Some classic photographs of the Edison Light Week in Amsterdam from 1929, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Edison’s lightbulb breakthrough. Enjoy! For my friends who can read Dutch: And a bonus from 1969: Continue reading edison lichtweek amsterdam 1929
Are we specifying, producing and installing lighting systems that we will be proud of in the decades to come? Given all that we know about the disastrous effects of global warming, resource depletion and toxic pollution, are lighting designers proud … Continue reading specifying a brighter future
Here are a few interesting videos on how LED strips, filaments and COB units are produced. Who doesn’t love factory tours!!!! Nice video showing the binning process in detail: Some snapshots of the LED binning process! From a different manufacturer, … Continue reading LED manufacturing videos
Blender is an incredibly powerful open-source (and thereby totally free!) modelling, animation and rendering program. But for all that power, it has a rather steep learning curve. Fortunately, it has a massive community of folks churning out fantastic tutorials and … Continue reading lighting for beginners – via Blender
Here’s a nice video from Adam Savage’s Tested YouTube channel on making your own DIY faux-neon LED sign. For any of you old enough to have specified neon or cold cathode on a commercial project, the incredible ease of using … Continue reading DIY faux neon
Check out this interesting peer-reviewed paper surveying the basic science and innovation opportunities surrounding circadian/melanopic response lighting, written by Robert Soler and Erica Voss of Bios Lighting. I found one section particularly helpful, in understanding how circadian/melanopic response can be … Continue reading biologically relevant lighting
Vectorworks has partnered with MA Lighting and Robe lighting to bring to the industry a new open-standard format known as the General Device Type Format (GDTF). GDTF is a standard for describing the hierarchical and logical structure and controls of … Continue reading GDTF and MVR
Check out this very nicely produced video covering the basics of residential lighting design. Produced by Eric Reinholdt of 30X40 Design Workshop in Maine. I like the video, but the lighting design itself suffers from “downlightitus“. Reinholdt should explore integrating … Continue reading residential lighting video by 30X40 design workshop
Randy Reid of the Edison Report conducted a great interview with Jim Brodrick on the history of the U.S. Department of Energy’s guidance and investment in solid-state lighting (LED + OLED). Brodrick led a fantastic program at the DOE that … Continue reading jim brodrick interview
This week the USGBC just added a major point opportunity for commercial buildings that integrate substantial native-DC power infrastructure. As I discussed just recently (and even included 5 years ago in my predictions for the future of lighting), it increasingly … Continue reading usgbc LEED program gives big boost to dc power in commercial buildings
I found this nicely composed chart for the visible spectrum, with an emphasis on the varying effects of blue light. I can’t find the original source but within the image it is credited to “High Performance Optics”. Continue reading visible spectrum image
Check out this excellent blog post and test scenario by Kevin Willmorth, owner of Wisconsin-based Lumenique. I agree with most of his conclusions in his post, but with two comments: First, I hope to see other optics laboratories replicate the … Continue reading why CCT tuning in the work environment is not enough
Check out this amazing article exploring the current state of knowledge on the science of circadian lighting: “The Age of Enlightenment: The Promise of Circadian Lighting“, by Lynne Peeples on the website Undark.org. Really…this is one of the best examples … Continue reading age of enlightenment: the promise of circadian lighting
As a lighting nerd for close to 20 years, I’m personally disgusted at the lighting industry’s numerous dubious claims for the health benefits of blue light. I’m equally disgusted at the sensationalist claims about blue light’s possible negative health effects … Continue reading blue light decreases suicides on train platforms
Check out this beautiful 1 minute video from National Geographic explaining visible light. I especially love the depiction of light waves in the electromagnetic spectrum and the absorption and reflection of light off of colored surfaces (screen caps below). Continue reading national geographic – visible light video
Rogier van der Heide is curating a new conference called Trends in Lighting in partnership with Luger Research. The conference will be held in conjunction with Luger’s Led Professional Symposium in Bregenz, Austria. Rogier has been quite outspoken about pushing the conception … Continue reading trends in lighting conference
My sons (age 7 & 9) did a wonderful little lighting project in their elementary school classes today: Little diorama boxes (large size shoe boxes) where the teacher gave them some small battery-operated strings of LEDs or other small flashlights … Continue reading view boxes
This is shaping up to be the ULTIMATE LIGHTING NERD’S movie! Can’t wait to see it! Continue reading the current war
Thank you to all those who attended my conference session as part of the THINKLIGHT forum at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. Here is a Dropbox download link to my full slide presentation (a large PPT file which includes video), … Continue reading guangzhou international lighting exhibition: embedded lighting slides
Not too often do people put their performance evaluations into the public domain. However, I’m so impressed with the attendee evaluations I received for my Lightfair 2017 conference session “Ambient Luminescence and Experiential Design” that I will post them for … Continue reading lightfair 2017: my conference session report card
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