Category Archives for Education
Patience
Perth 16th June 2011 Patience is a virtue they say…In our job as lighting designer we need to exercise patience at various times, in many ways, specifically with clients. They take their time with everything. Specifically when it comes to … Continue reading
Developping the relationship
Perth 14thJune 2011 I would like to elaborate a bit more on yesterdays’ topic of doing a paid conceptual design as a way of “getting to know each other” rather than providing speculative design in the hope of being selected. … Continue reading
Earth Check
Singapore 7th June 2011 When I recently attended the Hospitality Architecture and Design conference (HAD) I came to know about an organisation called Earth Check. I probably should have known about this company long ago but I didn’t. Their website … Continue reading
Networking
Singapore 31st May 2011 Today I spent the whole day at the HA+D (Hotel Architecture and Design) conference listening to interesting topics regarding the future of the hotel industry and networking with people I know, people I had not seen … Continue reading
Moral ownership and copyright
Singapore 26th May 2011 Intellectual property is always an interesting topic. I am currently putting the last hand to our website (watch out coming out very soon now!) and as we are in the process of putting our company project … Continue reading
Link between fees and quality
Singapore 25th May 2011 The last few days I have been discussing our fees with client and operator for a project that is positioned at the high end of the scale, in other words a 6 (7?) star hospitality development. … Continue reading
Business development
Singapore 5th May 2011 Doing fee proposals is obviously a key part of running our business as without fee proposals you don’t have any outlook on potential work. But there is a whole world out there before you can actually … Continue reading
Teach the teacher
Singapore 4th May 2011 One of the great challenges of any company (boss) is to teach its incoming staff the finer details of work…the way things are done in the company. To me, my staff is my greatest asset as … Continue reading
what’s in our fees
Singapore, 8th April 2011 Doing fee proposals as I have mentioned on several occasions before is our life blood. As long as we keep doing fee proposals we are in the game. So I should be in a good mood … Continue reading
Lighting levels
Singapore, 5th April 2011 As part of our lighting documentation we include areas that are to be controlled by scene setting, generally the case in hospitality, general public spaces, spa’s and the like. Our control schedules indicate the “looping” of … Continue reading
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