Lighting design family tree
Family Ties Family Tree (noun) - A drawing or diagram that shows the relationship between the different members of a family, especially over a long period of time.
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t’s often said that the lighting industry is one big family.
engineering, product design, architecture, theatre and manufacturing.
your extended family members at events and you can
of the profession that started with the small scale exercise sketched
However, it’s small enough that you get to meet many of
Light Collective want to build upon their previous work and analysis
easily move from one branch to another. Also, like many
in a notebook and grew to the UK Lighting Design Family Tree. The
families, it is complicated and over time, the career paths of
new family tree is going to be global, exploring the links,
In 2011, Light Collective scribbled out our personal branch of the
profession. Where do we overlap? What common experiences do we
love child of Andre Tammes and Miles Pinniger, two of the pioneers
much more?
LightMatters and BDP.
We would like you to use the link at the end of this article to share
include other designers in the UK and to demonstrate the entangled
career. You need to currently be working as a lighting designer.
shared their roots and journey with us and enabled us to create a
“Data represents real life. It is a snapshot of the world in the same
In 2011, there were 82 designers featured from 47 companies. This
unconventional data visualisations promote slowness – a particularly
were able to see who worked overseas, who had worked for the most
we can create visuals that encourage careful reading and personal
designers in UK, that 18% of company names started with the word
what it represents.”
designers…
International Lighting Designers Family Tree on the Ligman stand at
mapping the ancestry of UK lighting designers, and we are ready for
online, you can visit and add yourself on to the wall. If you do add
an International Lighting Design Family Tree. Yes - that’s right…
The long term plan for the project is to continue to add designers on
With the 50th Anniversary of the IALD, the Lighting Design
It will then continue to develop and we will offer a second viewing at
The 2019 International Lighting Design Survey, published by arc
made over the two years of the project.
designers span many companies and also countries.
backgrounds, education and career paths of the lighting design
Lighting Designers Family Tree. We realised that we are the bastard
share? What are the trends, history, scale, outliers, comparison and
of the UK lighting industry, with a good chunk of foster care from
We are asking designers to provide their data to help us get it right.
This spurred us on in 2014 to try and create a bigger family tree to
with us the companies you have worked with in your lighting design
and complex mesh of entwined practices and people. UK designers
In the words of award-winning information designer Giorgia Lupi:
colourful graphic (that nearly drove us mad in the making!).
way that a picture catches a small moment in time. Dense and
expanded in 2014 to include 253 designers from 142 companies. We
poignant goal to set in our era of ever-shortening attention spans. If
companies, that Daniel was the most popular name for lighting
engagement, people will find more and more real value in data and in
Light and that there were 70% male designers and 30% female
We plan to use this data to create a physical version of the
Now, time has passed and we have forgotten the challenge of
Light & Building in 2020. If you don’t get round to adding your data
something bigger. With the help of Ligman, we are planning to create
your data, come along and see what we have created.
International. That could include a lot of people!
to the Family Tree as part of an online version that will grow digitally.
profession has now been around for a significant amount of time.
Light + Building 2022 with additional data added and comparisons
magazine, is the biggest yet with almost 1600 lighting design practises featured. Over the last ten years new generations of
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