Category Archives for light watch
The last few stages
Perth, 11th August 2014 Back to work after a long weekend break in Phuket, courtesy of Singapore’s national day celebrations. I had a long day in Jakarta last week to review the progress of the installation works on a hotel … Continue reading
Communication 2
Jakarta, 6th August 2014 Now here is another piece of communication that comes totally out of left corner. Before I left Singapore this morning where I still had a submission deadline to complete, I was also confronted with a piece … Continue reading
Communication
Singapore, 5th August 2014 It is not a secret that in our line of work, communication is key. There are many ways to communicate and there is a very obvious difference between the written and spoken words. We have several … Continue reading
Lighting manipulators
Singapore, 4th August 2014 Really when you think about it lighting designers are manipulators…our task is to control and manipulate light into a shape and form that makes sense and produces a performance that is the right light at the … Continue reading
Percent for the art
Singapore, 1st August 2014 Australia has a Percent for the Art scheme that require any developer, whether private or government, to spend a percentage of the development costs on art. The policy requires the developers to allocate 1 percent of … Continue reading
No budget, no glory
Singapore, 31st July 2014 July has come and gone…Is it me or is time just zooming past? How do you deal with clients who have no budget or better still have money (we know the mother company has plenty of … Continue reading
Buddha
Singapore, 30th July 2014 Today was in the sign of Buddha. We had a kick off meeting for a new project in Nanjing ,close to the location that is known as the centre of Buddhism in China. As history goes … Continue reading
Daylight management
Singapore, 29th July 2014 Back at work today after a long weekend, which saw the Muslim community celebrate the end of Ramadan (Eid Al Fitr) yesterday, we had workers come into our office to fit special films on our windows … Continue reading
Whats wrong with suppliers!
Singapore, 25th July 2014 Sometimes you want to shoot some of your lighting suppliers! Either they are plain dumb or plain arrogant…Another round of frustration today when we assessed tender submissions from 3 pre-selected suppliers for one of our projects. … Continue reading
LED: 2500K is the new 2700K
Singapore, 24th July 2014 Something that has been bugging our team for a long time is the notion that incandescent light colour has to be 2700K. While manufacturers have been improving day by day in getting us good colour consistency … Continue reading
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