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Tivoli Lighting Introduces TRACE Pro™

Tivoli Lighting Introduces TRACE Pro™

Tivoli Lighting Introduces TRACE Pro™, a High-Performance Linear Lighting Platform with Advanced Control, Compact Design, and Universal Mounting  New system delivers static, dynamic, RGBW, and pixel technologies in a rugged 1x1 profile for seamless specification...

Cue the Lights: Celebrating Jules Fisher

Cue the Lights: Celebrating Jules Fisher

Fisher Marantz Stone (FMS) is thrilled to celebrate the announcement that our founder, Jules Fisher, is receiving the 2026 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Lighting Designer Jules Fisher is long considered the “gold standard” of the art...

2026 Lumen Gala Fast Approaching

2026 Lumen Gala Fast Approaching

2026 IESNYC Lumen Gala Sales Lumen Gala – June 18, 2026 Pier 60, Chelsea Piers Join us for an inspiring celebration of excellence in lighting design!  This special event shines a spotlight on the Lumen Awards recipients, honoring their outstanding achievements,...

Celebrate Manhattanhenge with IESNYC

Celebrate Manhattanhenge with IESNYC

What Are You Doing Friday Night? Catch Manhattanhenge with NextGen’s “Slice of Light” REGISTER TODAY! Friday, May 29, 2026  |  5:30 PM to 8:00 PM BASO Showroom 133 West 19th St, New York, NY Add to Calendar  Get Directions Join Us in Chelsea for a Spectacular...

DLF-NE Movable Feast 2026

DLF-NE Movable Feast 2026

An Evening of Light, Design, and Culinary Experience Join the Designers Lighting Forum of New England for one of our most anticipated events of the year—Movable Feast—a curated evening that blends exceptional lighting design with Boston’s vibrant restaurant scene....

The Human Factor

The Human Factor

There are moments on residential projects when the drawings are complete, the luminaires are installed, and the house is finally illuminated, yet something still feels unresolved. Over the years, I’ve learned that when a project struggles at the finish line, it is...

Lodes Unveils Axia at NYCxDESIGN Preview in SoHo

Lodes Unveils Axia at NYCxDESIGN Preview in SoHo

On Friday, May 15, the design community gathered for Lodes’ NYCxDESIGN Preview. Taking place at Scavolini’s SoHo Gallery, the contemporary Italian lighting brand unveiled its stunning new suspension lamp, Axia, for the first time stateside. Representing a delicate...

The Green Card Roadmap: A Guide for Lighting Firms

The Green Card Roadmap: A Guide for Lighting Firms

The lighting industry runs on international talent. Two immigration attorneys and two lighting professionals break down the path to permanent residency and what employers must do to support their teams. Lighting design is a global profession. Walk into any prominent...

Opening the Edge: Lighting a Community Back Together

Opening the Edge: Lighting a Community Back Together

The first time Kate Hickcox saw the space, it wasn’t really a place at all. It was a fenced-off void in the middle of the Lillian Wald New York City Housing Authority campus—green, technically, but inaccessible, unlit, and unused. Paths around it fell into shadow at...

Dean Skira Challenges the Lighting Design Process

Dean Skira Challenges the Lighting Design Process

At a recent VLDC session during Light + Building, Dean Skira stepped onto thestage and addressed a topic the lighting industry has wrestled with for decades:light pollution. Rather than revisitingfamiliar critiques, Dean offered afundamentally new way of thinking...

AI Ethics in Lighting

AI Ethics in Lighting

At Parsons School of Design, lighting designers, educators, and technologists gathered to confront AI's ethical frontier — before someone else defines it for them. There was an unusual honesty in the room at Parsons School of Design's Starr Foundation Hall last...