When it comes to managing a commercial operation there has to come a point when issues like Brexit have to take the back seat. However existential that process has become over the past three years it eventually sits there alongside death and taxes in the list of inevitables. So we may just as well crack …
Integral LED – Official Opening of Aylesbury Logistics Hub Read More »
Should I really need to write this? Its depressing to think that, even now, some slack-jawed deniers will be queuing outside their local lighting shops, demanding the return of the 100W light bulb. Donald Trump, POTUS across the water, has decided that the reason he always appears to be an unusual shade of orange is …
As PLDC is the largest gathering of lighting professionals across the lighting design community, its been decided that PLDC 2019 will close with an official vote on the pursuit of recognition of qualified professionals within the community. Context: The lighting design community is spread across all countries and continents. PLDC marks the largest gathering of …
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The days of flattening a baked bean tin and punching out a Rorschach-esque pattern to make a gobo, swearing to the client that it’s their company logo, are behind us. The gobo has come of age and is making its way into architectural projects. When I cut the ribbon on the entrance to The Designers’ …
Light a London Landmark: designers exercise their gobo muscles Read More »
This just in from the PLDC team: Online registration closes on 18. October • Pre-convention meetings complete • All Keynote Speakers announced • PLDR Award nominees released The programme for the Professional Lighting Design Convention 2019 in Rotterdam promises to be more diverse and exciting than ever before. And the programme for the pre-convention meeting …
You know the thing; you’re sitting quietly in the garden, enjoying the unexpected sunshine with a fine chilled prosecco, when you hear conversation coming from the other side of the fence. New neighbours. You think, I hope they behave themselves. As you can’t avoid listening in you come to realise that these folk are talking …
We have a somewhat tense relationship with light and fire. After all, for millenia, light and fire meant much the same thing; you set fire to something and it gave off comforting heat and light . . . but it might also burn the house down. Nothing has really changed. We’ve perhaps become a bit …
The IP Rating system is there to provide a guide to the degree of protection that lighting equipment has against the ingress of solids and liquids. The ratings are defined in international standard EN60529. The First Number (IPn*) relates to solids and ranges from 0 – 6. The numbers offer a logical progression that indicate …
The Light Review’s Lighting Tree asks lighting designers for their least favourite activity in the creative process of producing lighting design. With eye-rolling regularity, also from your editor, it comes down to drawing-up the specification. It takes an awful lot of creative energy to withstand the grinding task of notating, counting, listing, checking – then …
Looking for a new way to specify? Spektd is here for you. Read More »
Positive news comes out of Braintree, from the new home of SG Lighting. Having outgrown their old place, the company has moved round the corner to bigger premises in Great Notley. You’ll now find SG Lighting at Majesty House, Avenue West, Skyline 120, Great Notley, Braintree. CM77 7AA. New catalogues to go with new office …
