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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...
The Real Work of Value Engineering – A Collaborative Approach
It’s a situation most lighting designers have experienced: a project you spent months designing comes back with arequest to review and accept a VE package. You’ve seen it time and time again, a package of substitutions with acarrot of cost savings and a deadline....
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 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
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...
Circadian Lighting at Sea: Human-Centric Design for Offshore Control Rooms
Late at night, far from shore, the work never stops. Inside a control room monitoring offshore wind farms—one in the United States, another in the Baltic—operators sit before walls of data, tracking performance, responding to alerts, and maintaining constant...
Inter-lux Unveils Two Innovative Lighting Systems: Buzzer and Skylum
Baltimore, MD, USA – May 27, 2026 – Buzzer and Skylum launched to enhance a wide range of interior and exterior applications Buzzer is a groundbreaking family of bollards, path markers and wall fixtures designed for the exterior illumination of pedestrian walkways,...
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....
CIE 2027: The World’s Premier Lighting Science Summit Comes to Nanjing
The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) has officially announced its 31st Quadrennial Session, scheduled for 9–17 July 2027 in Nanjing, China — a city where centuries of dynastic history coexist with a thriving modern research landscape. Hosted by the China...
CEDIA Expo/CIX Serves as the Convergence Point for Design, Architecture, and Technology
ALPHARETTA, Georgia, May 26, 2026 — “Start smart” is the message that design build professionals are increasingly internalizing as new research shows that early collaboration between design build professionals and integrators yields significant gains in the success of...
BOL Webinar: Everything HR Wishes You’d Include In Your Employee Handbook (but made fun)
The importance of establishing a clear foundation of business policies for all employees - what to include, what to exclude, and why. Featuring Nancy Stathes - President, Specialty Lighting Industries Julie Dudley - HR & Talent Leader $35.00 Buy all access courses...
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...
The Architect’s Newspaper: How Quiet Lighting Can Transform the Way Interiors Feel
Earlier this year, I joined a panel discussion hosted by AN’s editor in chief Jack Murphy and organized by Be Original Americas at the Davide Groppi showroom in New York. Titled “Illuminating Wellness,” it was a conversation about how interior lighting shapes the...
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 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
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
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...
Inter-lux Expands its Extensive Linear Product Offering with New Flexible Lighting
Inter-lux Flexible Lighting is a premium flexible linear lighting solution engineered to contour seamlessly to any shape or surface, delivering consistent, uniform illumination with a clean, polished aesthetic. Other notable features of Inter-lux Flexible 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...
Hervé Descottes Lighting Designer NYC | Night Boat Tour · NYCxDESIGN
A City Seen in a Different Light An Evening with Hervé Descottes, Lighting Designer New York after dark belongs to a different kind of architect — one who works not with steel and concrete, but with luminance, shadow, and the quiet language of light. Hervé Descottes,...


