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Schonbek ✕ Swarovski® Crystal: Illuminating the 83rd Annual Golden Globes®
Schonbek partnered with Swarovski® to transform the 2026 Golden Globes® red carpet into a radiant…
Lighting the Gateway as LA Welcomes the World
When the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) set out to link its growing rail network directly to the airport, the project required a design that could do more than guide commuters. It needed to rise to the moment—especially with major...
QTL Certifies Three LED Lighting Families with Environmental Product Declarations
MILFORD, Conn. — QTL Lighting announced its PERI, ESSENTIALS, and MICRO 5 LED lighting families earned third-party certified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). The three product lines join a growing list of EPD-rated QTL solutions, helping architects,...
Luminii Launches Gen 2 LED Platform with Industry-Leading Performance Across Linear Portfolio
New Gen 2 LED architecture delivers industry-leading efficacy, color quality, precision, and system-wide performance enhancements across Luminii’s linear portfolio Chicago, IL — Luminii, a leader in high-performance architectural lighting, today announced the launch...
Canada Light Expo Early Bird Discount Ends Soon
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Hotel Andaz Miami Beach: Light, Water, and the Aqueous Threshold
The first thing I noticed, standing on the upper terrace of the new Hotel Andaz Miami Beach, was the movement of light. Not electric light—at least not at first—but daylight tumbling through circular water-filled skylights overhead. The sun rippled through the...
IESNYC Student Lighting Competition Presents 25 And Still Shining
A Silver Celebration February 11, 2026 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Add to Calendar Marset USA Showroom 202 North 10th Street Brooklyn, NY Directions REGISTER NOW Complimentary Admission for All RSVP required before noon on the day of the event. Must be 21+ to consume...
Save 10% on Your LIT Awards Entry
Submissions are now open for the LIT Lighting Design Awards 2026, and I wanted to personally remind you about the Early Bird opportunity. Until April 30th, 2026, you can receive 10% off your entry fee by submitting during the Early Bird period. It is a great moment to...
The Sphere Held Its Breath
When my wife and I stepped into the Sphere, the first thing that hit us was how warm and muted everything looked—like the whole place was lit at around 1800K with a very nice and relaxing glow. The Sphere lighting design I’d walked in fully expecting to be blasted...
The Sphere’s Other Skin
The Las Vegas Sphere may be the most photographed building on earth, yet almost none of those images show what lighting designers care about most—what happens inside. While the Las Vegas Sphere’s exterior draws attention, its Sphere interior lighting tells the real...
The Illumination of the Burj Khalifa
From Concept to Skyline: Crafting the World’s Tallest Lighting Experience At Light + Intelligent Building Middle East, I had the pleasure of introducing a presentation that felt less like a technical case study and more like a rare look behind the curtain of one of...
Rewiring Lighting Design Workflows with AI
How AE7 Is Rewiring Lighting Design Workflows with AI—Without Losing Design Authorship Artificial intelligence is no longer a side experiment in lighting design. At Light + Intelligent Building Middle East, a standing-room-only workshop made that point unmistakably...
Lighting Beyond Vision
Peter Veale Explains the Importance of Looking at Lighting Beyond Vision At Light + Intelligent Building Middle East, one of the most engaging sessions stepped away from fixtures and specifications. Instead, it focused on how lighting shapes human perception. I...
Submit to Speak at SALC 2026
The 2026 Call for Presentations Close February 3 Submissions for consideration for the 2026 IES Street and Area Lighting Conference in Phoenix, AZ, are being accepted through February 3, 2026. Seminar sessions generally run 25-35 minutes. Street and Area Lighting...
January Lightovation Sees Significant Year-Over-Year Attendance Growth
January 15, 2025 - Lightovation, the largest residential lighting trade event in North America, delivered its strongest show attendance in multiple years, according to Dallas Market Center. Attendance growth was driven by buyer traffic from all 50 states and...
Winners of the Light Middle East Awards 2026 announced in Dubai
The winners of the Light Middle East Awards 2026 were announced on 14 January at Conrad Dubai Now in its 12th edition, the awards celebrated excellence across the Project of the Year, Product of the Year, andPartner of the Year categories The Light Middle East Awards...
Form Without Friction
Form Without Friction In 2025, Elite Lighting continued to evolve its architectural portfolio with a clear objective: enable bold design intent without introducing downstream complexity. Every new system and enhancement was engineered to balance creative freedom with...
Light Can Help You Launches LDX
Light Can Help You Launches LDX: The Lighting Design Experience — A New Revenue Engine for Custom Integrators Seeking to Grow Lighting Sales Golden, CO — [January 2026] — Light Can Help You, one of the nation’s leading residential lighting design firms, today...
Alloy LED Introduces VariTune™ 4.3 COB Tunable White Tape Light
Part of Alloy LED’s new tunable line, the VariTune™ 4.3 COB Tunable Tape Light combines full-spectrum white control with the ultra-smooth output of Chip-on-Board (COB) technology. This tape light produces a continuous, dot-free line of illumination, ensuring...
Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Mentorship, and the Future of Lighting Design
One of the most thoughtful sessions I attended at Light Middle East this year wasn’t about products or controls—it was about people. Specifically, how multidisciplinary collaboration, mentorship, and emerging technologies like AI are reshaping the lighting design...


