John Bullock Lighting Design
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Since joining Lux Review as Applications Editor I have regular articles appearing on the website, so this section has become a bit of an archive for me - what I used to write before it got serious!
But all those earlier, random, musings are available here.
CONDUIT (6) - Lighting for Winter Gardens
This will be the last article for The Conduit magazine for a little while and I hope everyone's enjoyed my little outings into the Land of Lighting. I was inspired to write this piece on garden lighting in winter following a client demonstrati...
01-12-2015
CONDUIT 5: Home Lighting - LED Lighting (2)
As promised in the previous issue of The Conduit magazine, published here in Sherborne, here I take a further look into the world of LED lighitng and the trend for 'retro-fit' lamps - those light sources designed to replace conventional tungs...
28-09-2015
FX Magazine: Lighting Focus - Sustainability (Issue 258)
To read the article in the magazine, click on the image here. Scaling The Mountain Someone compared the embracing of a sustainable way of doing things to climbing a mount...
03-09-2015
CONDUIT 4: Home Lighting - LED Lighting (1)
Continuing my series of advice for lighting the home, I've been looking at LED lighting - a huge subject so divided across two pieces. Here's the first of the pair, published in the August issue of The Conduit magazine. A question that ...
27-08-2015
Can Smart Lighting Save The Planet?
LUX magazine asked me if I'd write a piece for them about how I thought new tech (smart tech if you insist) can save the planet - that's not how it came out. Although this image, accompanying the article, is a bit too apocalyptic for my ta...
30-06-2015
CONDUIT 3: Home Lighting - The Bathroom
This is the third article in my on-going series of articles on lighting for the home, published in The Conduit, Sherborne's monhly free magazine. And here's the text: This is the third article in my series of Lighting For The Home; we&r...
28-05-2015
Can Lighting Save Us From Ourselves . . . NO!
Where is lighting commentary headed? Once upon a time, lighting magazines concentrated on things that I cared about; how light and space worked together, lighting techniques and how lighting technology could best serve the practicing designer. I f...
28-05-2015
CONDUIT 2: Home Lighting - The Dining Room
Here's the second article for my local free magazine - being read by Les Sherbornais throughout the town and good people even further abroad! This time out, we're looking at the dining room, which is the natural place to go once you're...
24-04-2015
CONDUIT 1: Home Lighting - Lighting for the Kitchen
Writing for The Conduit The Conduit is a local free magazine produced in Sherborne and features all things Sherbornian. A short series of articles produced for local consumption, but - thanks to the all-reaching internet - available to everyone. ...
10-04-2015
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 10
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
17-09-2014
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 9
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
17-09-2014
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 8
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
04-09-2014
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 7
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
01-09-2014
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 6
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
12-08-2014
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 5
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
04-08-2014
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 4
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
28-07-2014
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 3
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
27-07-2014
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 2
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
11-07-2014
The Life and Times of the LED - Article 1
I've been writing about the curious, sometimes strained, relationship that exists between LED lighting and Sustainability issues - with some surprising finds. Thanks are due to LUX magazine for the original commission of ten articles, beginning i...
10-07-2014
Re-lighting The Coach House
The story of our move to Sherborne and the desperate need for new lighting is being told in the pages of LIGHTING magazine - both in print and on-line. Copies of the printed articles can be downloaded here. ...
29-04-2013
In Conversation With ...
LIGHTING magazine has been running a series of articles where lighting designers have been 'in conversation' with other building design professionals. In the March issue, I was 'in conversation' with Mark Carey of Morgan Carey Architects. {IMG}...
16-04-2013
Letting in the Light
This article was written for the February 2012 issue of Dorset magazine. Whenever a magazine publishes photographs of a fabulous new home, you recognise each room straightaway. But it's as if the rooms aren't really lived in. It'...
03-02-2012
Writing Blogs
It's always nice to have your writing appreciated by others, and even more so when it comes from pals who are keen to develop their web-presence. High Technology Lighting, those kind gentlemen in Leeds have asked me to ghost-write their blogs for th...
03-02-2012
Roll Up! Roll Up!
I think that it's very important to support anyone prepared to bring some levity into our humdrum lives, and am deeply thankful to those fun guys at Lights of America for making a mundane afternoon much easier to get through. There I was, clickin...
04-10-2010
Frankfurt Spirit
And it's welcome once again to WickiWorld the page that sheds light on the issues of our dim and gloomy past. And what an in-box we've received this month! Of course, with so many centenary parties planned we should have expected it, but...
29-07-2010
Angels and Lumens
Hello boys and girls, and its time for another in our occasional series of What's that all about, then? And this month, coming straight from the in-box, we have: Why are Light Taxis called Angels? What's that all about, then? And wh...
01-04-2010
It's Not Easy Being Green
Just when you thought it might be safe to go out at night, it turns out that weve all been seeing it wrong. How do I know this? Because of the work done by a bunch of Euro-boffins under the banner of the Mesopic Optimisation of Visual Efficiency pro...
01-02-2010
How do LEDs measure up?
Id like you to take yourself off to a really quiet place, like the padded shed that you keep at the bottom of the garden for this kind of thing, and then just push the ordinary silence to one side. If you listen through the gap, youll just catch th...
02-11-2009
Take to the streets
Different times call for different measures, and theres been no time quite like this one, thats for sure. Ive never had so many people taking an interest in my life and doings; everyone of them concerned for my welfare and ensuring me that I can b...
01-05-2009
Protracted parsimony
I had an e-mail the other day from a journalistic friend: did I have any recent experiences that Id 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 achi...
01-04-2009
Online turnoff
Its strange where the mind takes you in those moments when its not chained down by the mundane business of earning a living. And thus I am surprised to find myself being drawn to Ayn Rands famous architect: Howard Rourk in The Fountainhead. Its u...
01-03-2009
In the loop
Good evening and Id like to thank you all for coming out on this cold evening. As youre aware, the lighting surrounding this building needs be improved, with a view to reducing the carbon footprint without compromising the situation for t...
01-02-2009
As Easy as Falling off a Cliff
Im sorry. What was I saying? Its just that its been one of those years when you come out the end wondering which direction you were facing when you went into it. Theres probably some appropriate Dickensian turn of phrase for it, but I just cant ...
01-01-2009
LEDs, black holes and bankers
We were on holiday in Cornwall on the day of the Great Day of Banking Nationalisation (as it will become to be known), and I was looking forward to walking into our local NatWest with clenched fist raised: Good Morning, Comrades! By the time we got...
01-12-2008
Quantum Spin
Hello? Is John there? Thats John speaking? oh, thats great. Wonderful. Hi, John, how are you? I know I havent been in touch lately but I was really hoping to speak to you and I didnt want to leave a message on your answer phone - and anyway, yo...
01-11-2008
Pixel Imperfect
Mysteries. Life is full of Mysteries. The very first thing I remember being mystified by was how Santa Claus would be able to negotiate our new gas fire. I was perfectly comfortable with the idea of a jolly fat man in a red suit dropping down the chi...
01-10-2008
Plus ca change ...
Here we are with a brand-new sparkly magazine, looking all fresh and bright-eyed. And heres me still staring out at you, jaundiced and twisted by the vicissitudes of the lighting business. But hey - what better opportunity to open up the dusty cup...
01-09-2008
Lost in the Library
There are times when it feels as thought the catalogue library has a life of its own. Not an original thought, as anyone familiar with the Discworld novels will be well aware, but when its your library that sits there and mocks you well, thats a ...
01-08-2008
