsibility Is It: The Electrical Engineer or the Lighting Designer?
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Global Practice
Architects and lighting designers are no longer restricted to practicing their craft in the immediate vicinity of their local city or state. The dynamics of globalization have changed all that. Today, it is just as easy for a firm to be working on a project halfway around the world, as it is to be...
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Visual Communication
Media artist Ben Rubin explores the interaction between light, sound, and symbol.
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Exchange
In order to practice architectural lighting design, should individuals be required to attend an accredited degree program followed by professional work experience and a licensing exam? Would establishing an education and licensing procedure for lighting designers more in line with the training of...
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Exchange
Lighting designers don't feel architects understand or value their work. Architects feel they can take care of basic lighting requirements themselves. So where does the communication between architecture and lighting start in a formalized design education? What is the role of lighting in an...
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Lighting for the Consumer: Interview with Designer Stephen Saint-Onge
Saint-Onge has recently joined with Philips to educate the consumer population about its lighting options.
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Independent Lighting Consultants
Much effort within the U.S. lighting industry has been focused on preserving and promoting
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People
Available Light: NY has announced it has changed its name to
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A|L Design Awards, Outstanding Achievement: Hotel Puerta America
Touted as one of the 'it' projects of 2005, owing to its exorbitant price tag and cadre of 19 notable designers, the 342-room, 12-story Hotel Puerta America on the outskirts of Madrid simultaneously enthralls and confuses.