david k warfel
It’s November! My 2023 Light Can Help Us series is nearing its end, the revisiting of my preferred language of light nearly complete. Or is it? Long before Light Can Help You was born, I began experimenting with a new language of light, a new way to talk about why light is important and how it... Continue Reading →
Writing a new series for designing lighting magazine is giving me a chance to revisit some of the material posted here earlier this year, repurpose for a professional audience, and refine my thinking. The creation of a new approach to lighting is never done...and I am grateful for the opportunity to keep working! Click HERE... Continue Reading →
I have always been me, yet everything about me- and around me- has changed. This is true of every human on the planet, in every nation: we are always changing. Some of these changes are inevitable: none of us can avoid growing older and encountering the changes that come with aging. Other changes are those... Continue Reading →
“Midlife crisis” has a negative connotation and some pretty lousy associations, so perhaps it is time that I stop using the term to describe the events that, around midlife, pushed me in a new direction. Let’s call it a “light bulb moment” because the pun is irresistible and, well, it describes the situation. A switch was flipped.... Continue Reading →
CEPro, a leading custom integration magazine, is increasing its coverage of lighting and adding content designed to help integrators grow in the business. It is an honor to be included from time to time in that effort, such as the recent article on task lighting. Read it HERE!
My wife and I use our bedroom for sleeping, getting dressed in the morning, and a few other things I won’t mention. Our children, over the course of the past twenty-plus years, have used their bedrooms for sleeping, dressing, and nearly every other activity imaginable. At different times in their lives, our children have read books, built... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/DFeTEIYohzs?si=H3NRhMN_kg9VayTg It's great to see our work on camera! Legrand made this great video of a project in Atlanta showcasing their LHuman control solution from Vantage, and I got to be there for the event (and ended up on camera, too). This is a good looking project that needed everything to work together: a forward-thinking... Continue Reading →
A big shout out to CEPro for covering a recent project featuring Vantage's LHuman control paradigm that shifts colors of the course of a natural day. This was a fun project to design with a great client, and one of of the earlier full-color daylight projects we've seen completed. Read more about it HERE.
Light is so awesome that I occasionally need reminded that light is not everything. The human experience- in nature, in buildings, with others- is affected by so many variables from the particles in the air to the temperature around us to the views outside…and by what we ate, how we slept, who is nearby, what... Continue Reading →
It's great fun to see some of the blog content showing up in other places, such as the latest article from industry magazine CEPro. Check it out HERE!
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