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Welcome to Light Connect Monthly!
A re-cap of the month, and more.
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Whether you need to enhance the ambience of a patio, highlight architectural features, or illuminate outdoor spaces, Laser Blade InOut is the ideal solution.
Designed specifically for outdoor applications, Laser Blade InOut combines minimalist aesthetics with exceptional performance, setting a new standard in exterior lighting.
Laser Blade InOut offers a range of beam angles to suit your specific requirements. Whether you prefer a focused spot, a wider flood (48°), or something in between (30°), we have you covered. You can expect the same level of outstanding performance and lighting quality that you have come to love from the Laser Blade series.
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ODLM
Designed by Isolite
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The ODLM has a very low profile extruded aluminum housing of a 2" diameter and a gasketed mounting bracket that blend seamlessly with structural metal frames.
It has a remote power supply for 10W and 20W EM and AC model single fixtures. With its certified IP66 housing and waterproof compression seal for universal wall or top mount, it withstands multi direction water spray and fine dust ingress.
Isolite also came out with an aesthetically matching product (ODLE) for situations where mullion mount is not required.
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LIA
Designed by Focal Point
| Lia is a sophisticated acoustic pendant with an air of mystery. PET felt fins surround a powerful light engine, resulting in a light and airy volume. Playful and intriguing light and shadow effects add to the mesmerizing visual aspect of the pendant, which makes a statement on its own or clustered to further elevate high, open ceiling spaces. Discover this high-performance, decorative acoustic pendant. | |
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The LumiPano™ technology uses magnetic profile clips that make it easy to install and remove the illuminated panel. This allows you to access the lighting engine and the plenum above with minimal effort. Once you're done, simply click the framing back into place, and the panel will be held securely.
With high-quality digital printing as an option, the perforated metal creates authentic illuminated artwork utilized as functional or task lighting. Moreover, each panel is custom-made to include bespoke and organic shapes, adding to your luminous design.
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On a mission to accelerate the lighting industry's transition to sustainable design, lightly challenges themselves to design the lowest embodied carbon, non-toxic lighting solutions. Their products contain no metal, plastic, or glass in their housings. Instead they are natural wood, wool and hemp, red-list free, and accompanied by 3rd party verified sustainability documentation.
For several decades, the discussion about sustainability in lighting has been focused on energy efficiency. As other products such as flooring and furniture have been scrutinized for their material sustainability, lighting has been treated as an exception. However, they believe lighting should be scrutinized in the same way, and the topic of sustainability should include an analysis of embodied carbon and toxic materials.
Today, architectural light fixtures are more energy efficient and longer lasting than ever. However, they are made from primarily metals and plastics. Raw aluminum used for fixture housings may be recyclable, but requires an oven burning at over 1000 degrees to melt and shape, consuming a ton of energy. Plastic used for optics and diffusers is made in oil refineries, releasing toxic chemicals into the environment that will eventually end up in a landfill or polluting our oceans. Although as an industry we are doing a great job conserving electricity during the operational lifetime of our products, there is a need for improvements in the sourcing, manufacturing, and end-of-life considerations of our creations.
It is the responsibility of the manufacturing community to design sustainable alternatives to commonly used products. However, the design community holds the power to pressure manufacturers into doing so by specifying sustainable products whenever possible, and demanding 3rd party verified sustainability information about those products.
When you specify Lightly instead of traditional metal and plastic products, you are accelerating the sustainability movement.
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This unique system consists of a ring of power LEDs which are installed in a circle shaped unit that is placed around the flag pole. Because of the unit’s shape and the way it is placed, it doesn’t matter from which angle the wind blows: the flag always is in full view. No more shadows, flags are always lit and no need for expensive land spots. Twelve powerful LEDs distribute the light brightly and uniformly and illuminate the object in a very special way.
PoleLed’s lighting system can be applied to both existing and new flag poles, conical and cylindrical, up to a height of 12 meters. The unit is made of aluminum and has the same color as the flag pole. Once the unit is installed, theft is practically impossible.
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Point Lighting Corporation has been a leader and innovator in heliport and obstruction lighting since 1993. They are a fully American-made manufacturer, supplying domestic and global partners with specification-grade products, custom-built solutions, and end-to-end technical expertise.
