High Style in Degrees Kelvin: Connecting Residential Lighting to the Rainbow Bridge

Lighting requires artistic vision applied to solving problems. Both the functional problems and tools for solving them have changed. What remains timeless are projects that function as needed and go far beyond, evoking emotion and promoting wellbeing.

The color, quality and combination of LED light is most successful when it achieves its purpose without adding demand for the viewers attention, when the viewer is unconscious of it, when it is simultaneously seen and not seen.

Because there are many choices, navigation along the color spectrum is challenging, rewarding and risky. Research shows it has physiological effects that must be considered.

Learning Objectives:

Learn the best combinations of color metrics and techniques for achieving desired results. The participant will come away with great new insight and enthusiasm.

See ten effective lighting techniques. Learn in detail how to achieve them, and when and why to use them.

Develop new questions to analyze successful projects for inspiration and point of view as well as how they were realized.

Learn why and how specific LED colors affect people neurologically, and how the predictable results can influence behavior and wellbeing.

Attendees will learn about how to manage the risk that comes with using colored light so that it is more than just bright colors or decoration and allows designers to find the inner value of its use.

Steven L. Klein is Owner of Klein Lighting. A professional grade Member of the IALD, Steven lectures nationwide on a variety of lighting topics and held a Faculty teaching position at  the Milwaukee Institute of Art and  Design for many years.

Bio:

Steven L. Klein is Owner of Klein Lighting located in Fox Point, WI A professional grade Member of the IALD.  Steve didn’t stumble into the lighting profession by chance or happenstance.  He was born into it and literally grew up in the lighting business. He lectures nationally on lighting design related topics. His most recent presentations include Grow! 2016 (a Havenrock Production) DLFNY LEDucation 2016, Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo. He has provided presentations for Neocon World’s Trade Show and LightFair International on multiple occasions. His unique lighting solutions can be seen in many national periodicals including: Professional Lighting Design, Architectural Record, Lighting Design and Application. The Lighting Journal, and  Kitchen and Bath Business.  Steven has earned many Edwin Guth Awards of Merit and an International Award of Excellence  from the Illuminating Engineering Society.

What qualifies you to speak:

A 39 year lighting veteran and still loves lighting. I believe in lighting education and I wrote and teach a 2 Hour course at a MIAD in Milwaukee. I keep it fresh because I'm a designer and  use something new in every job every job. I’ve got great speaker evaluation reviews for content and passion.

Why are you knowledgeable

I grew up in the business, served the industry as Full Line Salesman for Lightolier for 12 Years, served to design and create several Light Labs in my territory, Worked as the Lighting Consultant for a wholesale electrical distributor for 11 years. Business Owner, designer and specifier since 1998.

New Age Lighting Integration for the Age of Aquarius Generation

Description

Proper lighting has a huge influence upon the aging population's health and quality of life. This session provides a fresh, well-illustrated perspective on lighting technique, lighting quality issues, and an exploration of the responses that elderly people display to various lit environments. Presenters will offer vision, sleep, and neuroscience research along with in-the-field design work over the past decade that shows a direct correlation between the quantity and quality of illumination and a person’s health, productivity, and safety. Discuss how sustainability and cost reduction can also be achieved without sacrificing performance by using various lighting techniques and myriad innovative products.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the common clinical problems enountered as we age and their effect on the visual system. Promote well-being by ""bringing the outside in"" with simulated daylighting techniques. Learn how to evaluate the newest LED technology and where best to employ them to create value-added design. Understand how improved lighting techniques combine for greater client satisfaction.

Topic: Using Your Head to Light From Your Heart

We are all engaged in creating a fairly narrow part of our built environments, and it is turning out to have a much greater effect on us than anyone who made the first light fixtures ever expected. Neurological research is showing us so many important responses to light. While this is expanding, the effectiveness and fun we could have with unlimited use of electricity to accomplish healthy and exciting lighting has been drastically curtailed by sustainability goals and thus the need for cutbacks on energy consumption. The challenge for us is to still give our clients truly great outcomes. Lower energy allowances have a positive side: paring down the ideas for a project lets the very best of them be stronger and work for the aesthetic of the project. This forced editing can actually be a strong driver of clarity in design. Like all fields of design, lighting requires artistic vision applied to solving problems. Both the functional problems and tools for solving them are changing. What remains timeless are projects that function as needed and go far beyond, evoking emotion, promoting health, and delighting us. Successful lighting designers achieve these results because they see what the project can be regardless of the materials or energy allowed.

"It's different at MIAD.

There is a gritty energy to this place, and we thrive on it.It’s central to the journey we’re one's we work, create, tear down, start over, fail, succeed, fail again, triumph, and transition from being purely passionate to being passionate professionals.

We build off of one another, collaborate and solve problems together. We connect in meaningful ways to the community and take inspiration from the environment we’re a part of to help make our neighborhood, city, state, country and world a better place.

We believe in the power of art and design to not merely reflect the world, but to change it.

MIAD is where passion finds purpose"

Lighting Elixir: Tonic for SAD Interiors and Stimulus for Happy Staff and Patient Satisfaction

People tend to interact spontaneously or engage in a predictable manner of connection within an area where there is a combination of good lighting and color. Lighting also significantly impacts the quality of everyday commerce and human connectivity, affects the scale of movement and leisure, and renders specific aesthetic qualities of approach, pause, transit and departure. The foundation for generating clear and successful design concepts more than ever revolves around lighting integration. Scientific research reveals new thresholds on how light affects not just vision, but also neurology and the attitudes of people in healthcare environments. This knowledge, plus ongoing research in the field, coupled with the latest LED lighting and control technologies, opens up a whole new scope for practicing designers in all sectors of their work. . Familiar lamp types are being legislated out of existence. New performance standards are being phased in. New rules and unfamiliar new sources create some uneasiness among practitioners.

Learning Objective 1
Attendees will learn the new standards, explore LED technology receive a satisfying explanation to the reasons why the new products can replace the old, which products are excellent choices (and which are not) what the differences will be, and what to expect in performance and lighting quality.

Learning Objective 2
Understand the interconnection of color and light from user-friendly evidence based
perspective in order to broaden your professional expertise while specifying color and light.

Learning Objective 3
Explore research-driven findings relating to the human need for color and light and discover, how as designers, we can make a meaningful difference in the lives of all who occupy that space.

Learning Objective 4
Learn simple and affordable techniques using color and light to visually enhance any indoor space while adding to the comfort level, productivity and performance of all occupants within that space.

At Home With LEDs

Great residential lighting still means providing the right glare-free light for every task, illuminating art and enhancing architectural features, and those special effects that contribute so much to life at home. Stringent energy requirements mean solid state LEDs are a must, displacing nearly all other lighting technology. Now that performance data is published, results are finally predictable. Luminous spaces affect people on many levels, and while lighting is not medicine, research shows it has physiological effects to be considered. Quality ofmaterial, color, andsubtlety ofits integration makes all the difference.

Specify the right LEDs and fixtures to achieve beautifully luminous residential spaces that support the people who live in them, considering the latest light and health research.

Learning objectives:

Learn why and how specific LED colors affect people neurologically, and how the predictable results can influence behavior and well being.

See how the new types of fixtures that use LEDs can support tasks and contribute to the aesthetics of residencesin new ways.