Award-winning lighting designer Lucy Carter is rarely restricted in her art. Though best known for her collaborations with choreographer Wayne McGregor, she has worked in opera and theatre as well as ...

Lighting goes way beyond the lamps in our living rooms. On view are 85 rare (or limited-edition) pieces from lighting designers, from Wilhelm Wagenfeld to Gino Sarfatti and even the Memphis Group's ...

Bruno Poet tells Nick Smurthwaite about the importance of tungsten lighting following the proposed EU ban, going on tour with Sigur Ros and Bjork and his return to the Bridge Theatre for A Midsummer’s ...

A new solar light by Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel combines sustainability, technology and design to evoke the sun’s glow in an interior setting. It’s ‘a light mimicking the sun and powered by the ...

When most of us walk into a room and flip on a light switch, we don’t look up unless the bulb is blown — and fewer still glance admiringly at the fixture itself. The handcrafted creations of US ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. With the rising costs of energy and increasing governmental requirements for high efficiency lighting, the high ...

Design Week: What is a lighting designer? Tim Routledge: I work as a lighting designer across the entertainment and broadcast industries, so I look after the visual look and feel of a show once a set ...

The dancer spins gracefully on to centre stage and strikes a pose. Gyandev Singh sits in a dark room overlooking the proscenium. He gently pushes two of the 60 switches on the lighting panel. A blue ...

Howell Binkley, the Tony Award-winning lighting designer behind “Hamilton,” “Jersey Boys” and “In the Heights,” died Aug. 14 after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 64. The theater community took ...

The lighting designer must also know the play very well. They work closely with the director to understand what they want to communicate in each scene and where the focus of the action onstage should ...