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Jennifer Chronister Joins BIOS Lighting
Jennifer Chronister is a marketing leader with more than 14 years of experience building brands, developing marketing strategies, and helping companies grow. She brings a strong background in the lighting industry, where she has worked across brand strategy, product...
Non Random: the Suspension Lamp Redefining the Presence of Light in Space
Non Random expands the Lodes catalogue with a suspension lamp that reinterprets the glass sphere through a more assertive design language, capable of defining a space and its identity. Designed to work with all the brand’s individual canopies, it introduces new...
Pharos unites old and new at Maisonneuve Library
A sensitive and transformative lighting scheme at the Maisonneuve Library in Montreal, supported by a control solution from Pharos Architectural Controls, has redefined the way the building’s rich architectural heritage is experienced after dark, uniting historic...
WAC GROUP Appoints John Jiang to Executive Director of APAC Product Marketing
PORT WASHINGTON, NY-- WAC Group has announced the appointment of John Jiang as the new Executive Director of APAC (Asia-Pacific) Product Marketing for WAC Group. Through strong relationships with global specification firms, he has executed hundreds of world-class...
Built, Not Discovered: David DiLaura’s Closing Lessons
The final chapter of David DiLaura’s 80th birthday celebration brought reflections on teaching, friendship and building a career. Class photographs and a spirited auction supporting lighting education at CU Boulder followed. “Before we do the birthday toast, can we...
80 Trips Around the Sun with David DiLaura
80 Trips Around the Sun: David DiLaura on Change, Learning and Trust On 15 August, friends, colleagues, former students and members of the lighting community gathered at the Koenig Alumni Center at the University of Colorado Boulder to celebrate Dr. David DiLaura’s...
Bamboozle, Red Pajamas and a Volvo: Celebrating David DiLaura
Dean Brockob Celebrates David DiLaura: “My Students Are My Family” On 15 August, I had the opportunity to attend the 80th birthday celebration for Dr. David DiLaura, perhaps the most influential educator alive today. When I arrived at the Koenig Alumni Center at the...
Why Lighting Manufacturers Use Regional Representation
In the lighting industry, products rarely sell on specifications alone. Success depends on market understanding, trusted connections, technical expertise, and the ability to manage a project from design through installation. This is why lighting manufacturers rely on...
PureEdge Lighting Announces Settlement of Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against LightBlue USA / Rayhil
CHICAGO — August 13, 2026 — PureEdge Lighting today announced that it has reached a settlement with LightBlue USA & Associates LLC (d/b/a Rayhil Inc.), resolving PureEdge’s patent infringement lawsuit concerning trimless recessed track lighting systems. PureEdge...
IALD Awards Call For Entries: Open Now
The IALD has opened the Call for Entries in the 44th annual IALD International Lighting Design Awards for 2027. The IALD invites architectural lighting designers from around the globe to submit their best projects in the 2027 Call for Entries, marking the beginning of...
A Balancing Act: Using AI as a Tool to Make Room for Human Connection
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It has quickly become part of our workflows, conversations, and even our clients’ expectations. In luxury residential design, however, where projects are deeply personal and relationships are central, its role is...
Apply Today. Join the Guiding Lights Circle Mentorship Initiative
Only a few weeks left to apply! Deadline: August 21, 2026 Don't miss your chance to be part of the IESNYC Guiding Lights Circle. This mentorship initiative is designed to enrich the careers of both emerging and seasoned lighting professionals. Now entering its third...
Designing with PoE: Lighting a $25,000-Per-Night Villa
The first impression of Villa 66 is not its scale—though at this level of hospitality, scale is expected. It is the quiet precision of light. At Resorts World Las Vegas, within the Crockfords collection, Villa 66 represents the highest tier of accommodation. At...
Modern Forms Introduces TUCK Spa/Sauna Light Collection
PORT WASHINGTON, NY—Some lighting fixtures are not built for extreme environments. The TUCK Spa/Sauna Light Collection is. Select the sauna-ready version of TUCK, TUCK II, or TUCK III, and you get a light engineered to be wet-rated for outdoor use, heat-resistant,...
Up Close With Neha Sivaprasad
When Neha Sivaprasad describes her path into lighting, she doesn’t begin with technology or titles. She begins with feelings. Neha recalls that as a quiet, observant child, she was aware of how spaces made her feel. “I didn’t articulate it then...but I think I was...
AMP Lighting Expands iQ Smart Landscape Lighting System with RGBCW LED Path Lights
Part of the AMP iQ™ Smart Landscape Lighting System, the AMP® iQ™ Smart RGBCW LED Path Lights combine premium cast brass construction with advanced wireless control to enhance outdoor environments with both beauty and flexibility. Available in three distinctive styles...
Landscape Forms Takes the Lighting Road Show Nationwide
Kalamazoo, MI – July 15, 2026 – Landscape Forms, North America's leading designer and manufacturer of high-design site lighting, furniture, structures and accessories, continues its 2026 Lighting Road Show Tour, a multi-phase touring exhibition that brings the...
The NYC Section of the IES Announces the Recipients of the 2026 IESNYC Thesis Awards
New York, NY — The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) proudly announces the recipients of the 2026 IESNYC Thesis Awards. Recognizing exceptional academic work and creative exploration in lighting, the annual awards celebrate...
A Glittering Steakhouse
Butcher & Rose in Columbus, Ohio transformed the typically dark, male-oriented steakhouse interior into a space that is dramatic and visually distinctive. Lighting plays a central role in enhancing the owner’s vision of welcoming a broad spectrum of visitors to...
Custom Lighting from WAC Group brings Moona Restaurant’s Vision to Life
Moona, the beloved Inman Square restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently opened its second location on Main Street, designed by Boston firm Bergmeyer. The new space offered greater visibility and scale, and introduced a new set of architectural challenges that...


