Lighting Design | Trends in Lighting

Trends in Lighting | Streetlighting | Apr 17, 2025
EXC Ultra-High Efficiency Module Streetlights: Illuminating the Smart Roads of the Future
EXC Ultra-High Efficiency Module Streetlights: Illuminating the Smart Roads of the Future In the context of global efforts to achieve carbon neutrality and peak carbon emissions, road lighting has emerged as a key sector for energy conservation and emissions reduction. Currently, China has over 32 million road lighting fixtures, accounting for approximately 30% of total lighting power consumption and about 3% of national electricity consumption. However, the national replacement rate of traditional road lighting with energy-saving LED streetlights remains between 40% and 60%, highlighting significant opportunities for improvement. As countries worldwide strive to meet stringent environmental and energy efficiency goals, the demand for advanced, sustainable lighting technology continues to grow. Read more »
Zumtobel | Applications | Mar 14, 2025
Zumtobel is a partner of Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Zumtobel is a partner of Fundació Mies van der Rohe As a new partner of Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Zumtobel is committed to promoting creative thought processes in contemporary architecture and supporting the renowned EUmies Awards architecture prize. The Spanish foundation takes its namesake from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of modernism's most important architects, globally esteemed for pioneering the Bauhaus style. His motto "Less is more" shaped an architectural philosophy characterized by clear lines, open room concepts and innovative materiality. The upcoming highlight in the Fundació event calendar is the presentation of the prestigious Young Talents Award, which will take place at the Biennale Architettura in Venice on the 19th of June, 2025. Read more »
Emergency Lighting | Applications | Feb 26, 2025
Sustainability in Emergency Lighting: The Role of TM65 and TM66 Explained
Sustainability in Emergency Lighting: The Role of TM65 and TM66 Explained As sustainability continues to shape the construction and lighting industries, it is crucial for electrical contractors to understand key environmental assessment methodologies. Two important technical memorandums - TM65 and TM66, play a significant role in evaluating the environmental impact of lighting products. However, they serve distinct purposes. Read more »
Frankie Boyle | Applications | Dec 31, 2024
A Look Back at LiGHT 24 With Artist Frankie Boyle
A Look Back at LiGHT 24 With Artist Frankie Boyle Visitors to this year’s LiGHT 24 exhibition, held on the 20th and 21st of November at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London, received the unique opportunity to view the never-before-seen art installation ‘Intra-spectrum’ by artist Frankie Boyle, powered by leading architectural lighting manufacturer formalighting. Read more »
Nulty | Klaasen Lighting Design | Applications | Nov 26, 2024
NULTY Acquires KLAASEN Lighting Design
NULTY Acquires KLAASEN Lighting Design Nulty has announced the expansion of its reach across Europe and Asia, with a particular focus on Singapore, through the acquisition of KLAASEN Lighting Design—a brand with a 40-year legacy in the architectural lighting design industry. Read more »
Applications | Acuity Brands | IES Report | Aug 19, 2024
Seven Innovative Lighting and Components Solutions from Acuity Brands Selected for the 2024 IES Progress Report
Seven Innovative Lighting and Components Solutions from Acuity Brands Selected for the 2024 IES Progress Report Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) announced today that seven Acuity Brands lighting and components solutions were selected for the 2024 Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Report, which showcases the year's most significant advancements in the art and science of lighting. Selections were made by an impartial committee that evaluated submissions based on uniqueness, innovation, and significance to the lighting industry. Read more »
Alloy LED | Applications | Jul 15, 2024
Alloy LED Launches Flexible, Low-Profile Aluminum SurfaFlex 1 Tape Light Channel
Alloy LED Launches Flexible, Low-Profile Aluminum SurfaFlex 1 Tape Light Channel Alloy LED, a leading designer and manufacturer of premium quality LED tape lights, continues to expand its extensive portfolio of tape light channels with the launch of the SurfaFlex 1 , a flexible, low-profile, surface-mount aluminum channel providing uniform, hotspot-free illumination when paired with the company’s compatible tape lights. At only 0.61 of an inch wide and 0.15 of an inch in height, the channel is ideal for curved surfaces – with a minimum bend radius of 5.5 inches – and those commercial and residential spaces when the smallest footprint is needed. Read more »
Applications | Glamox | Luminaire | Jul 15, 2024
Glamox Unveils New Vandal-resistant and Dark Sky-certified Wall Lights
Glamox Unveils New Vandal-resistant and Dark Sky-certified Wall Lights Glamox, a world leader in lighting, has launched a family of outdoor wall-mounted luminaires with a difference. The new luminaires, aimed at commercial and public buildings, are vandal-resistant and have a special dark sky-certified version. The latter allows people to navigate safely while helping to limit light pollution that impacts the night-time environment - good news for nocturnal species and astronomers. Read more »
