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Utilizing natural and electric light in the design for a new pet shelter and adoption center

May 23, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Linda Becker

A pet shelter can feel sterile and uncomfortable to displaced animals — and potential adopters. Shelter construction and space-planning choices are influenced by the need to house and care for many animals in a safe, clean and easy-to-sanitize environment. Some shelters are housed in spaces originally designed for other purposes, creating interior spaces with little access to fresh air or daylight.
Optically clear, 3D-printed pendantsade from recycled materials debut from LightArt m

May 13, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Linda Becker

An optically clear, additively manufactured pendant debuted today from LightArt. According to the company, the Clear Coil collection represents the first optically clear, 3D-printed pendants. LightArt is not new to recycled-material luminaires, having produced its Coil, a solid-color pendant made from recycled material using 3D printing technology, and Coil Ocean, a fixture made with 100% reclaimed ocean-bound plastic.
Lighting manufacturer representative agencies Light-CA and Kore Controls merge

Apr 8, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Linda Becker

“Lit by Passion. Powered by Partnership.” For Tom Fischer and Jason Schanta, their new company’s tagline is more than just words. It is the foundation upon which two long-time players in the Southern California lighting market plan to operate their new company.
Reed Burkett Lighting Design transformed the historic Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis with architectural lighting design

Apr 8, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Linda Becker

Stunning mosaic artwork has adorned the walls and ceilings of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis for much of its 100-year history, yet failing fixtures limited even the task lighting parishioners relied on during services and obscured the spectacular view. Following an extensive lighting design renovation completed by Reed Burkett Lighting Design of St. Louis in late 2023, the beauty of more than 80,000 square feet of mosaic artwork is highlighted as never before.
Lighting design tips to create comfortable, flexible environments

Apr 2, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Chris Udall

With the advances in LED technology, modern commercial lighting control systems deliver code compliance and energy efficiency by default. Now, owners and end-users are focusing on ways to further elevate the occupant experience and improve building performance.
Lighting for the new retail experience

Mar 25, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Vilma Barr

With the convenience and unparalleled product selection available to online shoppers, companies are rethinking their approach to retail, seeking ways they can entice customers to visit their physical stores. This repurposing is causing a shift in retail store design, and the way lighting is used in these spaces is changing.
Transforming a basement into a vibrant workplace

Mar 24, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Jim Crockett

Challenge: White Collar Factory may be one of London’s most pioneering new office developments, but its basement was never intended to become a workspace. However, when plans to turn this underground area into a restaurant failed to materialize, the building’s architects, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM), saw an opportunity. The space, after all, had some unique features, such as a 26-ft. floor-to-ceiling height, which created the feeling of a grand hall.
Tuning into human-centric lighting

Feb 28, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Barbara Horwitz-Bennett

Today’s solid-state marketplace offers an array of tunable LEDs, enabling the harnessing of different colors and color temperatures from one light source. However, there is a significant difference between tunable lighting and circadian LED technology that realistically mimics changing wavelengths of sunlight throughout the day to optimally stimulate the body’s natural release of serotonin in the morning and melatonin at night.
Smaller-scale luminaire expands outdoor lighting line while maintaining lighting output

Feb 26, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Linda Becker

Calling its new outdoor lighting series an evolution in terms of miniaturization and light engine, Coastal Source launched the Evo Series lighting line for outdoor installations. At an event at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center on February 24, more than 250 dealers, customers and company team members gathered to learn about the new products and help celebrate Coastal Source’s 15th anniversary.
Lighting two-dimensional and three-dimensional stores

Feb 21, 2024 | lightspeconline.com | Vilma Barr

Retail clients are putting high priority on the "Instagrammable Moment." This phenomenon connects consumers' digital and physical worlds and enables retailers a greater reach than their carefully honed marketing plans could imagine. According to a VidMob study, The State of Social Video, "25% of Gen Z and millennials actively seek videos of products and services they may buy."But creating an Instagram-worthy moment is no small task.