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The week that was 2-6 March

Singapore, weekend 7-8th March 2015 Monday 2; Sydney – Balancing act Being able to balance business and private family life is something that is crucial and a challenge for anyone and not easy by any count. It becomes easier if … Continue reading

07. March 2015 by Martin Klaasen
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The week that was 23-28th February

Perth, weekend 28th February 2015 Monday 23; Perth – Size does not matter Back in beautiful Perth for the week, I have a couple of project meetings lined up as well as meetings for new potential projects. Despite the general … Continue reading

27. February 2015 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, Light and inspiration, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and the economy, lighting applications, lighting design, lighting design practice, lighting of the future | Leave a comment

The (short) week that was…February 16-18

Singapore, Chinese New Year long weekend 19-22nd February 2015 Monday 16; Singapore – The Chinese New Year’s rush It is a short work week this week with many companies already shutting down for Chinese New Year and from those companies … Continue reading

21. February 2015 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: Light and inspiration, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and the economy, lighting applications, lighting design, lighting design practice, lighting standards | Leave a comment

The week that was…26-30th January

Monday 26; Perth: Australia Day As much as I have difficulty connecting with Singapore’s National Day (which is really for Singaporeans in celebration of their “home anniversary”), I do connect with Australia Day as it has been “my home” for … Continue reading

31. January 2015 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, light and art, Light and inspiration, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting applications, lighting design, lighting design practice, lighting standards | Leave a comment

The week that was: 19-23 January

Singapore, weekend 24th January 2015 Monday 19; Singapore: Traffic jam I am slowly getting back in the groove; for some reason it really took me a while to get over my jetlag. This Monday was a busy day with many … Continue reading

23. January 2015 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: city beautification, Light & Learn, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and sustainability, lighting design, lighting design practice, lighting standards | 3 comments

12.12.1212

Perth, 12th December 2014 It seems a fitting date to end season 5 of blogging, the 12th of the 12th after coincidentally 1212 blogs! As it happens todays blog is number 1212, quite a respectable number of what started as … Continue reading

12. December 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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I am an (lighting) architect

Singapore, 1st December 2014 Sometimes you come across some Facebook or YouTube material that relates to our business and makes you smile in recognition. In this case I was sent links to some videos in which architects rap about their … Continue reading

01. December 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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The lighting supplier

Singapore, 7th November 2014 As lighting designers our prime point of contact is mostly our local lighting suppliers, those who represent the big and smaller brands, sometimes their own makes. Now in LED Cowboy world life must be really tough … Continue reading

07. November 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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Confidentiality

Singapore, 31st October 2014 In our professional consultant’s business we deal most of the time with confidentiality issues. We are part of an early design and project team and get access to sensitive client information as part of the design … Continue reading

31. October 2014 by Martin Klaasen
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The Declaration of Green lighting design – Forum 15 (DOG #15)

Hong Kong, 28th October 2014 I will report about the actual Hong Kong Fair in tomorrow’s blog but today I want to share the DOG event which was held in conjunction with the fair today. The Chinese Lighting Designer Association … Continue reading

28. October 2014 by Martin Klaasen
Categories: Education, going green, Light & Learn, Light and inspiration, light watch, lighting and culture, lighting and sustainability, lighting design practice, lighting standards | Leave a comment

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