Jason Bruges Studio: Archive & Process Part 3
Part 3 of Jason Bruges Studio's Archive and Process series is all about the team. Jason Bruges Studio is loosely divided into a creative team and a technical team, but there is a consistent collaboration across the two departments.
In this session, we hear from Senior Designer Adam Wadey, Computational Designer Chris Waters, Creative Technologist Dhruv Kumar and Head of Production, Richard Broom. Each describe their route to the Studio, and their experiences working on recent projects.
Lightly Technologies acquired by Aamsco Lighting
(USA) – Acquisition gives Lightly Technologies more global accessibility and route to US market.
In an effort to achieve new designs in decorative lighting, Aamsco has acquired Lightly Technologies, creator of the Hikari SQ edge-lit LED panel.
Developed in 2016, Lightly Technologies founder and mechanical engineer Matt Hanbury worked on both OLED lighting and LCD smartphone displays. Combining his knowledge of these two sectors, he developed the Hikari SQ edge-lit LED panel, an ultra-thin light source with the appearance and design benefits of OLED lighting, but with the performance of LED technology.
Following the acquisition, the Lightly Technologies brand will be given more global accessibility, with strategic marketing in the US. The acquisition will also allow Aamsco Lighting to offer unique, ultra-thin lighting design, utilising both OLED and LED edge-lit panels.
Aamsco Lighting has been providing lighting solutions for companies around the world out of its factory in Summerville, SC since 1982. Its range, extending from miniature lamps to special fluorescents of all sizes, to the latest in LED technology, is suitable for a wide selection of industries, from commercial and hospitality to retail and residential.
www.aamsco.com
www.lightly.tech
On Stage: Les Éclaireurs
In an in-depth interview with On Stage Productions, Lucas Goy, Director of Les Éclaireurs, discusses the conceptual approach of lighting design, with a particular focus on lighting for urban areas. Throughout the documentary, Goy showcases some highlights from his own portfolio in Lyon, Paris and Porquerolles.
www.onstage.fr
www.leseclaireurs.net
IALD announces 2020 inductees to College of Fellows
(USA) – David Ghatan, Maureen Moran and Kevin Theobald inducted to College of Fellows.
The IALD has announced that three new members have been inducted to the IALD College of Fellows in 2020.
The IALD Fellow designation is awarded to members of the IALD for their valuable contribution to the art and science of lighting design, and for exemplary service to the IALD. Fellows are professional members with a minimum of 10 years of experience.
David Ghatan, Maureen Moran and Kevin Theobald were the 2020 inductees, formally inducted in an online event.
David Ghatan is deeply involved in lighting design through professional and personal pursuits, as well as his work with associations. President of CM Kling + Associates, Ghatan is the immediate Past President of the IALD, and has consistently been an active member of the association, serving as Treasurer from 2013 to 2017 and Director at Large from 2011 to 2013.
Maureen Moran began her lighting career as a lighting designer at Marriott Corporation, before transitioning to Coventry Lighting Associates as a designer. She established her form, MCLA, in 1996. Leadership, strategic thinking and mentoring have all figured prominently in her success as a designer and business owner. Moran advances the interests and mission of the lighting community through her active engagement with industry organisations such as IALD and IES.
Kevin Theobald has worked for the past 30 years in major London-based design practices, and with a background in theatre and museum lighting, boasts more than 40 years’ experience in lighting. A Fellow of SLL and an Affiliate Member of the ILP, Theobald has dedicated an enormous amount of time and expertise to the international design and build community, and especially to the IALD. He has served on the board of directors and is a Past President of the IALD, where during his tenure, Theobald oversaw the creation of the Certified Lighting Designer (CLD) program to establish a validated method for assessing the competency of designers and raise the visibility and standing of the profession.
Phos and Light Collective to co-host Light Tribe webinar
(UK) – Session to focus on Light Collective’s 10-year history and the concept of “Collectivism”.
As the UK enters another nationwide lockdown, Phos is continuing with its series of online webinars, hosted under the moniker The Light Tribe. The next session, held on 19th November at 11am GMT, will include Light Collective, who this year celebrate their 10th anniversary.
Throughout the hour-long session, Phos hope to celebrate the work of Light Collective’s Sharon Stammers and Martin Lupton, looking back on what they have achieved through their concept of “Collectivism”.
“This year saw the world adapt from in-person meetings and brainstorming sessions to the troubled antics of stuttering Zoom calls and muted Microsoft Teams discussions. It’s been a shock to us all but as we get into month 8, the importance of the design community sticking together is even more apparent,” said Phos.
