Whether it’s a Picasso or a family portrait, artwork is important to a Client and it’s important to light it properly. Recessed lights, track lights, framing projectors, and picture lights can all be appropriate but how do you choose? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each one? How do you space them correctly?
This hands-on session will introduce participants to the essential skill of reading and applying photometric data in a way that strengthens design outcomes. Attendees will learn how to make sense of fixture reports, understand basic terms like beam angle, lumen output, and distribution, and connect those numbers to real-world design choices. The session emphasizes how data can guide creative intent, helping emerging practitioners gain confidence in selecting fixtures that deliver the desired look, feel, and function. Focus will be on relatively challenging spaces to predict.
We always think about new construction, but what about a renovation? What are the challenges of trying to make a client’s lighting better when you can’t start from scratch? Can changing lamps (bulbs), adding lenses, aiming and similar techniques be enough? How do you analyze what is needed (not as easy as just saying “more light”)? How do you explain and defend your design suggestions? And how do you look ahead to what the challenges to implementing those design improvements would be?
Whether it’s a Picasso or a family portrait, artwork is important to a Client and it’s important to light it properly. Recessed lights, track lights, framing projectors, and picture lights can all be appropriate but how do you choose? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each one? How do you space them correctly?
Knowing how to correctly place fixtures (especially recessed lights) is probably the MOST important thing for you to learn. While there can be different subjective thoughts on how room should be lit, the correct spacing and correct distances off walls are much more objective measurements. You have one opportunity to get it right…are you convinced that your thoughts are correct?
Just as with speakers, TVs and shades, there are differences in quality and different features with each manufacturer. The same is true with recessed lights, but how do you know what to look for? How do you defend your fixture choice when someone else on the “team” questions you or introduces an alternate fixture? If you don’t know the minute differences, then everything is subjective and harder to defend.
Just as with speakers, TVs and shades, there are differences in quality and different features with each manufacturer. The same is true with low voltage linear LED fixtures, but how do you know what to look for? How do you defend your fixture choice when someone else on the “team” questions you or introduces an alternate fixture? If you don’t know the minute differences, then everything is subjective and harder to defend.
Light Can Help You, the industry-leading lighting design team in the custom integration world, closely guards its design secrets- until now. Take a rare peek inside the lighting design process guided by founding designer David Warfel in this step-by-step walk-through of lighting plans. Find out why Light Can Help you specifies very few fixed recessed downlights, where they put linear, and more in this seminar-style session. Sample plans will be provided; participants should bring pencils and erasers for following along.
Presented by: Peter Romaniello, IALD, Owner, Conceptual Lighting
Offered Twice Tuesday January 21st 8am-10am and repeats Wednesday January 22nd 3pm-5pm – 105 Minute Session – $50 (Fee Increases to $75 December 1st and $100 January 1st)
Level: Intermediate to Proficient For: Architect, Design, Interior Designer, Ownership, Sales
Just as with speakers, TVs and shades, there are differences in quality and different features with each manufacturer. The same is true with low voltage linear LED fixtures, but how do you know what to look for? How do you defend your fixture choice when someone else on the “team” questions you or introduces an alternate fixture? If you don’t know the minute differences, then everything is subjective and harder to defend.