DALLAS – June 10, 2026 - Dallas Market Center’s ArchLIGHT Summit, the growing annual lighting trade and educational event for the architectural, specification, and design communities, has opened attendee registration for its September 15-16, 2026 show and announced...

After forty years of continuous practice, Mark Major is stepping down from his role as Senior Partner at Speirs Major Light Architecture (SMLA). He will remain a consultant to the practice. Major co-founded Speirs and Major in London with the late Jonathan Speirs in...

Denver, CO — HLB Lighting Design announces the promotion of Michael Lindsey to Principal. Michael, who has been with the firm for nearly two decades, began his career at HLB as an intern and has since grown into one of the firm’s most dedicated leaders - a trajectory...

There was a time when David Seok expected to return to “being an architect...after all that was what my degree was in.”But lighting had other plans for David: challenged as a Drexel University architecture student to find an architectural internship during the...

PORT WASHINGTON, NY-- WAC Group announces the appointment of Ryan Radke as Executive Director of Business Development – Commercial at WAC Group. He will lead strategic growth initiatives and manage key customer and sales representative relationships across the...

Tivoli Lighting Introduces TRACE Pro™, a High-Performance Linear Lighting Platform with Advanced Control, Compact Design, and Universal Mounting  New system delivers static, dynamic, RGBW, and pixel technologies in a rugged 1x1 profile for seamless specification...

It’s a situation most lighting designers have experienced: a project you spent months designing comes back with arequest to review and accept a VE package. You’ve seen it time and time again, a package of substitutions with acarrot of cost savings and a deadline....

Fisher Marantz Stone (FMS) is thrilled to celebrate the announcement that our founder, Jules Fisher, is receiving the 2026 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Lighting Designer Jules Fisher is long considered the “gold standard” of the art...

2026 IESNYC Lumen Gala Sales Lumen Gala – June 18, 2026 Pier 60, Chelsea Piers Join us for an inspiring celebration of excellence in lighting design!  This special event shines a spotlight on the Lumen Awards recipients, honoring their outstanding achievements,...

What Are You Doing Friday Night? Catch Manhattanhenge with NextGen’s “Slice of Light” REGISTER TODAY! Friday, May 29, 2026  |  5:30 PM to 8:00 PM BASO Showroom 133 West 19th St, New York, NY Add to Calendar  Get Directions Join Us in Chelsea for a Spectacular...

Late at night, far from shore, the work never stops. Inside a control room monitoring offshore wind farms—one in the United States, another in the Baltic—operators sit before walls of data, tracking performance, responding to alerts, and maintaining constant...

Baltimore, MD, USA – May 27, 2026 – Buzzer and Skylum launched  to enhance a wide range of interior and exterior applications Buzzer is a groundbreaking family of bollards, path markers and wall fixtures designed for the exterior illumination of pedestrian walkways,...

An Evening of Light, Design, and Culinary Experience Join the Designers Lighting Forum of New England for one of our most anticipated events of the year—Movable Feast—a curated evening that blends exceptional lighting design with Boston’s vibrant restaurant scene....

The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) has officially announced its 31st Quadrennial Session, scheduled for 9–17 July 2027 in Nanjing, China — a city where centuries of dynastic history coexist with a thriving modern research landscape. Hosted by the China...

ALPHARETTA, Georgia, May 26, 2026 — “Start smart” is the message that design build professionals are increasingly internalizing as new research shows that early collaboration between design build professionals and integrators yields significant gains in the success of...

There are moments on residential projects when the drawings are complete, the luminaires are installed, and the house is finally illuminated, yet something still feels unresolved. Over the years, I’ve learned that when a project struggles at the finish line, it is...

Earlier this year, I joined a panel discussion hosted by AN’s editor in chief Jack Murphy and organized by Be Original Americas at the Davide Groppi showroom in New York. Titled “Illuminating Wellness,” it was a conversation about how interior lighting shapes the...

On Friday, May 15, the design community gathered for Lodes’ NYCxDESIGN Preview. Taking place at Scavolini’s SoHo Gallery, the contemporary Italian lighting brand unveiled its stunning new suspension lamp, Axia, for the first time stateside. Representing a delicate...

The lighting industry runs on international talent. Two immigration attorneys and two lighting professionals break down the path to permanent residency and what employers must do to support their teams. Lighting design is a global profession. Walk into any prominent...

The first time Kate Hickcox saw the space, it wasn’t really a place at all. It was a fenced-off void in the middle of the Lillian Wald New York City Housing Authority campus—green, technically, but inaccessible, unlit, and unused. Paths around it fell into shadow at...