Organic Lighting | FortaCast | Applications | Jul 03, 2024
Organic Lighting Launches FortaCast in Europe: Pioneering Modular Drive-Over Lighting
Organic Lighting Launches FortaCast in Europe: Pioneering Modular Drive-Over Lighting Organic Lighting announces the international launch of FortaCast, a patented modular drive-over lighting system that simplifies the complexities of inground drive-over lighting with an innovative, proven, and futureproof design. FortaCast introduces a new era of creative design possibilities in lighting, featuring environmentally friendly Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) sections that allow for continuous straight lines, circles, squares, intersections, and curves with a minimal radius of 30cm. Read more »
Applications | serien.lighting | Jun 20, 2024
serien.lighting Illuminates the New Building of the Dessau Synagogue
serien.lighting Illuminates the New Building of the Dessau Synagogue The newly built synagogue in Dessau is characterised by the long-standing collaboration between the German lighting manufacturer serien.lighting and the well-known architect Alfred Jacoby. This project underlines serien.lighting's expertise in the development of customised special luminaires that can be harmoniously combined with the manufacturer's existing products. Read more »
Cooper Lighting Solutions | HCL | Applications | Jun 13, 2024
Cooper Lighting Solutions Released of BioUp, a Cutting-edge Line of Melanopic Lighting Technology
Cooper Lighting Solutions Released of BioUp, a Cutting-edge Line of Melanopic Lighting Technology Light has a profound impact on wellbeing, offering a myriad of visual, biological, and emotional benefits as a key regulator of circadian rhythm. Recognizing the significance of the integration between light and wellbeing, Cooper Lighting Solutions has included BioUp across multiple CLS brands and product families, to provide these enhanced benefits in professional spaces. Read more »
Luminaires | Zumtobel | Trends | Applications | May 10, 2024
Reliable Lighting for Challenging Industrial Environments – Zumtobel Introduces the EXTONA Explosion-proof Luminaire
Reliable Lighting for Challenging Industrial Environments – Zumtobel Introduces the EXTONA Explosion-proof Luminaire Zumtobel’s new moisture-proof luminaire EXTONA is ideal for use in hazardous areas and harsh industrial conditions. Certified for use in ATEX 2/22 zones, this explosion-proof luminaire is particularly resilient thanks to its robust design and is also protected against the most challenging conditions, such as significant dust formation or powerful jets of water. It also features impact-resistant housing and an emergency light function. Read more »
Resources | LpR Article | Applications | Technologies | Controls | Smart Lighting + IoT | Aug 31, 2020
Offline Lighting Voice Controller — An Alternative to Voice Assistants
The historical evolution of light control by users started with a mechanical switch followed by potentiometer and dimming, touch panels and touch screens, gesture and movement detection control, and ending with voice. Voice control are mostly online speaker independent like Alexa, Google Home and Siri. But there are privacy and security concerns. Filip Michalski, Electronic Engineer, and Cezary Skotak, CEO, from Cezos describe a speaker independent offline voice controls system, explain the technology and discuss the pros and cons. Read more »
Systems + Applications | Luminaires | Applications | Dim-to-Warm | Tunable White Light | HCL | Mar 25, 2020
Lucifer Lighting Introduces STELLR™
Lucifer Lighting, known for designing and engineering high-quality, unobtrusive architectural lighting fixtures, introduces a new and innovative fixture that bridges architectural and decorative lighting, STELLR™. STELLR is a bold and significant entry in the decorative/ architectural market, offering advanced, patent-pending engineered technology and sophisticated design that gives architects, interior designers, and lighting designers infinite lighting options with a single fixture. Read more »
Indoor Applications | Applications | Systems + Applications | Outdoor Applications | Luminaires | SSL | Linear Lights | Feb 26, 2020
Acclaim Lighting Expands Modular Linear One Series for Interior and Exterior Linear Lighting
Acclaim Lighting, a leader in innovative and advanced solid-state lighting technology, expands its Linear One® Series, which includes low-watt, high-output energy-efficient interior and exterior modular linear LED fixtures in a wide range of color temperatures, CRI and beam angles. With no visible cables, the fixtures create a clutter-free environment. Read more »
HCL-Research | Health | Applications | Feb 24, 2020
LRC Evaluates Hybrid UV/Blue Light Lighting System to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections
People who visit hospitals are expecting care and treatment, not additional complications, yet approximately 1 in 25 patients contract healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in U.S. hospitals, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Standard cleaning procedures usually involve manual application of detergents and disinfectants. Unfortunately, the efficacy of these manual cleaning procedures can vary considerably. In fact, less than 50% of patient room surfaces are properly cleaned. Read more »
