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Lighting (re)surfaces

Mary Rushton-Beales and Gordon RoutledgeThe newly (re)launched Lighting magazine has commissioned a series of features from Lighting Design House’s Mary Rushton-Beales. The series explains issues related to lighting all types of surfaces and uses a ‘sketchbook’ format with illustrations of the type often used to explore concepts at an early stage of lighting design. It begins with the ubiquitous but tricky medium of glass. The series is mainly aimed at the magazine’s large readership of architects, as well as lighting professionals.

Although Lighting magazine has been in existence since 1969, it was recently relaunched with new publishers in the UK and USA. The revivified magazine has a new high-end format and production values. Mary’s ‘sketchbook’ sits alongside extensive articles on subjects such as architect Jorn Utzon’s use of natural light; bioluminescence and other topics relating to ‘illumination in architecture’.

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Image: Mary Rushton-Beales and Lighting magazine co-founder Gordon Routledge

How to tackle scourge of ‘spec busting’

Mary Rushton-Beales of Lighting Design House will tackle the perennial problem of ‘protecting the specification’ as one of featured speakers at an online conference in April 2105.

Known as ‘spec busting’, the widespread practice by contractors of substituting poorer-performing fittings and sources for those carefully researched and chosen by the designer, undermines lighting schemes and short-changes clients.

Mary will be tackle the subject at the Online Lighting Solutions Conference hosted by Lighting and Interiors Online. The conference will look at all aspects of lighting specification and procurement facing the lighting industry. All the conference materials will be available at any time for six months for £9.99 paid to the organisers.

For details click Lighting Solutions Conference.

Light, colour and emotion

CIBSE event features Monocrom ‘tasters’

Mary Rushton-Beales and Dr Meher Engineer to co-present in London
13 August 2015, 18:30-21:00

CIBSE, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, will host a CPD event led by Lighting Design House’s Mary-Rushton-Beales and Dr Meher Engineer of Monocrom, examining the links between light, colour and emotional wellbeing. This seminar promises to be stimulating in more ways than one, since it includes demonstrations of the Monocrom Light Dome. The 400mm-diameter dome creates the illusion of infinite space filled with brilliant colour projections, a uniform field of monochrome light from chosen points anywhere on the visible spectrum.

Dome used for lighting design

Dr Meher Engineer and her colleagues at Monocrom have spent many years investigating the colour light, and wellbeing, factors recognised in CIBSE’s Lighting Guide 02: Hospitals and Health Care Buildings. Mary Rushton-Beales is an advocate of colour therapy and a visitor to Dr Engineer’s London practice where in addition to its use in therapy, lighting designers and interior architects use the Monocrom Light Dome to simulate coloured environments.

Title (On CIBSE site) Colour Dome In London
Date 13 August 2015, 18:30-21:00
Venue Pushkin House, Holborn, London WC1A 2TA

The event is open to non-members, but registration is essential via www.cibse.org or Eventbrite

Colour therapy is a complementary therapy. If you have a medical condition or health concerns you should seek guidance from your doctor or other medically qualified health care professional