Cooper Lighting Solutions: Enhancing Visual Comfort with Regressed Lighting
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Enhancing Visual Comfort with Regressed Lighting

Regressed lighting offers significant advantages in reducing glare and enhancing visual comfort. However, regressed lighting also presents some installation considerations, especially when dealing with obstructions above the ceiling. To define regressed lighting, one should look at how it differs from surface and recessed lighting. Surface downlights are fixtures that attach directly to the ceiling’s surface. As a result, the entire fixture is visible and protrudes outward. In contrast, recessed downlighting is a broad term covering any fixture that is installed into the ceiling and sits flush with or is integrated into the surface.

LEDVANCE What Are LED Backlight Panel Lights
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What Are LED Backlight Panel Lights?

LED backlight panel lights are revolutionizing interior lighting, offering energy-efficient, long-lasting alternatives to traditional fluorescent lighting. Widely used in office buildings, schools, and other commercial spaces, these panels provide uniform, bright illumination with improved performance. This article will explore the advantages, design features, and common applications of LED backlight panels, helping you understand why they are a great choice for modern lighting solutions. An LED backlight panel features LEDs positioned behind the panel’s frame, emitting light through a lens that spreads the light evenly across a wide area. This design eliminates the need for additional components like guide panels or diffusers, as the lens itself helps reduce glare and ensure uniform brightness. These panels are typically installed in ceilings with adequate depth, offering excellent coverage for large indoor spaces. The simplicity and efficiency of LED backlight panels make them ideal for general lighting in areas such as hallways, offices, and classrooms.

Zaneen: Current Design Trends
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Current 2025 Design Trends

Refresh yours or your client’s space with a collection of inspiring top design trends, and the luminaires to suit them! From the use of minimalist palettes to highlighting natural materials, keep reading to discover the last few current style trends. Reduce, reuse, recycle. The ECO CHIC design trend is all about sustainability and minimizing unnecessary consumerism. Selecting pieces that offer long-term durability and quality, while still creating an inviting and comfortable atmosphere. Savina by Ole! Lighting has a classic shape and texture that remains in style throughout a changing space and time. Savina offers a simple design of handmade braided cord on a conical metal structure, available in a wide selection of different color finish options. This suspended light fixture is perfect for high ceiling areas where the different sizes of this collection can be combined, creating an elegant effect and focusing the light.

LEDVANCE UFO Lights - What You Need to Know for Efficient Illumination
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LEDVANCE: UFO Lights – What You Need to Know for Efficient Illumination

UFO lights are LED fixtures shaped like UFOs, offering efficient lighting for large spaces. Due to their design, UFO lights cover a broader area and are ideal for places with high ceilings. The LED technology ensures that these lights consume less energy and last much longer than traditional lighting options. High Bay UFO Lights: These lights are designed for ceilings that are 20 to 40 feet high. They are typically used in large commercial spaces like warehouses, gymnasiums, and train stations. Low Bay UFO Lights: These are intended for ceilings ranging from 12 to 20 feet high. Low bay UFO lights are perfect for smaller spaces such as retail stores, restaurants, and offices. Choosing the right type of UFO light is crucial for ensuring the proper brightness and light distribution. Installing a high bay light in a room with a lower ceiling (e.g., 12 feet) will result in excessive brightness, while a low bay light may not provide sufficient illumination for higher ceilings.

April 2, 2025 - Artika_ Home Lighting - Mastering Mood Lighting with CCT Lights
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Artika: Home Lighting – Mastering Mood Lighting with CCT Lights

Correlated color temperature lights (CCT Lights) are a type of lighting that provides various color temperatures. These impressive lights can mimic the natural variations of daylight. They are also measured in Kelvin (K), which influences the warmth or coolness of the light emitted by a source. Setting the right tone in your home can be challenging when you don’t have the best lighting. Lights aren’t just there for brightening a space, as they can also enhance your daily experiences with warm and cool colors. Changing the color of lighting can instantly transform a space. What stands at the center of mood lighting are correlated color temperature (CCT) lights. Keep reading to learn more about mastering mood lighting with CCT lights.

LightForm: Designs We Love - Balancing Orbs
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LightForm: Designs They Love – Balancing Orbs

Lately LightForm has noticed that many of their favourite new lighting designs share a common quality: their shape comprising of orbs or spherical objects balancing within, on, or around some curvi/linear structure. This blog will explore the popularity and appeal of these designs and provide 9 examples of this emerging trends like the IC Lights S Suspension by Flos. Glowing orbs have long been a popular and convenient shape for lighting designers, just look at some of the most beloved lighting designs in history: Flos’ Glo-Ball collection designed by Jasper Morrison, and Foscarini’s Gregg Collection designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba. Lately though, the sphere is being combined with another element: some linear or curvilinear structure that both serve as a juxtaposition to the sphere’s organic shape and to provide a framework within which the orbs can play.