Applications | Outdoor Applications | Wireless | Nov 14, 2019
Cree Lighting Improves Outdoor and Industrial Intelligent Lighting
Cree Lighting announced the availability of Synapse®SimplySNAP intelligent lighting controls for the OSQ Series area, IG Series parking structure and KBL Series high-bay luminaires. These Cree Lighting luminaires overcome the challenges of outdoor and industrial environments to provide maximum energy savings, responsive illumination and a better user experience. Read more »
Applications | Smart Lighting + IoT | Resources | LpR Article | Aug 13, 2019
Technologies for Shared Office Space
LpR 72 Article, page 66: Shared office spaces are gaining popularity as a flexible, resource-efficient and creativity-inspiring way to work. The dynamic nature of such office spaces requires building automation and lighting control solutions that can quickly be deployed and easily be adapted to new office layouts. Matthias Kassner, Vice President Product Marketing at EnOcean GmbH, takes a look at different connectivity architectures (wired, wireless, hybrid) and protocols (Bluetooth, ZigBee, EnOcean, PoE) to assess their usability and show how minimizing the need for maintenance is a key for increasing profitability of service-based offerings. Read more »
Resources | LpR Article | Horticulture | Applications | Mar 28, 2019
Enriching Horticultural Lighting for Faster Growth and Better Crops
Horticulture lighting is no new lighting application, but it gained momentum with the introduction and evolution of LED lighting, and it is meanwhile one of the fastest growing markets in lighting. Dr. Richard Blakey, Application Engineer at Würth Elektronik eiSos, explains how LED-based horticultural lighting can deliver even bigger advantages for commercial growers by introducing additional wavelengths that increase photosynthetic response - like Würth Elektronik's new members of the WL-SMDC SMD Mono-Color Ceramic LED Waterclear family that is used as a reference in the article. Read more »
Resources | LpR Article | Special Topics | DC-Grids | Applications | Mar 28, 2019
48 VDC Integrated Drivers Offer New Options
LpR 70 Article, page 102: In the telecommunication and IT businesses, especially, 48 VDC grids have become quite popular. This growing global trend to facilitate direct current (DC) power supply in building "microgrids" presents new opportunities for solid state lighting designers. TE's Lighting Industry Manager, Ron Weber, and Global Product Manager, Scott Hamilton, describe how LED lighting fixture designers can now design luminaires around a 48 VDC constant voltage input, available to take advantage of the benefits of a low voltage DC distribution grid in a building. Read more »
Resources | LpR Article | Applications | Artificial Intelligence | Controls | Jan 30, 2019
Interactive Lighting Control is Opening New Doors for LED Applications
LpR 69 Article, page 98: Advancements in lighting control technology are allowing for sophisticated interactivity in LED mapping. These new technologies are bridging the gap between lighting control and AI, with the ability to analyze and map data input (such as audio) in real-time. Installations driven by interactive LED control technologies have their place in a variety of application spaces. Manjinder Benning, Founder and CTO of Limbic Media, explains how this new technology works, what its applications are, and what the future of interactive lighting control looks like – not only for end-users, but also for lighting designers and technicians. Read more »
Resources | LpR Article | Organization News | LightingEurope | Applications | Dec 12, 2018
Evaluating Performance of LED-Based Luminaires
LpR 69 Article, page 48: The wide spread of performance data supplied by manufacturers make it difficult for the professional user to reach an “apple-to-apple” comparison, especially if the data is not based on standardized metrics. This is however critical for the preparation of lighting projects or tender specifications. Experts from LightingEurope have therefore developed a guidance document which recommends a fixed set of performance data for LED based luminaires, with particular emphasis to the useful life and the data which is necessary for lighting application design. Read more »
Resources | LpR Article | Research News | CIE | Applications | Dec 12, 2018
How to Use the Technologies for Adaptive Lighting
The technologies to provide adaptive lighting are already in the marketplace and are accepted by some jurisdictions. Nonetheless, we have an inadequate understanding of how best to use these technologies, meaning that installations might not serve users well, and in the worst case, might lead to harm. Lighting researchers can generate the knowledge needed to support the best application of adaptive lighting technologies. The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) understands the importance and urgency to deal with problems of adaptive, dynamic and intelligent lighting in all application fields. Hence, this topic is a highlight of CIE’s research strategy. Read more »
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