Coming to the University of Toronto in early June, the largest and oldest meeting for catering to the Canadian lighting industry will host the two-day Smart Sustainable Lighting Network (SSLNet) conference with talks by industry and academic leaders, and an industry showcase to exhibit the latest products and service.
The lights — sustainable and not —…
Canadian lighting designer Saleem Khattak, owner of Vancouver-based Archilume, is introducing three new luminaire systems — Alto, Aura and Balance — for modern architecture and interiors at New York’s ICFF trade show on May 20–23. The 30th annual ICFF tradeshow, North America’s platform for global design, will map the newest frontier of what’s best and what’s…
Since 2012, Lucion Media works with light and shadow theatres hosted into vinyl spheres: an installation called moonGARDEN. Since its creation, more than one million people have been amazed by its luminous shadows. From here came the idea to take them outside of the spheres, expose them upon light, ally them to LED lighting and…
Canada150, the sesquicentennial celebration of Canadian Confederation officially ended midnight December 31, 2017. It had not been the blowout party of 1967. Charlotte Gray’s Globe and Mail opinion piece was even titled “Canada 150, Doomed from the Start, Now Ends with a Whimper.” In part, she concludes that the centennial celebration was primarily boosterism for a country still ill-defined and distorted by a narrow narrative. 50 years later, Canada’s story is both more self-assured but also fluid, marked by triumphs but also dark currents that often remain…
Canada150, the sesquicentennial celebration of Canadian Confederation officially ended midnight December 31, 2017. It had not been the blowout party of 1967. Charlotte Gray’s Globe and Mail opinion piece was even titled “Canada 150, Doomed from the Start, Now Ends with a Whimper.” In part, she concludes that the centennial celebration was primarily boosterism for a country still ill-defined and distorted by a narrow narrative. 50 years later, Canada’s story is both more self-assured but also fluid, marked by triumphs but also dark currents that often remain…
The Montreal-based brand d’Armes, behind which stands the design duo of Alexandre Joncas and Gildas Le Bars, has unveiled its latest creation, the Cé light fixture.
audaciously blends fringes and solid bronze revealing a well-rounded wall mounted fixture. The unique movement of the fringes brings a fluid effect, distinguishing this piece from previous collections, all the while…
The Illuminating Engineers Society is bringing a pair of lighting design seminars to Alberta's largest cities. Both themed 'Listen to the Architecture,' the seminars are coming to Calgary and Edmonton on April 18 and April 19 respectively, featuring lighting designer Chip Israel as a keynote speaker and presenter.
Using case studies, these IES presentations will provide…
Based out of Toronto, hollis+morris takes it’s name from an intersection in Halifax where the company started as a series of garage explorations in design. The recent opening of the company's 2400 square foot showroom will show off additions to the current collection in one curated space. With interconnected veils of radiant pendantsand walls that…
Winners of the first ever LIT Design Awards were announced this week, celebrating some of the most aesthetically and technologically innovative lighting projects from around the globe. The awards created to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and lighting implementers. We believe that lighting is an art and a science, and it…
Lambert & Fils announces The Mile, a new collection designed in collaboration with Guillaume Sasseville, Creative Director of Montreal-based studio SSSVLL. Sasseville is renowned for his exploring archetypes and injecting them with wit and resonance. “We invited Guillaume to fuse with our team and creative process”, says Samuel Lambert the lighting design studio’s Founder and…