This work is from my early career, when I was fresh out of school and working as a theatrical lighting designer in Los Angeles. I…

The next version of LEED is coming… Slowly. What was originally slated to be LEED 2012 has been approved by membership and will be rolled…

Why Daylighting: As an (electrical) lighting designer, daylighting is exciting to me for a lot of reasons.  There are energy conservation reasons, of course–40% of…

Here is something you can do on Friday:  Now playing at the Hyde Street Studios with Boxcar Theater company, True West by Sam Shepard.  This…

Image above: South exposure glazing at 3pm, noon, and 9am. Prologue: I have been wanting for  to better educate myself on daylighting design and analysis,…

Update:  This article was written early in the design process and the library underwent considerable development after it was written.   I’ve since written a case…

Cutoff is dead.  Long live Cutoff. Most lighting designers are somewhat familiar with the Cutoff classification system for fixtures.  It’s a measure of how well…

Or, dispensing with the floor part:

Or, I Could Do Something Like This:

There’s a Corner of my Apartment that is a Problem. See, my windows face north, so even on sunny days, which are rarer than unicorns…

A lighting design for Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece

Note: This content originally appeared on my theatrical lighting design portfolio site, www.wingedvictorydesign.com. I decommissioned that site to reduce the number of websites that I…

A lighting design for an interconnected pair of plays about a marriage, and what comes after