Monthly Archives for February 2010
“Free” lighting design by others
Australia, 28th February 2010 On my Sunday of reflection I would like to touch on what I call the “other lighting designers”. People who offer lighting design, generally “free”, as part of other services. I am triggered by this because … Continue reading
The “Good Guys”
Australia, 27th February 2010 In Australia we have a chain of stores that call themselves the “Good Guys”. Not sure if they exist overseas, but they pride themselves on their excellent service, excellent pricing smiling attitude and no questions asked … Continue reading
Design for the “outback”
Perth, 26th February 2010 Just returned from a trip to “outback” Australia…well not really, but Kalgoorlie (a little town 500km east of Perth) is certainly not your example of a vibrant big city life and its outer suburbs are certainly … Continue reading
Judging designs
Perth, 25th February 2010 Today I wrote in a view words my comments on the award winning designs from interior designers that have submitted projects for the International Ring Awards organized by the ICIAD (the International Council of Interior Architect … Continue reading
Lighting catalogues
Perth, 24th February 2010 As lighting designers we rely heavily on our experience when specifying products for our lighting designs. The more experienced we are the better we also can read manufacturers product catalogues. Suppliers that have been around for … Continue reading
CRI and LED
Perth, 23rd February 2010 We are of course well familiar with the color rendering index (CRI) for traditional white light sources like halogen, metal halide or fluorescent. But when it comes to the CRI for white LED’s we are still … Continue reading
Lux meters
Perth, 22nd February 2010 Yesterday I mentioned about lighting levels. We all know that we need a lux meter to measure it. But how useful is it? We human’s actually don’t see light, we see reflections! Lux meters measure the … Continue reading
Broadcast lighting levels
Perth, 21st February 2010 With the Winter Olympics in Vancouver moving into its second week I guess we have all been able to catch some of the sporting heroics on TV at some point in time. Because of the worldwide … Continue reading
Lighting and turtle breeding
Perth, 20th February 2010 This blog is long overdue and quite different from your average architectural lighting design project! Lighting Images has been involved over a period of about 2 years in exploring the environmental impact of lighting to the … Continue reading
Mobile lighting
Perth 19th February 2010 I am not going to talk about torches or head lamps. Today I wanted to touch upon temporary mobile lighting equipment. Most of the time when we engage in lighting design we always design for a fixed … Continue reading
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