Magic Lite: How to Solve the Most Common Challenges in Landscape Lighting Projects
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Magic Lite: How to Solve the Most Common Challenges in Landscape Lighting Projects

Landscape lighting is far more than just enhancing aesthetics — it plays a critical role in improving safety and security, extending outdoor functionality, and increasing property value. Yet, architects, contractors, and real estate developers consistently face key challenges when specifying and installing outdoor lighting. The wrong fixture choices or poor planning and installation can lead to…

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Cooper Lighting Solutions: Improving Efficiency in Lighting for Municipalities & Utilities

Explore the efficiency benefits of connected network lighting control. Municipalities and the utilities that serve their residents are tasked with managing significant lighting-related costs for the installation, maintenance, and powering of streetlights and other infrastructure lighting. So, improving efficiencies in infrastructure lighting and operation may result in considerable savings. That’s where connected network lighting control comes in. The addition of network lighting controls allows for proactive management of lighting inventory and improved operation and maintenance of infrastructure lighting. Users have full view of system-level performance – including fault detection – right from their remote device. A CMS (Central Management System) dashboard lets users check, troubleshoot, and diagnose the operational status of every light fixture in the system, and it automatically provides fault detection and flags recommended maintenance which in turn streamlines workflow and ultimately results in fewer trips to the light pole.

Mar 20, 2025 - Artika_ Light Up Your Culinary Haven - Spring Kitchen Lighting Tips
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Artika: Spring Kitchen Lighting Tips

After a long winter, spring is finally here to make our world feel bright and full of life, and some well-thought-out tweaks to your kitchen lighting can do the same for your home! These relatively simple changes can not only make your kitchen more functional but can also bring together the overall look and feel of the space. Let’s dive into Artika’s spring kitchen lighting tips. Learn how the right blend of task, ambient, and accent lighting can bring the functionality and atmosphere of your kitchen to another level!

LEDVANCE What Are LED Recessed Downlights

LEDVANCE: What Are LED Recessed Downlights?

Recessed downlights, also known as can lights, pot lights, and recessed lighting, offer a modern alternative to traditional recessed lighting. Installed into a hollow ceiling opening, these fixtures provide a clean and minimalist look, enhancing the sophistication of the space. With the advanced LED technology today, recessed downlights can deliver exceptional lighting and help to reduce electricity and maintenance costs, making them an ideal choice for cost saving. The fixed recessed downlight remains a classic choice, but there are downlights with swivels available on the market today. If you want a recessed downlight aimed at specific directions, the gimbals’ recessed lighting​ style can meet your needs. This style is perfect for highlighting artwork, displays, or architectural features.

Hybrid Lighting Controls - A Symphony of Wired & Wireless Technologies
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Cooper Lighting Solutions: Hybrid Lighting Controls – A Symphony of Wired & Wireless Technologies

The world of lighting control has entered a new era, blending the strengths of wired and wireless technologies into hybrid solutions. This approach delivers unmatched flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability, and ease of maintenance—meeting the diverse needs of modern buildings and their occupants. But what exactly is hybrid lighting control, and why is it gaining traction in the industry? At its core, hybrid systems allow seamless integration of different communication protocols and device types within a single lighting control ecosystem. Combining the reliability of wired systems with the adaptability of wireless systems, this synergy allows lighting designers, electrical contractors, and building managers to optimize each project by choosing the best technology for each specific application.

Legrand: Wattstopper PLUS - Networked Lighting Controls Solution
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Legrand: 7 Things Specifiers Need to Know About Plugtail Wiring Devices

Connect to the future with PlugTail wiring devices. When it comes to specifying commercial buildings, it’s hard to know what the future holds. Today it may be a conference room, but tomorrow it could be multiple workstations. One reliable constant—there will always be unique power requirements. PlugTail wiring devices by Legrand, which use a first-of-its-kind technology, are designed to accommodate those needs with flexible solutions that can satisfy a building’s electrical requirements today, tomorrow and for years to come.

How Technology is Reshaping Lighting Design - Augmented Reality, Sustainability, Smart Lighting, & 3D Printing
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Cooper Lighting Solutions: How Technology is Reshaping Lighting Design – Augmented Reality, Sustainability, Smart Lighting, & 3D Printing

Technology is rapidly reshaping the lighting design industry, offering new ways to streamline workflows, enhance aesthetics, and optimize energy efficiency. In 2025, lighting professionals will have more tools than ever to balance creativity, functionality, budgets, and project timelines. Among the most exciting advancements are augmented reality (AR) applications, which address common design challenges by bringing visualization and precision to the forefront. Alongside AR, other transformative trends – including sustainable lighting solutions, smart lighting systems, and 3D printing – are redefining the possibilities for lighting design.

Mar 5, 2025 - EB Horsman_ Benefits of Upgrading Your Facilities Lighting System
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EB Horsman: Benefits of Upgrading Your Facilities Lighting System

Upgrading your facility’s lighting system isn’t just a trend; it’s a smart investment that can deliver long-term benefits across energy savings, maintenance costs, and environmental impact. Whether you’re in a residential, commercial, or industrial setting, newer lighting solutions like LEDs can revolutionize your energy efficiency and operational efficiency. Here’s why upgrading matters:

Feb 25, 2025 - Buy Energy Star Certified Lighting to Save You Money
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Buy Energy Star Certified Lighting to Save Money

How Buying Energy Star Can Cost You Less & Give You More. Thanks to impressive energy efficiency gains in lighting products over the past couple of years, household lighting remains at 3.5% of the energy used in the average Canadian home despite an increase in the number of fixtures in homes. In commercial and institutional settings, lighting accounts for 13.5% of energy used.