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Author Archives: craigbic
Second Phase of HYVE/Osram “LED-Emotionalize your light” Design Contest Starts
I just received a follow up email from HYVE regarding the “LED-Emotionalize your light” design contest. Here it is for any of my readers that have participated: The second phase of the LED-Emotionalize your light! Idea Contest has started! At … Continue reading
Posted in General, Innovative Lighting Design, Just for fun
Tagged design contest, designing with light, emotionalize your light, hyve, led competition, led contest, led emotion, lighting design competition, lighting design contest, lighting design tools, lighting designers, lighting engineering, office lighting design, osram, osram contest
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Dialux Videos
Using the website Truveo, I have found several Dialux-related videos from across the web. I cannot watch many types of online videos from work so I cant tell you what they entail or what their quality is but it’s worth … Continue reading
Posted in DIALux
Tagged architectural lighting design tools, daylight planner, daylight planning, dial, DIALux, dialux tutorials, dialux videos, free lighting design software, free lighting software, free software, light modeling, lighting design software, lighting software, lighting visualization software
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HYVE Innovation Community in collaboration with OSRAM, are hosting an online idea and design competition
First off, let me say that I am NOT posting this late. I did not get this until 25MAY09 but the contest runs until the end of July so you still have time. I am posting the email sent to … Continue reading
Posted in General, Innovative Lighting Design, Just for fun
Tagged competition, designing with light, hyve, led competition, led emotion, led emotionalize, lighting contest, lighting design, lighting design competition, lighting design contest, lighting design software, lighting designers, lighting engineering, Office Lighting, office lighting design, osram
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Smart LED Parking Lot Lights
Ruud Lighting/BetaLED along with the University of California at Davis have developed “smart” LED parking lot lights that reduce the energy consumption by 80% over the more traditional metal-halide lamps they replaced. The 50 LED light fixtures implement a two-level … Continue reading
Submit your craziest, goofiest, or kookiest light fixture design pics
Here’s an idea. I am really interested to see what any of the light fixture designers of the world have come up with for really far out light fixtures, maybe while they were in design school or something. Don’t worry, … Continue reading
Announcing the Sketchup Graphics Blog!
I would like to inform all my readers that I have a new blog, the Sketchup Graphics Blog, that is about all things Sketchup. I have taken the Sketchup related posts from here and copied them over to the new … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged 3d design, 3d illustration, google, graphic design, sketchup, technical illustration
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DIALux now has an official support board
Mr. Willi Bremecker, the Team Leader for Sales at DIAL – makers of DIALux – has informed me that there is now an official DIALux forum on their website! Hooorayy!!!! 8) While I don’t want to chase traffic away from … Continue reading
Posted in DIALux, Tools of the Trade
Tagged architectural design, architectural led lighting, architectural lighting, architectural lighting design, Architectural Lighting Industry, artistic lighting, designing with light, dial, DIALux, dialux board, dialux forum, dialux support, free lighting software, free software, led architectural lighting, lighting artist, lighting calculation, lighting design, lighting design software, lighting designers, lighting engineering, lighting software, Office Lighting, office lighting design, Solid-State Architectural Lighting, solid-state lighting design, solid-state office lighting
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Architectural Lighting Blog wins award…sort of…
I got tired of not having awards so I did what I think ALL blog writers SHOULD do….give themselves an award. So I came up with the Self-Awarded Blog Award for 2008 and gave it to the Architectural Lighting Blog. … Continue reading
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Tagged architectural design, architectural led lighting, architectural lighting, architectural lighting design, Architectural Lighting Industry, artistic lighting, award winning blog, blog award, blog wards, building daylight, building technologies, building technology, commercial lighting design, commercial lighting tools, daylight consultant, daylight consulting, daylight planner, daylight planning, department of energy, designing with light, DIALux, doe, doe tools, doe utilities, energy analysis, energy analysis tools, energy efficient, energy policy tax, energy savings, energy utilities, free, free design software, free lighting design software, free lighting software, free lighting tools, free lighting utilities, free program, free software, free web tool, led architectural lighting, lighting artist, lighting design, lighting design software, lighting designers, lighting engineering, lighting plugin, lighting software, natural building light, Office Lighting, plugins, retail lighting, retail lighting design, retial store lighting, Solid-State Architectural Lighting, solid-state lighting design
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FREE Commercial Building Lighting Web Tool
The Department of Energy (DOE) has developed an interactive web tool called Commercial Lighting Solutions (CLS) intended to provide “how to” advice about ways to improve interior lighting efficiency and reduce energy consumption for a potential savings of 30% or … Continue reading
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Tagged building technologies, building technology, commercial lighting design, commercial lighting tools, department of energy, doe, doe tools, doe utilities, energy analysis, energy analysis tools, energy efficient, energy policy tax, energy savings, energy utilities, free, free design software, free lighting tools, free lighting utilities, free program, free software, free web tool, lighting design software, retail lighting, retail lighting design, retial store lighting
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Another New DIALux Plugin
Hess has introduced a large DIALux plugin with over 2200 luminaires and variations! Kewl 8) They have mimicked their website’s navigation in the plugin’s user interface which should make for easy browsing. Click here to shoot off to their website … Continue reading
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Tagged architectural design, architectural led lighting, architectural lighting, architectural lighting design, Architectural Lighting Industry, artistic lighting, building daylight, daylight consultant, daylight consulting, daylight planner, daylight planning, designing with light, DIALux, dialux blog, dialuxblog.com, free lighting design software, free lighting software, free software, led architectural lighting, lighting artist, lighting design, lighting designers, lighting engineering, lighting plugin, lighting software, natural building light, Office Lighting, plugins, Solid-State Architectural Lighting, solid-state lighting design
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