Vancouver’s Karice debut innovative new Olah Table Lamp

Vancouver’s own international award-winning designer, Maurice Dery, and his team at Karice unveil their newest lighting creation, Olah Table Lamp. The anodized light gold finish blends in perfectly with the gold tones selected by interior designer, Aleem Kassam of Kalu Interiors in an upscale downtown Vancouver Condo project. Mounted on a stone side table, the lamp…

November 13, 2018

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Casino lights and sounds encourage risky decision-making: UBC

The blinking lights and exciting jingles in casinos may encourage risky decision-making and potentially promote problem gambling behaviour, suggests new research from the University of British Columbia. The findings, published in JNeurosci, the journal from the Society for Neuroscience, suggest that sensory features in casinos may directly influence a player’s decisions and encourage riskier choices—raising new…

October 31, 2018

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L A M P lighting awards accepting entries for 2019

With the 2018 winners now announced, L A M P (Lighting Architecture Movement Project) is preparing for its sixth annual international lighting design competition and is sending out a call for entries to designers worldwide to participate. Submissions open October 1 and the deadline to submit is January 31, 2019. In addition, L A M P…

October 2, 2018

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Toronto’s ANONY draws accolades for Highwire lighting system

Launched at the 2018 Interior Design Show (IDS) in Toronto, the Highwire pendant by ANONY has been well received by the public and design professionals alike. Co-founders Christian Lo and David Ryan are thrilled with the positive response and plan to expand their line. Highwire is a gravitational balancing act, created by tension between two points…

September 20, 2018

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Canadians among lighting design winners at L A M P competition

Celebrating its fifth annual event, L A M P has announced its 2018 international lighting design winners and will present the awards on Tuesday, September 18 in Vancouver, Canada. The gala event honours the best in established, emerging and student designers from around the globe and kicks off the Offsite Programming for IDS Vancouver. “BALANCE was…

September 18, 2018

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Eureka Lighting introduces Twin and Bloom LED pendants

Eureka, an established Montreal-based leader in decorative lighting solutions, today announced the release of its Twin and Bloom products. The Twin has been designed to be used in settings where a cozy atmosphere is needed as well as a functional purpose fulfilled, while the Bloom offers beautifully diffused ambient light. The Twin has a double-layered shaded,…

September 12, 2018

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Finalists announced for L A M P lighting design competition

Preparing for its fifth annual gala event, L A M P has announced its top 10 lighting finalists in three categories for 2018. Judged by some of the world’s top lighting industry leaders, the lights were chosen from over 142 submissions worldwide, from 85 cities and 28 countries. This year, L A M P’s gala…

August 8, 2018

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Toronto’s Castor Design introduces ‘Induction Wall Light’

Developed by Toronto-based Castor Design, the aim of the new Induction Wall Light is to use a scientific concept to approach lighting in a unique way. It powers a burnt-out fluorescent bulb through an electromagnetic field. A fluorescent bulb is normally lit with a wired connection at each of its pins, sending power through the filaments…

July 19, 2018

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Karice grabs attention with new Da Vinci Lighting Collection

If the Renaissance Man were alive today, how would he use his body of work to design a lighting collection? This is the inspiration for Maurice Dery’s latest avant-garde luminaire series.The light was designed, developed, and manufactured in Surrey, BC by the father-son design team at Karice Enterprises: Maurice and Jordan Dery. The Da Vinci collection…

June 21, 2018

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IESBC ‘Vision Awards’ celebrate the best in B.C. lighting design

On May 31, the Illuminating Engineering Society of British Columbia (IESBC) awarded its 2018 ‘Vision Awards’ recipients, which honours outstanding BC lighting designers for their projects. Submissions for the ‘Vision Awards’ open yearly in January. UBC Museum of Anthropology - And to 6500K in the afternoon, then warming as we move towards Sunset. Photo credit: Ema…

June 4, 2018