By this time next week my bags will be packed and I’ll be standing by the front door with my tickets in my hand . . . either that or running around panicking because I can’t find my press pass. Are you organised? Plan your conference schedule PLDC offers 74 presentations + six Keynotes −
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A message went across my screen recently informing me that I can buy a 10W exterior floodlight for less than three quid. Ridiculous, of course. But there it was, and it’s not just one company offering bargain basement prices. Where do you want to set your price point? £10.00? £5.00? £2.89 . . . It
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The story of street lighting goes back hundreds of years, when the simple imperative was to be able to see where we were walking (and what we might be stepping in). We’ve come a long way from lanterns over door- ways and the progress of Urbis Schréder has been in lock-step with improvements in lighting
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Thanks to Mary Ruston-Beales for bringing this to my attention. Becoming a specialist in lighting design in just one year. The New York School of Interior Design is offering a full-time master’s degree in Lighting Design (classes offered in the evenings and on weekends). The School is claiming to turn interior designers into lighting experts
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After almost 8 years at Speirs+Major and being awarded the title Dark Sky Defender in 2017, Kerem established Dark Source in 2019 to focus on projects driven with social and environmental values. Thanks to Rachael Nicholls for nominating Kerem to the esteemed Lighting Tree What was the fascination with lighting that drew you to into this career? Money. Now
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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