Category Archives for light watch
Preparations
Singapore 19-20th April 2013 Sometimes when I reach Friday I am like…phew…that’s another week gone. I was off at 6.30 to go for a drink with a friend and never came back before late….so here is a weekend edition 🙂 … Continue reading
Questions, questions…
Singapore 18th April 2013 Some project fee submission can be soooo time consuming! I blogged about RFP’s yesterday, today we had another one that needed me to sit in for nearly an hour to just go through the list of … Continue reading
Boomerang projects
Singapore 17th April 2013 As lighting designers we need projects to stay in the fray; to get projects we need to receive an invitation to quote for our services (an RFP, a request for proposal) and to receive an invitation … Continue reading
In Control
Singapore 16th April 2013 Lighting designers tend to focus mainly on lighting effects, but one of the most crucial elements of any lighting design is the ease of operation, switches and controls, manual or programmed. In one of our projects … Continue reading
Today’s sneaky economy
Singapore 15th April 2013 When you travel as I do you get confronted with all the inconveniences of travel as well, delays, detours, additional charges en costs… as I was travelling back to Singapore yesterday I had plenty of time … Continue reading
Numbers
Perth 12th April 2013 I don’t know how my colleagues work but I would assume that budget planning is part and parcel of the lighting design services. It’s all nice and good to create a beautiful lighting design but it … Continue reading
Joy and disappointment
Perth 11th April 2013 I have just been notified that a lighting event that was to be held in Qatar next month has been cancelled (actually postponed)…that’s really disappointing. A phone call from the organisers informed me that they found … Continue reading
Sharing
Perth 10th April 2013 While I am preparing some presentations for upcoming speaking engagements and doing a remote magazine interview, I am very much aware that as we grow older, supposedly wiser and have more experience, we have the duty … Continue reading
Dressed for the job
Perth 9th April 2013 Don’t know what’s going on with the weather, but it seems like rather extreme opposites right now! We had a white Easter with snow and freezing temperatures in Europe just a week ago and we are … Continue reading
Majet again!
Jakarta 5th April 2013 As I write my blog I have just spent another two hours in the car on my way to the airport for my flight back to Singapore. Another mega “majet” (traffic jam)…I barely managed to check … Continue reading
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