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Welcome to Light Connect Monthly!
A re-cap of the month, and more.
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The M1 Step Light Solid Eyelid is the latest addition to our M1 range. The new flange type masks two-thirds of the light, eliminating all upward light and projecting light downwards.
This light is ideal for step lighting applications where the fixture needs to be unobtrusive or concealed, designed to be recessed into landscape or architectural features within a canister.
LuxR’s Modux Series has been crafted with premium LED innovation. Modular by design, each component in these fixtures is replaceable, simplifying installation. Our light engines are precise and versatile, with a focus on maximizing energy efficiency. Created with the industry leading plug-in CreeTM LED board, you can be sure these lights are of superior quality.
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Dynamic and energetic, FELIX creates compelling spaces. The smooth rounded corners soften the edgy triangle shape. A hollow frame with a narrow one-inch profile is perfect for building spectacular configurations that delight, whether suspended or patterned on a surface. Add an extra layer of texture with acoustic panels that control sound reflection and make the room experience comfortable. | |
5cento is a versatile step light with slim design that can be easily installed onto a surface or any standard electrical junction box. With only 22mm of protrusion, 5cento has been developed without visible screws, concealed by a magnetic plate fixed on the luminaire body. Available in three versions, 5cento is particularly suitable for residential or hospitality applications. | |
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Bubbles is a tiny pendant that packs a punch with bubble lenses. It is made of machined aluminum and has 3 small lenses with beam options.
Available with the following beam options:
14° BEAM
25° BEAM
36° BEAM
55° BEAM
OVAL BEAM 45° + 15°
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Founded in 1953, locally owned and operated in Denver, Colorado, Nulite has been providing high quality lighting products to customers across the United States. Nulite offers a wide range of luminaires for industrial, retail, commercial, healthcare, and residential use. Custom capabilities coupled with short lead times make Nulite a favorite among specifiers, distributors and contractors.
Excellence is their goal. This goal is no different in dealing with your custom project! Regardless of the application Nulite can work with you to ensure the custom fixture you and your client requires is exactly to specification and meets the application exactly as expected.
If you have questions, they have the answers. When it comes to your project, they care as much as you, and they will be there for you from beginning to end to ensure the highest quality product is delivered to your customer.
Made in Denver, Colorado
All Nulite products are assembled in Denver, Colorado with domestic and foreign components. They strive to procure locally made components to reduce transportation and to build relationships with local vendors.
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Mobern has a simple philosophy: your success is their success. It’s why their customers call them a hidden gem in the lighting industry. Expect a relationship, with fair pricing and reliable service you can pass along to your clients.
The year is 1939, and fluorescent lighting is introduced for the first time at the New York World's Fair. Just five years later, Hyman Bernstein and Nathan Movitz combine their talents, and their last names, to create Mobern lighting–one of the first fluorescent lighting manufacturers in the world. 75+ years later, technology has changed–but Mobern’s responsive service, fair pricing, and expert staff has remained constant.
Today, Mobern’s 80,000 square foot state-of-the-art factory houses the stock and resources of an industry giant–but their friendly, knowledgeable team has the same family-owned feel that they were built on in 1944. With 75+ years of experience, you can bet their team has the answers to even the most complex lighting problems. Let’s work together to make your business shine!
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New Star Lighting has been a leading manufacturer of quality-driven luminaires for over 30 years. The company has built its business on superior customer service, flexibility and products engineered for challenging environments. Our market segments include confinement, high abuse, vandal-resistant architectural, cleanroom and healthcare. We meet the demands of the market with the ability to modify and customize most fixtures to the specification of the customer utilizing the most energy-efficient light sources available. Given the increasing need for energy efficiency, New Star currently offers several of its products with LED light sources and is moving forward with a plan to develop LED light options for the vast majority of its products.
New Star’s VR Architectural line effortlessly merges form and function. This series is architecturally attractive yet, designed to withstand the harshest of physical conditions. New Star’s High Abuse line is engineered for applications that may be at risk for vandalism. Our Confinement line is an optimal lighting solution for correctional facilities and high security areas. New Star‘s Cleanroom series is ideal for any laboratory setting and our Healthcare line is suited for surgical suites, patient and examination rooms. New Star’s fixtures are all fabricated and assembled in our production facilities in Chicago, IL.