They offer custom-designed, site-specific lighting and control solutions alongside project and implementation consultation. Their solutions include product recommendations, layout insights, bills of material and full customization.
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Peachtree Lighting founded in 1989 and located in Covington, Georgia, designs and manufactures high-quality, high-performance specification-grade lighting products for the commercial, industrial and institutional market. The company offers a broad portfolio of recessed downlights, cylinders, industrials, medical and decorative wall and ceiling luminaires.
Our focus is to develop products using the latest LED technology. From initial concepts through finished products, Peachtree’s integrated design and manufacturing capabilities ensure the highest possible quality in the shortest possible lead times on standard products. All products are made to order, built in the USA and ship in time to meet the most demanding of project schedules.
Combining operational capabilities with a spirit of innovation and service, the
company has a reputation for delivering products that effectively address unique market or application requirements.
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With a reductive approach to his craft, Brad Ascalon believes in design that is uncomplicated, rational and manages to find the perfect balance of form, function and concept. This philosophy coupled with his strategy-driven approach to design has made Ascalon widely regarded as one of the leading American designers of his generation.
Founded in 2006, Ascalon’s studio has collaborated with such global brands as Carl Hansen & Son, Haworth, Kimball International, Ligne Roset, Bernhardt Design, Restoration Hardware, Design Within Reach, Nude Glass, Skandiform, L’Oreal and many others.
Immersed in the world of art and design from an early age, Ascalon is a third-generation designer who attributes his passion for creating to the two generations before him who instilled in him the values of craftsmanship, materiality and rigor.
In addition to his design practice, Ascalon teaches graduate level design courses at the renowned University of Pennsylvania as part of the school’s IPD (Integrated Product Design) program, a curriculum that bridges the university’s schools of Architecture, Design and Wharton School of Business.
Ascalon and his wife live and work in Manhattan, as well as the bucolic North Fork of Long Island, NY.
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Marco Spatti is a product designer living and working in Milan. His approach always underlines objects functionality and usability. Each of his projects is the result of a careful investigation on past, present and future of design. Innovation is his primary goal and he achieves it through the reinterpretation of classic styles and an unprecedented use of materials and production technologies.
Levante, a chandelier of great emotional impact, based on the creative intuition of the designer, together with the research on materials, technology and design conducted by di Luceplan. A new protagonist for living areas in the home, but also for contract applications. The size is impressive, yet the overall image is ethereal, like an organism floating in space.
Levante (the name suggests lightness and wind, but also a clear reference to oriental aesthetics) stems from the intersection of three large fans, made in an unprecedented material for the design sector, borrowed from the world of food, with an appearance similar to rice paper, to spread light in a uniform way over surfaces.
The thickness of the veils is minimal, and they are attached with magnets to the central core that contains the light source, hidden as if it were an organic, beating heart.
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Lee Broom has won over 30 awards to date including the prestigious British Designer of the Year Award and The Queen’s Award for Enterprise presented by Her Majesty The Queen at Buckingham Palace. Presenting his collections each year in Milan, New York and London Design Weeks, he has gained a reputation for creating conceptual dynamic installations which are surreal, experiential and always unexpected. Making design a successful global business Lee Broom’s products are retailed in over 250 stores in 50 countries around the world alongside his own flagship showrooms in London and New York.
Lee Broom has been described by The Financial Times as “Among the most respected British Talents”.
Having started out in theatre school, a beginning which has greatly influenced the sense of drama and narrative that his collections create, his career took a change of direction after he won a fashion design competition at the age of 17. This led him to meet and then go onto work for the legendary designer Vivienne Westwood, after which he studied for a degree in fashion design at Central St Martins. Fashion is still a great source of inspiration and The Guardian commented, “Lee Broom is to furniture what Marc Jacobs or Tom Ford are to fashion.”
