Giving the Simple Gift of Light #5 “Yes, but…” Back when I was a teenager, my dad regularly teased me by saying, before I could, “yes, but….” Apparently, I had developed quite the habit of contradicting him, so he went on the offensive. Of course, as a fifteen-year-old, I did have all the answers to […]
Category: Design Theory
Relax Easily
The Simple Gift of Light #4 You can skip reading this post if the stress of the workday falls off your shoulders and you find relaxation easily when you return home. This post is for the rest of us. Perhaps you work at home or away and juggle responsibilities or push your body physically all […]
Retirement Announcement: CRI
A special thanks to Tony Esposito for inspiring this post with his excellent presentation at the IES Maritime conference on Prince Edward Island recently. Everyone loves talking about lighting acronyms, right? Ah, what a joy to discuss CRI, the Color Rendering Index, the gold standard of lighting quality for decades. Five of them, in fact, […]
PICK THE PRODUCTS: Kitchens
Giving the Simple Gift of Light #4 When I was much younger, I looked at box full of chocolates with a mix of excitement and trepidation. I knew, somewhere in the box, would be a delicious chocolate with a creamy caramel center, but I was deathly afraid that I would bite through a cherry, or […]
MOVE…OR PERFORM?
The Simple Gift of Light #4 Light can help you move with energy…and perform brilliantly all day long, no matter what you do. Sometimes I feel a bit like a huckster selling a miracle elixir when I talk about the benefits light can bring to our lives. I picture myself standing in a dusty wooden […]
More Places to Light: Kitchens
Giving the Simple Gift of Light #3 As I get older, my running routine has become a jogging routine or, sometimes, what I call my slogging routine. A few times a week I get up, pull on running clothes, and stumble out the door. As I start slogging towards the lake, my body sometimes says: […]
Wake Gently
The Simple Gift of Light #3 Would you like to wake gently each morning, refreshed and ready for the new day? Light can help you. A few years ago I caught some kind of nasty cough, the kind that gets worse when lying horizontal (so much for sleep), and it just wouldn’t go away. For […]
KITCHENS: Pick the PLACES
Ready to roll up your proverbial (or literal, I suppose) shirtsleeves? This series is all about helping aspiring residential lighting designers, architects, interior designers, and DIY homeowners get better light in their homes. If you want to know why this is important and dig into the theory behind this series, check out the Simple Gift of […]
GIVING The Simple Gift of Light
Introducing a second new series for 2025 focused on practical advice for designers. Today I start a second new series for the year that I hope will make a strong compliment to the first. Last week I started the Simple Gift of Light series as a place to explore several key benefits of light in […]
The Simple Gift of Light
Introduction to a new series for 2025…and beyond? Light, to me, is the first divine gift of the universe. In the middle of a career centered on light, I have more questions than answers, despite knowing more than ever before. Why, for example, do so many people suffer from light that hurts as much as […]