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MP Lighting is a lighting manufacturing company based in Vancouver, BC. Headquartered in the beautiful False Creek neighborhood, MP Lighting is committed to producing sophisticated luminaires inspired by its surroundings, with the perfect merge of contemporary design and European-inspired aesthetics. With a background in engineering, the founder leads the company towards crafting and perfecting high-quality & high-performance products that require minimal maintenance once installed.
Since its establishment in 1994, MP Lighting has grown and developed its portfolio from Low Voltage Lights and Multi-Circuit Track Systems to over 200 LED fixtures that are produced in-house to ensure optimal quality control. MP Lighting products fit an array of needs and are widely used in multiple commercial, institutional, industrial, hospitality, and residential projects across the globe.
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Baldessari e Baldessari is an Architecture and design studio founded by Giulio, Paolo and Michela Baldessari active in the field of architecture, industrial and visual design, and interior architecture.
It operates with several internal working groups and with a dense network of external consultants. They take care of exhibitions in Italy and abroad. It develops research activities and participates in competitions and exhibitions.
Baldessari e Baldessari has public and private projects in progress in the residential, office and industrial sectors, restoration of historic and period buildings and interior architecture projects, as well as collaboration with companies in the design sector such as Riva 1920, Pallucco, Adele c, cc-tapis, De Castelli, Atipico, Twils, Starpool, Luce di Carrara, Lagoon. Modo Luce, Karman, Pieces of Venice, Bross, Baleri italia, Da a Italia, Rubinacci Napoli, Staygreen, Filippi 1971.
They have received prizes and honorable mentions in 1984 at the "An Italian chair for the USA" competition, in 1991 at the "Alcan Award for the use of aluminum in the built environment" and at the Trau international competition for the design of a workstation.
In 2007 1st place in the competition for new outdoor furniture experiments "Sun Rimini 2007.
Pida Award 2013 - hotel concept section and Pida Award 2014 "Pida Friends".
In 2015 they won the first prize “One more pack” – creative packaging design – and the prize “L'Italia che comunica con il packaging”.
In 2020 they received an honorable mention at the XXVI Compasso d'Oro for the exhibit design project of the "Epoca Fiorucci" exhibition set up in Cà Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna - Venice.
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He has been practising as an architect and designer in Venice since the 1980s, and the lagoon contiguity developed an ever-increasing affinity with the artistic production of glass and thus of decorative lighting He soon earned a master's degree in lighting design at the Milan Polytechnic, which propelled him into the role of interpreter of contemporary lighting design, in glass, characterising the Creative Direction for LEUCOS 1996/2015 and De Majo Murano since 1994. In 2016 he began his collaboration with ITALAMP where he serves as Art Director. For the same companies he designs lamp collections that earn him significant international awards such as Good Design Award - Chicago, Best Booth Design - Las Vegas, Wallpaper Design - UK and IDA Award - Los Angeles. Furniture, lighting and objects form the professional background that he transfers to teaching Product and Lighting at the Raffles Institute of Fashion and Design in Milan. | |
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After graduating with honour in 2000 at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Industrial design in Ljubljana, the Slovenian product and interior designer Nika Zupanc became a globally recognised name with the launch of her first object in 2007. In 2008, she established her own eponymous studio in her hometown of Ljubljana and since works as an independent designer constantly involved in projects that grow out of distinctive interpretations of modern culture, contemporary design and available technological options.
Her products are part of the range of distinguished design companies and she works with prestigious clients on specially assigned commitments. Her praised limited edition collections and installations are exhibited around the world, sometimes as part of high-end collaborations like those with Rossana Orlandi Gallery in Milano. Along the way, Zupanc continuously produces objects under her own brand Nika Zupanc and is involved in various projects and collaborations. Elsewhere, she has continued to build her portfolio to rising acclaim also with curated solo-and-group exhibitions around the word.
In the last few years, Zupanc has become one of the most closely-watched designers at Milan Design Week: not just for her stand-alone products but also for her installations. In 2020 she designed an extensive collection of furniture for Natuzzi Italia and she received the 2020 Archiproducts Design Awards in the Furniture category for the Wave sofa, a central piece to the collection.
Her visual language comes from deep within and is about “communicating the things that cannot be told.”
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Born in Copenhagen in 1963, Jakob Wagner received a B.Sc. in Design Engineering at DIA-M in Denmark (1987) and completed his second degree in Product Design at Art Center, Switzerland (1992).
