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2025 Lighting Jobs Outlook
Soft skills are essential in an ever-evolving market Last year felt like a very eventful trip around the Sun (in ways both positive and negative), but 2025 seems like a…
Accentuate the Positive
Enhancing the guest experience in hospitality spaces Hospitality spaces have many areas that are diverse, with unique comfort, safety, performance and ambiance needs for their employees and guests. As a…
The LIA Announces Courses for Sales Specialists
The Lighting Industry Association (LIA), dedicated to lighting in Europe, has announced new courses to launch in January 2025: Identify And Understand Your Customers and Planning, Presenting, and Closing, as…
NLB’s Tesla Awards Accepting Submissions
The National Lighting Bureau’s (NLB’s) call for entries for the 6th-annual Tesla Awards, recognizing excellence in lighting projects that illustrate the value of lighting via promotion of health and wellness,…
Commercial Lighting Market to Reach $56 Billion by 2030
Research and Markets has published a new analysis, Commercial Lighting Market by Offering, Installation Type, Communication Technology, End-use Application, End-user Global Forecast 2025-2030. The 187-page document covers key factors driving…
Hurry Back!
Walt Disney Imagineering continues to reanimate haunted attractions As each October approaches, there’s a proliferation of haunted attractions designed to scare the bejesus out of willing visitors. “Get out!” is…
Rise of the Machines
Defining goals and boundaries for the use of AI Ten years ago, the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) was something that you might see in a dystopian sci-fi movie or…
A Howling Good Time
“The Legend of Luna” extends Great Wolf Resorts’ storytelling canvas Picture a cozy living room inside a log cabin on a chilly night. The fireplace is softly glowing, a dark-wood…
Last Look: Everything the Light Touches
For a third time, light lovers on social media answered LD+A’s call for their best images of natural light phenomena. As always, the submissions the editors received did not…
Careers: Remote Work and Relocation
Articulate your incentives and benefits Things have obviously changed significantly in employment trends since 2020, so I thought I would take a “recruiter’s perspective” look at the numbers based on…
Research: Empowering Electricians
Securing the Future of Smart Buildings with Cybersecurity Skills As buildings become increasingly integrated with advanced control technologies, cybersecurity concerns have risen significantly. This is particularly true for networked lighting…
Designed for Design
Illumination allows for versatility in a California gallery The 2023 IES Illumination Award of Merit-recipient Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco, CA, holds inside its doors a range of design-based exhibits…
Diversity: Forward Momentum
A peek at future IES DEIR Committee initiatives Since the inception of the IES Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Respect (DEIR) Committee in 2021, we have set annual agendas and goals…
January 8-11 Lightovation Show in Dallas Inspires With 1 Million Square Feet of Lighting Exhibits
Twice a year, each January and June, Dallas Market Center hosts the largest residential lighting show in the Western Hemisphere. Lightovation offers 1 million square feet of permanent exhibits encompassing…
First Beacon Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the first-annual Beacon Awards, presented by DLFNY, honoring outstanding achievements in lighting design in 2024, were announced at a ceremony in October at Sony Hall in New…