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Resisting the economy

Singapore, 26th November 2012 It is interesting to see and understand how the economy impacts on our projects. I am sharing from my personal observation, not sure if it is representative across the board…with the economy under pressure in all corners … Continue reading

26. November 2012 by Martin Klaasen
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Suppliers and contractors

Perth-Singapore, 8-9th November 2012 Travelling is not always conducive to my blog 🙂 Yesterday I had a lot on my plate before heading to the airport late afternoon and once I had arrived back in Singapore late last night did not … Continue reading

09. November 2012 by Martin Klaasen
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Testing

Perth, 5th November 2012 Subjecting your lighting concept to visual tests (or visual mock-ups) is crucial to make sure your assumptions in regards to how light will interact with the subject are correct. I spent a good part of this … Continue reading

05. November 2012 by Martin Klaasen
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F1 ast forward

Singapore, 24th September 2012 Operation moving, successfully completed! I am now in transit in Singapore on my way to Indonesia for the coming days. Surely you will all have read about the F1 night race that was held last night … Continue reading

24. September 2012 by Martin Klaasen
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Day tripper

Kuala Lumpur, 14th September 2012 But not a one way ticket, yeah! I am in KL for the day, my third day in a row in Malaysia, though I made an overnight stop in Singapore. As I am attending to … Continue reading

15. September 2012 by Martin Klaasen
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Amazing progress

Singapore, 11th September 2012 Probably a little over a year ago I was still pretty sceptical about the performance of LED technology in outdoor flood lighting applications, but I have to admit the technology has caught up with me! As … Continue reading

11. September 2012 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, light watch, lighting applications, lighting design, lighting of the future | 1 comment

China 3

Shanghai, 31st August 2012 Once you can weed through all the contractual, administrative and design technical matters there is still a lot of satisfaction to be got from doing projects in China. The fact is that China wants to show … Continue reading

31. August 2012 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and the economy, lighting design practice | 2 comments

China 2

Shanghai, 30th August 2012 So business in China is still good. Even though most financial analysts suspect that the latest economic growth figures (reported to be more than 7%) are inflated, fact is that you just have to look around … Continue reading

30. August 2012 by Martin Klaasen
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China

Shanghai, 29th August 2012 My regular blog followers will have noticed I don’t spent that much time in China anymore…today I am back in Shanghai and while it is nice to be back in a city I used to come … Continue reading

30. August 2012 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and the economy, lighting design practice | 2 comments

Design style

Perth, 23nd August 2012 What is design style, what is the right lighting design style if there is such thing? I had an interesting meeting today as we are in the process of developing a lighting concept for a theatre … Continue reading

23. August 2012 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, light and art, Light and inspiration, light watch, lighting design | 5 comments

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