Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
Color experts PANTONE have partnered with Danish lighting company e3light on a collection of color-focused lighting. PANTONE Light’s COLL. ONE series brings the simplicity of PANTONE color swatches to six different fixtures. Inspired by e3light’s Scandinavian roots, the lighting merges functionality with minimalist forms that result in a playful collection.
At progressive offices, access to natural light is high on the list of mood-boosting on-site benefits.
It looks like something straight out of a children’s activity book. You trace a tube of puff paint-like ink through a maze of lines, and then you rip apart a few perforated paper sections. A few patient minutes later, you don’t just have a work of art–you have a working lamp.
In the past century, technological improvements in lights have soared, making way for brighter, lighter, cheaper, and more flexible options into the market. Yet one issue persists: light glare. Rising up to this challenge is designer Todd Bracher, Humanscale, and a team of physicists who have successfully created Vessel, a series of award-winning light pendants made from quartz and an LED light source that lights up without any escaping blinding glare.
Oleant’s latest luminaire created by chief designer Peter Danczkay, is so environmentally friendly that they are using one of the most distinctive plants from the nordic region to cover it.
Steelcase will offer a collection of FLOS lighting throughout the U.S. and Canada, with availability expected in November 2017.
With the advent of solid state lighting, often referred to as LEDs, and the digital controls that accompany it, tuning in to a specific “color” of white light is now possible. In the past, a light source’s color was fixed based on either technology, or a mix of phosphors specific to a bulb, or lamp. Now a single light source can be tuned to output warm white light, cool white light, and anything in between.
Since we first discovered Cerno, we knew there was something different about them. Located in Southern California, Cerno co-founders Nick Sheridan, Dan Wacholder, and Bret Englander have built an authentic brand of lighting and furnishings that are designed and made in the place they grew up in. What started with a childhood friendship has resolved into a strong brand with a unique aesthetic.
Founded in 1982, ITC specializes in making LED lighting products for the marine, recreational vehicle and office furniture industries. The company said it also developing new business opportunities in retail display and architectural lighting.
Charging stations are a without a doubt a modern day necessity—tablets, laptops, phones —all require charging throughout the day. LUX LED Lighting, manufacturer of innovative lighting solutions, has introduced a task light that provides a functional spot for charging, while also offering easy-to-use touch-activated LED illumination.
We know from earlier work on fluorescent lighting that even though the flicker is too fast to be visible, it remains a likely health hazard. In 1989, my colleagues and I compared fluorescent lighting that flickered 100 times a second with lights that appeared the same but didn’t flicker. We found that office workers were half as likely on average to experience headaches under the non-flickering lights.
Architects and designers worth their salt acknowledge that lighting design — when thoughtfully executed — can greatly enhance their projects, from focal interior walls and temporary installations to massive structures and façades. Perhaps that’s why the annual Lumen Awards, founded by the Illuminating Engineering Society’s New York City chapter (IESNYC) to celebrate excellence in lighting design, has become an increasingly significant awards program in our industry.
There are showrooms, and then there are showrooms. The new FLOS Scandinavia showroom in Denmark designed by OEO Studio is definitely the latter.
Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. Wasted electricity, excessive or uneven illumination, and difficulty concentrating are three top complaints of office workers.
Designer Leslie Nooteboom created a lamp that algorithmically generates images that capture the dynamism of natural light coming in through a window.
With lighting evolving as quickly as other forms of technology, it’s important to keep a few key pieces of information in mind to create the best spaces possible.
Lighting Science has long understood the implications this technology can have in an educational, workplace, or health care environment, and is currently working across these industries to generate scientifically-accurate data that will change the lighting industry forever.