“Over lockdown, we at Phos felt our passion for learning and educating could offer some form of entertainment during the forced time indoors, but when we started this jouney with our new side-arm, The Light Tribe, we were overwhelmed by the number of people who not only joined our webinars, but contributed during them, got in touch afterwards and asked how they might be able to get involved in the future.
“Designers have an amazing ability to see beauty where others see none, and we can do incredible things when we join together as a community. Our values were clear – unify, inspire and educate.
“As part of our mutual belief in the power of “collectivism”, we are co-hosting a webinar, where we will look at all of the incredible things that Light Collective have achieved over the past decade. This hour-long webinar will explore beautiful photos, the questions of collectivism, and welcomes the input of all attendees in the form of a Q&A. After all, we can all achieve more as a collective…”
Registration for the webinar is open now. Attendees can register here.
www.lighttribe.co.uk
www.phos.co.uk
www.lightcollective.net
IALD Enlighten Americas Online welcomes worldwide audience
(USA) – The online conference, held on 21-22 October, drew more than 600 attendees.
The IALD hosted its first ever online Enlighten Americas event on 21-22 October – a boutique conference for the international lighting design community, the event drew more than 600 attendees from around the world to its online platform, including designers, architects, students, educators, manufacturers and suppliers.
“While we all wish we could be together in person, our online Enlighten conferences still give us the opportunity to gather together as one strong community,” said Douglas Leonard, IALD President. “This year’s Enlighten Americas showcased a strong line up of lighting luminaries. The topics covered the challenges at hand, putting them front and centre for all of us to address and learn how to navigate. We continue to explore what inspires us, why we love lighting design and how we can support our profession’s continued growth.”
Marsha Turner, IALD CEO, added: “2020 has been a year of many ‘firsts’ for the IALD. And bringing IALD’s Enlighten conferences online this year has been another first for us. In addition to the strong content, our Enlighten events are typically a time to connect and reconnect – to catch up with long-time friends, meet new colleagues, be inspired and have a bit of fun, so we created events throughout the program that focused on connecting and networking virtually.”
Enlighten Americas kicked off with a leading international panel on What Inspires You and How is it Different Now Than When You First Started Lighting Design, where Keith Bradshaw, Susanna Antico and Steven Rosen shared their different paths to lighting design and inspirations along the way. From being an architect, to art student, to lighting designer; being inspired by the colours, water and reflections of her home on a Mediterranean island; from being fascinated by the interplay between colour and light in the theatre, to being inspired by his own team – each of them found their own lighting muse.
This year, we have seen the importance of diversity and inclusion discussions. Edward Bartholomew, Lisa Reed and Nelson Jenkins continued this discussion, sharing the impact of racism and colonialism in the lighting industry in their session, Multicultural Inclusion: Reflecting the Communities We Illuminate. Here, they showed how firms can thrive through diversity and inclusion by suggesting ways to expand the talent pool.
Other presentations across the two-day event came from Randy Burkett, Carrie Hawley, Andrew Mackinnon, Victor Palacio, Charles Stone, Colin Ball, Monica Lobo and Gerd Pfarré.
All presentations from the event are available to catch up on the IALD YouTube page here.
Following on from Enlighten Americas, the IALD will host Enlighten Europe Online on 18-19 November. Registration for this event is still open, and participants can register here.
Seoul Semiconductor and Future Electronics to hold webinar
(Europe) - Webinar, titled Get Out of the Darkness, to be held on 5th November at 10am CST.
Seoul Semiconductor and Future Electronics are hosting a webinar this week, entitled Get Out of the Darkness.
The session, held this Thursday (5th Nov) at 10am CST, will see Marc Juarez, Technical and Marketing Director of Seoul Semiconductor, and Francois Mirand, FLS Technical Director, discuss a number of the lighting industry's hot topics, from Human Centric Lighting to ecodesign regulations and their impact on lighting products.
Registration is still open for the hour-long session, which will include a Q&A.
More information about how to register can be found here.
www.seoulsemicon.com
www.futureelectronics.com
Signify appoints new CEO for UK and Ireland
(UK) – Stephen Rouatt promoted to CEO after almost five years with Signify.
Signify has announced the appointment of Stephen Rouatt as the new Chief Executive Officer for Signify UK and Ireland.
Rouatt has been with Signify for almost five years, bringing more than 20 years of industry and professional services experience across a range of sectors to the CEO role. With Signify, Rouatt was previously Group Head of the Strategy, Alliances & Market Insights team, where he was responsible for setting the business’ overall direction, defining Signify’s IoT and M&A strategies (including the acquisitions of Cooper Lighting Solutions, WiZ and Once/iLOX), leading the company’s Alliances functions and launching several transformation programs. Rouatt has also been closely involved in the development and acceleration of several of Signify’s sustainable growth businesses.
