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Douglas James
Douglas James, Director of Mindseye Lighting has over twenty years of experience in lighting design. Having studied art and photography in his earlier years, he has had a life long interest in light which he pushes to many creative and innovative levels. Douglas started his career at ...
Emrah Baki Ulaş
Emrah Baki Ulaş is a Sydney based “light” enthusiast. His career with “light” began working for the International Istanbul Biennial, and numerous other international events organised by “Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts”, where he worked during his university years. Following his undergraduate degree in Bogazici ...
Francesco Iannone
Francesco Iannone has been working with lighting design and industrial design applied to lighting for 25 years. Since graduating in Architecture from Milan Polytechnic in 1975, he has devoted all is efforts exclusively to lighting. In 1986, he founded the Consuline office in Milan, where he ...
Giovanni Traverso
Giovanni Traverso (Bolzano, 1969) graduated in architecture from the IUAV in Venice in 1994 and completed his studies with MsC in Light&Lighting at the Bartlett, University College London. In 1996 he founded with Paola Vighy the traverso-vighy studio in Vicenza,where they develop light-weight buildings ...
Glenn Shrum
Spanning the fields of design and art practice, Glenn Shrum's work with light places him at the center of converging professional disciplines. Mr. Shrum has received numerous awards for his work in lighting design, exhibition design, furniture design, interiors, sculpture, and architecture. Trained as an architect ...
Kai Piippo
Kai Piippo is one of the founders (now the sole owner) of Ljusarkitektur AB, (Ljusarkitektur = Light architecture) the leading lighting design company in Scandinavia. Ljusarkitektur is working with various different lighting design projects, both interior and exterior in all of Scandinavia, USA, China and Middle ...
Keith Bradshaw
Keith Bradshaw developed his interest in lighting design through his training in art and architecture at Bourneville College of Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He has over 10 years experience as a lighting designer having previously worked for KSLD where he worked ...
Martin Lupton & Sharon Stammers
Between them, Martin and Sharon have over 30 years of experience in the lighting industry ranging from Lighting Design to involvement with the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association. As the lighting profession begins to evolve and expand in a myriad of directions, it is the ideal time to ...
Paul Traynor
After working as in-house lighting specialist for architectural / multi-disciplined practices RMJM and Aukett, Paul Traynor established indigo light planning in 1999. The practice has grown in eleven years into one of the most significant independent consultancies in Europe, handling major projects such as NATO’s new headquarters ...
Ta-Wei Lin
Ta-Wei Lin, received his Bachelor of Architecture from Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan and M.S. in Interior Design from Pratt Institute in New York. Mr. Lin also studied industrial design at Domus Academy in Milan, Italy. He has been the director of CWI Lighting Design ...
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