Increasingly lighting designers are empathising the importance of mood when planning interior lighting design. The idea is to avoid “flat” lighting created by rows of fluorescent/ LED light fittings. It’s all depending on the type of interior that must be lit. In the case of a pharmacy with rows of shelves displaying multiple small items […]
The human eye can distinguish more than a million different shades of colour. Daylight is true colour and all colours, and shades of colour, are distinguishable one from the other no matter if it’s cloudy or sunny. Some artificial lighting is not true colour and the degree of purity is compared with daylight with an
Bright sunlight has a lighting level of over one hundred thousand lux, bright moonlight less than one lux. Amazingly the human eye can read a newspaper in bright sunlight and still read the headlines of a newspaper in bright moonlight. Street lighting averages thirty lux, lounge lighting one hundred lux, office lighting five hundred lux,
In 1990, in America, a lab technician working late at the Hewlett Packard company noticed a faint glow coming from his desk when he turned off the lights to go home. On investigation he found the glow was coming from an electrical component he had been working on called a diode. Thus is the origin