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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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: 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...

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...

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...

Over the past year, I’ve become a repeat customer at AI sessions. I’ve sat in packed rooms at Boston Lights, IALD Enlighten Americas, ArchLIGHT Summit, and the NALMCO Convention, laptop in hand, trying to make sense of what this technology really means for our...

At Light Middle East in Dubai, a compelling sessions explored how lighting design has evolved alongside the rapid transformation of the Middle East. Delivered by Ziad Fattouh, founding partner of Delta Lighting Design, the talk offered a rare, firsthand perspective on...

https://youtu.be/GR54TeiS6_Q?si=NxTb28sG6dQABOuP In this conversation, I sat down with Paul Pompeo to discuss the creation of the 25 Most Influential People in Lighting – 2025. Pompeo explains how the idea originated, why influence deserves recognition alongside...

Above: 2025 LUMEN AWARD OF MERIT Charter Communications Headquarters, Stamford, CT Lighting Design by Spark Studio Lighting Design CALL FOR ENTRIES EXTENDED DEADLINE January 16th 1 Extra Week to Submit! The spotlight is yours—and now you have extra time to submit!...

It was a high school art teacher, respected Canadian artist John Viljoen, who unknowingly set Stephen Kaye on a path to lighting design. “I thought I was going to be an architect, so I was really drawn to art. Viljoen’s teachings and guidance got me through high...

Dallas, TX – January 6, 2025 - Koncept Lighting is excited to announce its participation in Lightovation 2026 at the Dallas Market Center. Visitors are invited to explore the latest in innovative lighting solutions, including award-winning designs and our latest...

DarkSky International recently released an organizational statement in response to Reflect Orbital’s proposal to use in-space mirrors to reflect sunlight to Earth at night. Grounded in current scientific understanding and guided by the Five Principles of Responsible...

Energy codes and lighting standards were written for visual performance…