Scraps of Paper
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“Mainly with a lot of template work on the floor. Rob Howell [set and costume designer] had a eureka moment when he hit upon basing the scenic design on tessellating squares of different sizes. Nearly everything is made from tiles, a little like Scrabble tiles. Once he arrived at that, I thought, “Well great, because whenever I’m doing anything in light, I can take the same approach.” I do a lot of corridors of light going between various rooms in the Wormwood’s house, and they all have jagged square edges, picking up that tile motif. That’s something I worked in a good deal to the design: for example, a window in the headmistress’s office that’s made with tessellated tile mullions.” —I love hearing insights from brilliant designers on how they create scenes.
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What DC lacks in cool it makes up for in beauty.
Mother nature provides a hell of a lot of inspiration for lighting design, doesn’t she?
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Never ceases to amaze me what Lighting Design Students come up with….
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LED installation at tribeca film festival opening
(by BW architects) [via]
(via floresenelatico)
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Green is A Number - A Creative Stage Lighting Webinar I just found this on the Creative Stage Lighting Blog, and this is about an hour and 20 minutes’ worth of your time that will come in handy in the future. From Kevin Loretto’s Creative Stage Light…
This week @JimOnLight was good enough to share a presentation I did with Richard Cadena for the B’way Green Alliance. Interested in how to approach your next lighting design in a more sustainable way? Check it out.
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Ross Lovegrove for Lasvit: Nodules
Using glass as an optical reservoir, the Nodules are handmade spherical lenses fused together in the making process to harness the natural physics of the material. A fiber optic light source delivers an intense white light from a remote point so that the relationship between the stem and Nodule is minimized and mysterious. The unique installations rise from the floor in clusters.
In the age of LED we forget about how amazing fiber optics can be for lighting design. Not only can fiber get light to places that sometimes even LED can’t reach, but the quality of light is often much better.
This installation is a thing of beauty.
(via inthewell)
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Stratford Island on Flickr.
Stratford Island in East London
This is a very cool lighting installation in East London.
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Three Ways To Market Your Business With Lighting
If you run a small business you’re constantly thinking of ways to make your marketing more effective. You market your business online, you have great brand collateral, when people visit your store they experience amazing customer service. So how else can you market your business?
Have You Considered Lighting as Part of Your Marketing Strategy?
I know, I know lighting? Great lighting design is all about creating a lighting scheme that meets your goals as a business. If one of those goals is to make your brand more memorable for your customers, there’s not better way to accomplish that then with terrific lighting design.
The Tale of Two Restaurants
I love hamburgers. I really do. They are a serious vice of mine. But I came to realize something, the lighting of two of my favorite burger joints Bareburger and Five Guys expresses the difference lighting can make in creating decor and extending your brand. Take a look at the two photos below.
Bareburger is home to organic burgers made from a wide variety of sustainable meat options. Sustainability and respect for food sources is baked into their brand. They’ve taken the time to design a decor that reflects this complete with eclectic light fixtures made from found objects. Five Guys on the other hand is all about getting you a classic all american burger at a fair price. Their lighting is basic and “get the job done.” In each case, the decor of the spaces reflects the brand and lighting is a huge part of that.
Three Ways You Can Market Your Brand With Lighting
Below is a quick slideshow I put together giving three broad ways your marketing efforts can be enhanced with lighting. Take a look and if you have thoughts or questions, you know where to find me!