Now Lee Broom is one of the UK’s leading product designers and a premium global design brand. With his highly original brand of luxury furniture and lighting designs, his work is recognized and retailed across the globe. Since founding the company in 2007, he has created over 100 furniture, accessory and lighting pieces, all of which are designed, manufactured and retailed under the Lee Broom brand. He has also collaborated with many other leading global brands including Christian Louboutin, Mulberry, Bergdorf Goodman and Wedgwood. Lee Broom’s designs can be seen in hotels, restaurants and homes across the world as well as on magazine covers and in newspapers internationally. His designs are both unique yet familiar as he takes classic styles and reinterprets them in new and contemporary ways with an unexpected edge. Taking inspiration from his background in fashion design, he strives to embrace and explore new themes while keeping an overarching house style. Using the highest quality materials, combined with the latest technology, Lee Broom constantly evolves and innovates, resulting in his signature mix of classicism and modernity.
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In 2008, Dominique Perrault described himself in eleven words : School. Rupture. Defiance. Void. Wall. Earth. Land art. Site. Place. Happiness. And finally, Mesh, a supple material that has structure but whose very essence is to be present and yet be invisible. It is a material that is both rigorous and poetic, virtual yet present and which the architect has used in the past as a way of delineating a geographic area, either as a protection or a way of welcoming, as well as a way of channelling natural or artificial light. This is the same mesh that Dominique Perrault and Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost have adapted, manipulated, contorted and transplanted into the inner workings of their lamps to create the thousands of exceptional and powerful lighting solutions that light up the French National Library, day and night.
Not one who is prone to brandishing himself in the media, his conceptual hedonism comes allied with an infectious enthusiasm and a healthy dose of fun. Dominique Perrault’s signature is barely seen on products. It is something of an event therefore when he uses it, along with that of Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost, on the IN THE TUBE and IN THE SUN collections. It is, in its way, a way of domesticating and refining the raw power of the industrial, of filtering the source into something considered and thought-out, resulting in an object that is comfortable, soft and sophisticated.
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The Role of LED Lighting and Controls in the Circular Economy | |
The new circular economy is based on reusing and recycling resources to minimize waste and reduce the demand for the collection of new resources.
At its core, the circular economy is based on reusing and recycling resources to minimize waste and reduce the demand for the collection of new resources. The traditional linear economy is based on an inherently unsustainable take-make-dispose model, which has dominated the economy for roughly the last 150 years.
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Bouncing off the walls: how interiors can benefit from indirect lighting | |
We take a look at five different interior typologies to illustrate the effectiveness of clever lighting design in all kinds of spaces.
The importance of lighting in interior design cannot be overstated: done right, it not only accentuates a space's architectural features, but also makes inhabitants feel at ease. As Carmelo Zappulla of Lighting Studio External Reference explains in an interview with Architonic, light is a crucial tool to add an emotional element and 'animate a space.'
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Depending on the project location, controls and fixtures in the space, individual project needs, and the type of backup power used, emergency lighting requirements vary, and design can be complex. We help simplify the process by exploring key considerations such as whether the project uses a generator or an inverter, the benefits of standalone vs. a centralized emergency lighting control that’s part of an integrated lighting solution, and how to determine the appropriate sequence of operations for each space. You will learn how to approach emergency lighting design to deliver the best value, longevity, and performance for each project. | |
Spatial design explores the relationship between architecture, design and people. It focuses on the flow of people between multiple areas within interior and exterior environments. Drawing invisible perimeters and experimenting with contained areas within an open layout serves to create depth, balance and hierarchy. | |
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15-Minute Public Education Webinar
SHEDDING LIGHT ON INVERTER DERATING
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Understand technical factors such as “Power Factor” that can impact inverter capacity
2. Learn how inverter runtimes improve as inverters are underloaded
3. Review the limitations on battery storage temperatures and the effect on inverter performance.
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For application spaces in need of a system that is simple, easy to install and code complaint, Daintree EZ Connect is our mobile, app-based wireless controls system. Daintree EZ Connect provides zonal control and commissioning of lighting systems. The Daintree EZ Connect mobile app and integrated sensors allow customers to zone lighting fixtures, saving installation time and expertise required to commission room-based lighting systems. | |
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JLC-Tech Pin-Up:
DC Micro Grids
| Did you know an estimated 20% of energy can be lost when AC power is converted to DC power? This proves to be incredibly inefficient as most of our devices now run on DC current, LED lighting include | | | |
The dynamic lighting control system that uses the magic of light to elevate everyday moments. Athena is a flexible, simple, all-in-one solution that combines the world's most advanced light source with intelligent shades and intuitive apps to deliver a holistic light experience. | | | | |
