Diary for April 2009
19th Whose side are you on
I see that the professional organisation to whom I pay an annual wedge – that’s the Society of Light and Lighting – have produced a new Handbook. Now I’ve always presumed that SLL is there to look after my interests, being a professional kind of chap, and perhaps also generally to promote good lighting design practice. How wrong can I have been – and I’ve paid my subs! According to a co-author of the Handbook, one Peter Raynham, only about 5% of lighting schemes are produced by people who know ...
2nd Happy happy designers
So IALD designers are cautiously optimistic about their work prospects. Hmmm. I can’t help feeling that its the same old story of two guys who, having fallen from a building, look at one another on the way down and say, “well – so far so good”. It’s too soon and too naive to know how this downturn is going to turn out. Yes, we can talk about how important lighting designers are because of “increased environmental awareness”. But it’s just another way of saying that clients will continue to use ...
1st Protracted parsimony
I had an e-mail the other day from a journalistic friend: did I have any recent experiences that I’d like to share about clients needing to reduce project budgets in these straitened times (© john bullock: 2009) and did I have any tips on how to achieve said things. I stared at the screen. There was something wrong here, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I didn’t reply and decided to go away for a bit of mulling; the Dodger and I strolled over hill and dale in search of The Key to this M...
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