Category Archives for lighting design
In the mood…
Singapore, 14th February 2011 The world today celebrates Valentine’s Day…as far as I am concerned a commercially driven celebration to get people to spent money on diners, gifts and flowers. But somehow people need occasions to celebrate things…We have just … Continue reading
Samples
Singapore, 7th February 2011 With the main Chinese New Year celebrations behind us life is slowly returning to normal in Asia. For many Chinese traditional activities still continues but for most it is back to business as usual. I am … Continue reading
Lighting supply
Mumbai, 2nd February 2011 Lighting suppliers are a critical part in our lighting design chain of processes. We conceptualise, we detail, we select and specify the lights and need to approve the manufacturer/ supplier that will have to deliver the … Continue reading
Balance of brightness
Singapore, 28th January 2011 Yes I did make it back! With some delays, but I managed to touch down back in Singapore before midnight allowing me a good night’s rest, which I needed after the Indonesia excitement. As a result … Continue reading
Entrepreneurship
Singapore, 19th January 2011 One of my clients in Indonesia is Ciputra, one of the biggest property developers around. This evening I therefore made it a point to watch an interview with the man, who is an example of great … Continue reading
365 days!
Perth 28th October 2010 After 365 days without missing a beat I have finally completed my challenge of one year of daily blogging! When I embarked on this project exactly one year ago I had no idea whether I would manage … Continue reading
Proven concepts
Singapore 22nd October 2010 As lighting designers we want to be creative and find new solutions and ideas for every new project. At least we start out that way and are always in the hope and search to create that … Continue reading
Write ups
Singapore 20th October 2010 As part of our work we often have to provide write-ups. These can be conceptual stories to support our designs, technical write ups in our lighting documents or promotional write ups for publications or other marketing … Continue reading
View from the top (2)
Singapore 17th October 2010 Having a “helicopter” view on a lighting installation can be very revealing. Most of the time we see our installations from relatively close distance, often also because of limited viewing distances. Building lighting installations designed for … Continue reading
The agony of supplies
Singapore 11th October 2010 D-Day is approaching and we still haven’t got our lights! I am talking about the domes with LED lights that we ordered months ago from China for our artwork. The grand opening of the festival is … Continue reading

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