In 25 years + of lighting design I have done 2 things regularly … one is placing thousands of downlights in projects, the other is prepared and eaten almost as many meals … I like to cook, so I will share my recipes with you for designing beautiful rooms with ceiling...
I was hasty and should be more respectful! But I can’t help disagreeing with 1.375 Million answers….many of you agree with ME! Following on my research from the last Blog and Internet Formulas… The Question was: Client - “I want some lights in my room…how many...
So I asked Google the same question the client asked: Client: “I want some lights in my room…how many should I have for the right lighting effect?” I got 1,375 Million results, many refer to some crude formula. As a curious person I followed the results for a simple...
“Pendant”, a word that we use for jewelry and hanging styles of lights, the thing they both have in common is decorative and is designed to be a compliment. How you look and perceive a space matters, from a mathematical, engineer’s solution a pendant light will give...
Not including theatre, which is important but a specialised field we can learn from, Lighting for the built environment has developed 2 co-existing skill sets, The “engineering” of lighting design laying down suggested lux levels, uniformity and rules by which a...
The quest of a perfect wash of light on a wall I always thought of as a bit “four sprung dur , technic” if you get my metaphor…the light had to be even as it fell on the surface and with a uniformity from top to bottom of no greater than 3:1 as the human eye...
When I design the lighting in a home it sounds “counter intuitive” to leave lights on in unoccupied rooms, especially when automation and control is so accessible and energy is an important topic. “Vista”, the one simple reason. Planning the lighting is not just about...
Our Language about light proves the emotion we feel about it, the way we perceive it as humans. We “wash” a wall with light, we create “scallops” …it is “dappled”, “shimmering”, “glistening” , light creates an emotional response deep within us. Life is often described...