Lighting is so often treated as a “bolt-on” component of building design with architects or building owners coming to a lighting consultant after the blue prints are all but printed. This [...]

Light is the link between our bodies and the solar day. We evolved under the sun for millions of years and are closely attuned to the daily light/dark cycle of the sun. This is our circadian [...]

The very first LEDs were invented in the early 1960s and LED lighting has come a long way since the 1990s when it entered the commercial market as a viable alternative to incandescent and [...]

The “right” light—it’s what everyone wants, but what is it? The right light for a space is light that delivers in three areas: the right amount of light at the right location for the right amount [...]

One of these rainbows is beautiful like a dream and one is an ugly nightmare. (Right photo courtesy of Energy.gov). Rainbows in nature are beautiful things and seeing them in the sky can be a [...]

Above: Use the slider to see the difference a metal halide lamp and Amerlux’s high color quality LEDs.  As any physicist can tell you, color is made of three things: hue, saturation and [...]

For centuries, artificial lighting has been focused on providing illumination for tasks. While that is still the main purpose, the next frontier in modern lighting is light that makes us [...]

There are three basic kinds of lighting at work in a space: ambient (general) lighting, task lighting and accent lighting. The optimal way to illuminate a space depends on the room’s function in [...]

You’ve read it thousands of times on lighting products you’ve specified: “DLC Listed” and “DLC Approved.” But what does it really mean? What is the DLC? The DesignLights Consortium (DLC) is a [...]

Linear LED Saves Time, Money for Architects, Design-Build Firms, Contractors Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today it has been granted U.S. patent [...]