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Media: Retail Focus

Retail needs a mix of sources

Retail Focus recently looked at the role of natural light in shops and shopping centres

Caption to comeRetail Focus recently looked into the complex issue of integrating natural and artificial lighting. Daylight is continually changing in intensity and direction. Because it is full spectrum light it shows objects and materials in their true colours by because light is a form of energy it also has photochemical effect and causes some material s to fade or degrade. Lighting designers use tools including software to model its behaviour, mitigate its effects and choose the right artificial sources for day and night.

‘Daylighting is excellent where you have food courts and shopping centres,’Lighting Design House principal May Rushton-Beales told the magazine. ‘But for retail space to be successful you need to highlight products. I think you can save more energy and gain more benefits in a retail scheme or shop with a really, really carefully considered artificial lighting scheme than with a daylight scheme alone.’

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Industry professional on MA Course

“Totally honoured to be among the industry professionals involved in the online MA Interior Design for the Health and Wellbeing course at New Bucks University” Mary Rushton-Beales

Build Back Better judge

“So excited to be a judge on the Build Back Better Awards.” Mary Rushton-Beales Lighting Design House

Suffering from S.A.D?

Recently I have had occasion to look at 3 individuals’ home-working environments, who all suffer from S.A.D. This led me to reprise a vein of enquiry via NHS Health A-Z which really annoyed me…

Is blue light bad for your child? Article by Mary Rushton-Beale

Is blue light bad for our children?

I wonder if one day we will talk about the time when we spent hours without respite looking at a cool white screen, in the same way as we talk about how doctors used to promote cigarettes? Mary Rushton-Beales

Residential lighting

…the lighting in your home
needs to adapt to many different moods, ambient and functional

Lighting rocks

‘I’ve been designing the lit environment for more than 30 years and I suppose it’s quite appropriate that this was my most difficult lighting challenge ever’ Mary Rushton-Beales

Interior lighting

… fine-tuned for the space and its function but, above all, for people

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IALD Light night

IALD Light night, an evening of film 15 March, 6.30 start Avatar Presented by Mary Rushton Beale Full details IALD Film Night

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