Hiram Banks Lighting Design Makes a Splash with Forward-Thinking Medical Office

by Lois I. Hutchinson | Mar 19, 2019 | WestCoast Lighting Insider | 0 comments

Lighting as a Service: New Tool or Old Saw?

by Lois I. Hutchinson | Feb 19, 2019 | WestCoast Lighting Insider | 0 comments

Passamonte Green: Lighting Designers Are Storytellers First

by Lois I. Hutchinson | Jan 15, 2019 | WestCoast Lighting Insider | 3 comments

With a rich history in lighting design for architecture, entertainment, and everything in between, Visual Terrain celebrates storytelling. Principal Designer and CEO Lisa Passamonte Green cultivates a wide variety of clients and project types by discovering the...

With Great Connected Lighting Comes Great Responsibility: Cybersecurity in the Age of IoT

by Lois I. Hutchinson | Nov 27, 2018 | WestCoast Lighting Insider | 1 comment

Ransomware, malware and other cyberattacks are in the news, and with costs in the neighborhood of $100 billion annually in the US alone, lighting equipment manufacturers and designers are moving cybersecurity and resiliency up their priority lists. Customers’...

Basis of Design and Sequence of Operations Avoid “Misunderstandings” in Lighting Controls Design

by Lois I. Hutchinson | Oct 16, 2018 | WestCoast Lighting Insider | 2 comments

Let’s start an AV presentation in your conference room. Why does the lighting ramp up to max as you pull the shades against the daylight? In a dark parking garage, only the light directly overhead responds to your presence. Oh, you wanted an...