Light+Building Artist Spotlight: Ken McClymont
Tell us about where your internal inspiration comes from? How does it influence the work you do? And how do you want others to view and experience your work? My work is influenced by just about everything I experience on a day to day basis, added to which, I include what I already know artistically. […]
Light+Building Artist Spotlight: Virginia Scadeng
Tell us about where your internal inspiration comes from? How does it influence the work you do? And how do you want others to view and experience your work? Most of my work is a result of memories, and the landscape or structures within. Sometimes I intend to make a painting based around this experience, […]
Food Meets Light | Q & A with Worktecht
SORAA recently had the opportunity to partner with Japanese lighting design firm Worktecht, and lighting community group LOOG, to facilitate a workshop about how light impacts customers’ perceptions of food. SORAA representative, Masa Kumikawa, along with cuisine specialist Sachiko Sachiko, educated participants about how they can implement lighting technology for their clients in innovative ways […]
Masters of Light: Gabrielle Serriere
What comes to mind when you hear the words artist, palette, texture, or masterpiece? Most people may conjure thoughts of a painting or sculpture; for Gabrielle Serriere, the terms help articulate a day in the life of a lighting designer. Gabrielle, an independent lighting designer living and working in Portland, Oregon, started her career as […]
How Olympic Athletes Use Light to Improve Performance
Whatever physiological variables we measure, we usually find that there is a maximum value at one time of day and a minimum value at another. — Jurgen Aschoff, “Circadian Rhythms in Man,” Science, 1965. Jurgen Aschoff was a German biologist and physician who is credited with helping found the field of chronobiology, or […]
The Benefits of Being a Morning Person
The morning lark versus night owl debate is a timeless one. In part that’s because, while we may not always be acutely aware of it, each of us has an individual chronotype, or variation of our internal body clock, that regulates our sleep-wake schedules. About 50 percent of this is genetics. But the other half […]
Living in Light: How our Overall Health is Affected by the Lighting Around Us
Light is all around us, but most of us don’t really think about it on a day to day basis. We may even take for granted how much light fuels our basic needs and functions. There’s no shortage of reasons why light is integral to our health, but here are some of the most important […]
Part 3: Picking the Brain of a SORAA Scientist Aurelien David
In the final section on LED design, learn about the difference between lumens and lux, the introduction of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies into LED, what exactly “efficiency droop” means, and some insight into the future of LED. We spoke about color previously, but what is color temperature? Color temperature describes whether the light “feels” warm […]
3 Tips for Lighting Art
Properly lighting a work of art can make all the difference creating a dynamic home gallery. Whether used for an elaborate display or as a soft and subtle highlight, lighting is meant to place your art at center stage. With proper lighting techniques, your artwork can be admired safely and optimally for years to come. […]
Torchlight Series: Talking Art, Creative Inspiration, and Light with Sei Smith
During Art Basel, the world-renowned art fair in Miami this past December, we partnered with Superfine!—a fast-growing, hyper-curated art fair that spotlights up-and-coming contemporary artists. As part of our collaboration, we lit the artwork of Apostrophe Gallery, the iconoclastic art gallery created in 2012 by two NYC-based brothers, Sei and Kei Smith. We were able […]