We were delighted when we were approached by World Wildlife Fund to provide exhibition & lighting design consultancy on this prestigious event. It was particularly important for WWF they worked with a design company with environmental & eco-friendly principles & ethos. SMA design’s own eco evolution started over 7 years ago, which leaves our consultancy uniquely [...]
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Commercial & Architectural Lighting Design: Please don’t leave it to us!
November 7, 2011
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Sorry for the delay in bringing this next part of our lighting design blog on commercial and architectural lighting design, but as you have probably seen our studios have been very busy on project all in some way needing quality lighting layouts. “Please don’t leave it to us” might seem a strange title for a [...]
Read more Enough Headaches – The Well-being Factor of Lighting Design
June 2, 2011
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Architectural lighting design or commercial lighting can either make or break the spaces we work, rest, shop or play in so it is important to get the building lighting design right first time. Good lighting design can create drama, define, accentuate and enrich on so many different levels, get it wrong and the opposite it [...]
Read more Lighting Design – It’s a difficult choice (Part 2 – Fibre Optic Lighting)
March 23, 2011
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Last month we took a look at LED’s and how they can play a new role in all lighting environments with the exception of lighting some paintings etc. See Lighting Design, It’s a difficult choice (part one) for the full story. Also thank you for the nice comments you have been sending us regarding our [...]
Read more Lighting Design – It’s a difficult choice (Part One)
February 21, 2011
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As promised this months trek really is going to try to spell out the main differences and myths that surround various lighting technologies which are being used in museum, retail and office environments. Let’s start with LED’s as they are certainly the relatively new boy on the block and in my view the way forward [...]
Read more Lighting Design in Pursuit of the Holy Grail
January 17, 2011
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Last months lighting design blog brought up the subject of how many museums & galleries both in the UK and internationally are confused by so much conflicting pieces of information on how to achieve good lighting design, including the many various lighting technologies and lighting controls. In this months lighting bog we will address the [...]
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December 13, 2010
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A revolution in lighting design is finally taking place. It has taken many years for museum people and organisations to realise that the investment in good museum lighting and of course an experienced museum lighting designer really pays dividends. For example take a mundane object which normally would not get a second look from a [...]
Read more 10 ways we put ECO into Design
October 7, 2010
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Exhibition showcases that use no mains power from the buildings supply to light the internal art objects and can be positioned anywhere without the need for clumsy or inconvenient electrical connection points. Museum & retail design where the visitor flow provides a sustainable energy source which reduces the buildings carbon footprint and running cost. Exhibition [...]
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