Resources for Better Lighting Design

Lighting Techniques and Tips
HGTV.com (Home and Garden TV) offers a plethora of decorating principles and tips involving lighting techniques and craftmanship. Select from articles, techniques and tips on nearly every aspect of lighting from lighting design to lighting fixtures, bathroom lighting, table lamps, refurbished chandeliers, garden lighting, chandelier lampshades, kitchen lighting, ceiling fan makeovers and more.

Lighting Fixtures and Design Articles
A wealth of articles including lighting for living spaces, demystifying track lighting, ceiling fan installation and selection, seasonal affective disorder, touch the light, outdoor deck and patio lighting, bedroom lighting, kitchen lighting, landscape lighting, ceiling fans, residential lighting design, green lights and design, clubhouse lighting and design, lamp technology, hospitality lighting design, under cabinetry and cove lighting, track lighting cable and rail, light nouveau, lighting dimmers and controls, lighting office spaces, recessed lighting, and lighting design.

Good Lighting Should be Both Practical and Decorative
Lighting designers Shelia Bridges and Eric Cohler have teamed up to produce a website covering the beauty of lighting and how the proper lighting can affect mood in a postive way, while the wrong lighting design, or the wrong type of lightbulbs can actual destroy one's inner peace. For example, they discuss the proper angle for tracklights and ways to highlight crown moldings properly. They discus lighting placement to break up the lines of a room and to show off details in the kitchen. They discuss the best kind of light for task lighting and the best way to accent pictures and add drama to a room. Chandeliers are discussed in-depth, including the proper size chandelier for a dining room and for a living room. If you are interested in light as a way to make a personal statement, then this site clearly has you covered.

Light Fair International Trade Show and Conference
This is the web site for the world's largest annual architechtural and commercial lighting trade show and conference. The convention is held in New York in April of 2005, and features exhibits and manufacturers of lighting in fields like landscape lighting, transportation lighting, architectural lighting, interior lighting, home lighting, office, retail, energy efficiency, residential, restaurant, government, and health care. All sorts of lighting design innovations and fixtures and bulbs will be on display.