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Raina Kattelson is renowned stylist who’s work has been seen in magazines including Country Living and Anthology. She’s worked with designers Thom Filicia, Darren Henault and Matthew Patrick Smyth. 

We’re going to talk about what a stylist does and why it’s critical to our business. Join us as we hangout live! Follow me on G+ or Twitter for links to hangout on G+ and YouTube.

In order for the design industry to thrive we must learn to do what we do sustainably. We must think about the impact our practices today will have on future generations. This Thursday at 5pm EST I’ll be hosting a Google Hangout with Heidi Vassalotti, sustainability guru for Crossville Tile.  

Crossville has accomplished some amazing sustainability milestones in the last few years including:

• becoming a net consumer of waste, in other words Crossville consumes more waste than it creates. 
• integrated recycled content into production of 100% of the company’s product lines.
• entering a landmark partnership with TOTO, to recycle pre-consumer fired porcelain fixures.
• creating the incredible Tile Take-Back Program

We’re going to talk about the philosophy behind Crossville’s sustainability initiatives and how Crossville took good intentions to profitable actions. You can join us live on Google Plus or watch on Youtube. Be sure to follow me on G+ or Twitter to catch the link when we go live Thursday at 5PM EST. 

Dear Readers,  

My current work situation makes it very difficult to get get any writing of substance done for the website. I’m doing my best to blog regularly, but it’s been tricky. However, I’ve been far from inactive on the web. You can find me in a few places.

As of late I’ve been much more active on G+ posting not only to our Interior Design Community but sharing links and information on things lighting. If you haven’t spent any real time on G+ I encourage you to, it’s a place where there’s a lot less noise and much more depth.  

I’ve been active on instagram for a long time, I even published a book of lighting inspirations shared with Instagram called Lightstagram. Want to know what I’m up to? Here’s a good place to check.  

I’ve taken to writing the occasional essay. Its something of a hobby of mine. If you’d like to glean my musings on things not lighting related, Medium is a good place to look. BTW, there is some fantastic writing on Medium in general. I really enjoy it as a social network.  

I write a monthly piece for Lighting Magazine. Generally these pieces are deep dives into specific issues facing our industry. My latest piece examined the value of CRI as a metric when specifying light sources. If you’re interested in lighting at all, make sure you follow the magazine. 

So that’s me around the web. I’ll be writing more for my own blog as well, but in the mean time, you can find me all over the web. You can also follow me twitter. 

Thanks so much for your continued interest. More to share soon!

Lux Magazine is up with an interesting short read. It’s commonplace for LED manufacturers to claim 50,000 hour life for their products, but that could lead to future litigation. 

From the piece:

The indispensible LightNow Blog is up with this piece on the IALD’s 30th Annual International Lighting Design Awards. ​One project in particular was especially spectacular. Pfarre` Lighting Design received Radiance Award for Excellence in Lighting Design for their project The Hafencity-University Subway Station in Hamburg. ​​

Craig did a fantastic write up of the ​

​Dancing With The Stars is a perpetual ratings winner for ABC. The show is many things - dance competition, celebrity gawk-fest and of course reality TV spectacle. But what keeps me watching is the incredible live broadcast ABC puts together every week. Specifically, the incredible lighting accomplished by Emmy-nominated Simon Miles and his team. It’s not easy to create variety week after week and Miles and his team do that. I also love the musicality of the lighting designs. So as you watch the finale tonight, remember the lighting. 

When Frankie came along I had to start taking morning walks. I’ve come to love them and the light they bring.

Tonight, lighting stuff can wait. My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Oklahoma. I cannot imagine what a living through a tornado is like. Especially one of this kind of power. ​

Stay safe tonight. Thought and Prayers are with you. ​

Tonight, lighting stuff can wait. My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Oklahoma. I cannot imagine what a living through a tornado is like. Especially one of this kind of power. ​

Stay safe tonight. Thought and Prayers are with you. ​

So I think Yahoo!’s acquisition of tumblr is going to finally push me off the platform. 

I have basically two reasons. Tumblr will inevitably become a more bland network, it’s just the nature of big corporate ownership. The risky, arty stuff that gets posted to tumblr will likely get diluted. 

But even if that doesn’t happen a large motivation for Yahoo!’s purchase was access to Tumblr’s audience for serving ads. I don’t want my blog to become an ad platform. 

I won’t be deleting my blog. Instead I’ll be focusing on my official blog and making it a more complete sharing platform. Many of those posts will still be pushed here.