The Future of Lighting

As a 3D designer work­ing in the archi­tec­tural field, I often have to take light­ing into con­sid­er­a­tion when cre­at­ing a project. Over the years, I’ve worked with archi­tects, inte­rior design­ers, stage light­ing, and light­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers in pro­duc­ing images for them — if image light­ing is off, clients don’t hes­i­tate to tell me about it. Quite hon­estly, light­ing was some­thing I never really paid much atten­tion to until I got into this field and found out that I had to have some under­stand­ing of the process — every­thing from tem­per­a­ture to dif­fer­ent types of sys­tems. To add to this, there’s the finan­cial and envi­ron­men­tal com­po­nent that needs to be taken into con­sid­er­a­tion for the aver­age user.

Here’s a few inter­est­ing pieces on the future of light­ing (regard­ing LED, Com­pact Flu­o­res­cent, and Incan­des­cent tech­nolo­gies) that I’ve come across recently that’s worth a lis­ten and a read:

http://www.wbur.org/media-player/?url=http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/09/15/light-bulbs&title=The+Light+Bulb+2.0&pubdate=2011–09-15&segment=1&source=onpoint (46 minute lis­ten­ing pro­gram with Tom Ashbrook.)

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/09/15/light-bulbs (Tom Ashbrook’s Inter­view on NPR.)

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/08/ff_lightbulbs