In 1993 following internships/studies in the United States, Italy and France, he founded Jakob Wagner Studio in Copenhagen. The studio began by focusing on high-tech products for medical, professional and sports applications and later on home products. This led to product lines for Alessi, Bang & Olufsen, Menu, Muuto and Stelton and furniture projects for Cappellini, B&B Italia, Moroso and Hay among others.
Jakob’s work has been exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards (6 IF awards, 3 Red Dots, Bundespreis, Designer of the Year) as well as becoming a part of the permanent exhibition at MOMA, New York.
Wagner’s simple yet sophisticated work expresses the essence of a product in a minimalist, poetic and playful manner. His design process is detailed and considers all angles of the user experience, which results in timeless, well balanced design.
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The innovative SKY lighting installation for Das Lebendige Haus in Leipzig. Traxon DOT LED solutions and e:cue lighting control from OSRAM support the impressive display in which sound recordings from the surroundings become perceptible as a lighting and sound installation after being processed and alienated. | | | |
LIGHTING THE TOWER’S FLOWERS | |
The historic moat surrounding the Tower of London was adorned with millions of colourful wildflowers over the summer of 2022, to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The now even more poignant event - called Superbloom – ran throughout the days and some evenings.
On those evenings, the colours of the flowers were richly enhanced and accentuated using tailored lighting. WE-EF collaborated with Japan and Singapore-based lighting designers Nipek, and Beam Lighting Design located in the UK, to provide a truly global solution.
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The Importance of Focused Lighting in Retail Spaces | |
Don't underestimate the importance of focused lighting in a retail space. When focused correctly, light fixtures enhance any retail store.
Many retail stores invest in their lighting, but you might not know the importance of focused lighting in those consumer areas.
Lighting plays a crucial role in creating an inviting and pleasant environment for customers in commercial retail spaces. When light fixtures are placed properly and aimed and focused correctly, they can significantly enhance the overall appearance of the store and create an attractive ambiance that draws customers in.
In this blog, we will show you clear demonstrations of the importance of focused lighting in your retail space. Now, let’s explore the advantages of taking aim and focus into account when installing lighting.
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at Kalamazoo College where lighting dives into innovation
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Natatorium Lighting Design: A Dance of Light and Water
The new 35,000-square-foot facility serves the college swim teams and the local community, that feature NCAA-compliant facilities, wet offices, eight competition lanes and a separate diving and spectator areas.
Eighty-one powerful Bolt floodlights are installed in a stem mount to offer uniform uplight illumination mounted along the perimeter. Photometric calculations show 79 average fc on the pool deck, ensuring excellent visibility during competitions and contributing to an outstanding aquatic experience.
Glare-free Illumination with High-Lumen Luminaires
The powerful yet compact form factor of the Bolt series plays a significant role in the selection as the natatorium’s primary luminaire; offering 68,000 delivered lumens, and being DLC Premium listed. Mounted in an indirect fashion, users experience fantastic visual comfort without sacrificing light levels.
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Mesa Air Group enlisted the design minds at AEI to improve work conditions for their mechanics at its tech hangars at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, AZ. Concerned more for the well being of its passengers and a productive work environment for its employees, Mesa Air chose AEI’s T5IE-654 in a 1 to 1 replacement of existing 400W HPS fixtures. The result was three times the original lumen levels and an energy savings of 15% in the first month. Prior to deciding, Mesa Air had looked at AEI’s T5IE-454, an equivalent of 400W HPS, which, had they been installed, would have also increased light levels and saved over 50% in energy costs. | |
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How To Brighten Up Small Parking Lots With Solar Lights | Having a well-lit parking lot is essential to keep your property safe and accessible, but if you have a small parking lot it can be difficult to find the right lighting solution. Fortunately, solar lights are an ideal option for small parking lots, offering a simple and budget-friendly way to shed light on the area. | | | |
What is the DynaStrip?
The highest output strip system on the market, engineered in a heat sink channel for easy application.
The HiLumz DynaStrips are made for power and long life. Delivering up to 2500 lumens per foot (10k lumens in a 4 ft strip), DynaStrips are routinely used for high bay retrofits, sign lighters, paint booths, and a variety of the applications where light output is the name of the game.
DynaStrips are pressed into a custom heat sink and available in an IP65 water resistant channel.
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