Based out of the UK, Rouatt replaces Joao Pola, who will become the head of Signify’s 3D Printing division.
Of the appointment, Rouatt said: “I feel immensely privileged to be appointed CEO of Signify UK&I. It has been a pleasure to see the transformation of the lighting industry as it moves to more connected, intelligent solutions, as well as be part of a business that is a true champion of sustainability with achievements such as our global carbon neutrality announcement this year. I am excited to build on the brilliant work of the UK&I team and wish Joao Pola the best of luck as he begins a new chapter for Signify.”
Prior to Signify, Rouatt was a Managing Principal at ING Bank, focused on strategy and innovation, and helping launch several fintech ventures. He spent 10 years split between McKinsey & Company in its Digital practice, and Accenture in its technology strategy group based in the UK, serving large corporate clients across North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Rouatt will take over the CEO duties in November, and will report to Frank van der Vloed, Market Group Leader for Europe.
Surface Design Show 2021 cancelled
(UK) – The show, expected to take place February 2021, has been postponed to 2022.
Surface Design Show organisers have announced that the 2021 edition of the show has been cancelled.
Originally due to take place on 9-11 February 2021, the next edition of the event will now be held on 8-10 February 2022.
Christopher Newton, Event Director, said: “Over the last months, we have worked hard with our industry colleagues to create an event that we felt could be held both successfully and safely. Our venue, the Business Design Centre, even held a prototype event to reassure the Government that we could work within their guidelines for holding trade shows.
“Unfortunately, the recent spike in Covid-19 cases in the UK has forced the Government to delay the re-opening of trade shows.
“Of course, we are hugely disappointed that next year’s show will not take place and we have been overwhelmed by the support of our exhibitors, however we look forward to bringing everyone back together for 2022, which promises to be better than ever.”
Newton added that the announcement will not affect the annual Surface Design Awards – more than 100 projects have been entered into the 2021 awards, with the first step of judging taking place at the end of October, and finalists being announced in early November. The Awards presentation will take place in February 2021.
Nichia: What's Next for Office Lighting?
NICHIA hosted a webinar on office lighting on 22 October 2020 in association with arc TV.
The panel of invited expert speakers included: Ourania Georgoutsakou, Secretary-General, LightingEurope; Mark Ridler, Lighting Director, BDP; Kornelius Reutter, Design & Innovation Project Manager, Regent Lighting; and Kei Haraguchi, Manager, Lighting Business Planning, NICHIA.
A live Q&A session at the end of the webinar was moderated by Matt Waring, editor of arc magazine.
Siteco: Helsingin Olympiastadion
The Helsingin Olympiastadion, as it is called in the local language, is the largest stadium in Finland. Built in 1938, it has housed all the country's major events of the past 80 years: from the Olympic Games in 1952 to the World and European Athletics Championships and the Women's World Cup in 2009, the stadium has also been used as a concert arena by world stars such as Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones and Tina Turner.
WAC Lighting given HEARTS Award
(USA) – WAC recognised for supplying 500,000 surgical masks to hospitals in USA earlier this year.
Representing citizenship within the lighting industry, WAC Lighting has been awarded the 2021 HEARTS Award for demonstrating outstanding leadership, empathy and service during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The announcement was made by the Dallas Market Center and ART, the creative home furnishings network.
In March of this year, WAC supplied 500,000 surgical masks to U.S. hospitals, primarily in the New York metropolitan area, where healthcare workers were being overrun by caseloads and were in desperate need of supplies.
“Our community wellbeing lies in the hands of the heroic healthcare providers among us,” explained WAC President and Co-CEO Shelley Wald, at the time. “Medical personnel and first responders need all the protection and support we can muster, but we cannot do it on our own. Please join our efforts to get supplies to the healthcare professionals on the front line. Our prayers are with those fighting this insidious illness and with all the people that love them.
“With regards to our customers, we recognise the particular hardships that retailers have been facing in the pandemic. To help make it easier for dealers to operate safely and avoid personal contact during Covid, we have been subsidising creative drop ship programs to eliminate unnecessary contact with their customers for handling deliveries that would normally be shipped to showrooms.”
The HEARTS Awards is a one-time special event to take place during the January 2021 Total Home & Gift Market in Dallas. The event is being held in partnership and solidarity with 13 leading industry organisations to honour 13 companies that have shown outstanding leadership, empathy and service during the Covid-19 pandemic by going above and beyond in service to their industry and/or community. The event will also include a fundraising auction supporting No Kid Hungry.
www.waclighting.com
www.dallasmarketcenter.com
