Architecture & Design

Posted on the: January 31, 2019

Turning Your Building into an Artistic Masterpiece with Indirect Light

Lighting was just as important an ingredient in Johannes Vermeer’s paintings as his expensive lapis lazuli (blue) pigments. By leveraging the same indirect lighting Vermeer used, you can turn your space into a masterpiece too.    For centuries, artists have prized studios with north-facing windows for painting. Dutch master Johannes[...]

Posted on the: January 28, 2019

5 Answers About Human-Centric Lighting

Over the past few years, a new buzzword has crept into lighting industry lexicon: “human-centric lighting.” While the name is new, the concept is actually the oldest lighting concept under the sun. Because it, uh, is the sun. The sun’s light changes over the course of a day and after[...]

Posted on the: January 23, 2019

Illuminating Today’s Offices: The Lighting Designer’s Checklist

Between changing work styles and research on health and ergonomics, it’s clear that today’s knowledge workers need different office lighting than in the past. Lighting has a huge impact on how we work, our productivity levels and how happy we feel at work. Given the low national employment rates and[...]

Posted on the: January 18, 2019

CASE STUDY: Amerlux’s Elegant Linear Lighting System Casts Financial Firm in a New Light

Nestled among the historic buildings of Boston’s Fort Point Channel neighborhood that overlooks the busy channel waters, a leading financial firm needed to revitalize its high-rise offices. The found the answer in Amerlux's linear pendant LED product—a solution that delivered perfect light and secured a utility incentive. [...]

Posted on the: January 15, 2019

4 Things Architects Should Know About Lumens vs. Perceived Brightness

Have you ever walked into a room during the day and thought “it looks really dark in here” and then seen the same room at night where it feels bright? The lights in the room are putting out the same number of lumens, but due to the sunlight, our eyes[...]

Posted on the: January 11, 2019

How Lighting Boosts Productivity: 4 Things Designers Should Know

The best design is a marriage between form and function that pleases every stakeholder and looks beautiful at the same time. Different constituents often have goals that diverge at best or compete at worst and satisfying everyone can be harder than spotting a unicorn in the wild. But, achieving this[...]

Posted on the: September 27, 2018

CRI vs. TM-30: What Do These Color Quality Measures Mean?

If you’ve looked at lighting recently, you may have seen something like “CRI: 83” or “Rf 94”among the alphabet soup of the lighting specs. Another product advertised its great color rendering with two scores and a round graph. What does it all mean? How a light renders colors is very[...]

Posted on the: September 20, 2018

4 Ways to Save with LED Lighting

Today’s LEDs set the standard for light comfort, color quality and controllability. Even better, they cost a lot less than you might think and they can deliver huge savings to your bottom line. Here are four ways LED lighting will lower your operating costs: 1. Energy Cost Savings Electricity is[...]

Posted on the: September 13, 2018

9 Ways You’ll Look Like a Hero by Switching to LED Lights

As a facility manager, you are tasked with ensuring the safety, comfort, productivity, sustainability, beauty and maintenance of your facility—all while keeping costs down. That’s a pretty tall order. What if you could accomplish all that and more by making one simple change? Change your lighting and you can. LED[...]

Posted on the: September 13, 2018

10 Ways Architects and Lighting Designers Can Bring Their Visions to Light

The construction industry is becoming more and more specialized every year. It’s commonplace for specialists like lighting designers to work side-by-side with design architects to help enhance the design’s shapes and colors and improve the overall functionality of the space. This collaboration provides a new dimension of expertise throughout both[...]