The Distinguished Service Award is presented in recognition of continuous dedicated service to the Society, principally of a non-technical nature, having significantly furthered the purpose for which the Society was founded, and continued over a number of years in various programs and activities at, typically, regional and international levels. Andrea Hartranft noted "Paula has had a positive impact on the lighting industry at every level, across multiple sectors - she has educated, evaluated, innovated and led with knowledge, experience and humility, always with the best interests of the IES at heart.I cannot think of anyone more deserving of the Distinguished Service Award. Paula has worked and led on time intensive, technically and educationally relevant committees since 1990. She has plugged in wherever needed, tirelessly working to create, update and improve whatever she is assigned or has identified as needing additional support. Her impact with IES includes:
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The International Day of Light is a global initiative that provides an annual focal point for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy. The broad theme of light allows for many different sectors of society to participate in activities that demonstrates how science, technology, art and culture can help achieve the goals of UNESCO – education, equality and peace. Hartranft Lighting Design marks the occasion with a new gallery, Search Light. We hope you enjoy a peek at the light we found in our own archives.  We take many more photos than a generation ago. We accumulate these images in growing databases in our various digital devices and cloud storage. While digital photography has changed the way we create, accumulate, and store images, the essential element of photos remains the same: Light.
The ways we capture, retrieve and share these images have also changed how we interact with them. For fun, we used the search term "light" in our own photo collections and share them in our gallery Search Light, playing with shapes, form, lines, color, etc. We are, after all, lighting designers. From the HLD Gallery, Define Your Light The image represents light at the end of the tunnel. I began with a photograph I had taken and applied color filters to represent white as its component colors and overlapped layers these using different transparencies to create a prism like background. The text symbolizes repetition of voices, thoughts, fears, concerns and aspirations during a time of crisis. At the center is light and light is hope.  One of the guilty pleasures of this difficult time is getting a peek inside spaces that are usually private – the homes of friends, coworkers, even celebrities. In a recent HLD staff meeting, as we looked at a tile of each other’s faces, we noted the lighting each of us set up for the call, and how we’ve all had to adjust our homes as we spend more time there. As lighting designers, we know that light is one way we can gain some control over our environment. Out of that conversation grew a challenge, a question for each of our designers: What are you doing to keep yourself inspired during this time of isolation? Some of us responded with specifics about lighting our workspaces; others focused on career inspiration or waxed philosophical. Get another peek inside, as we share these responses in our HLD Gallery, Define Your Light  From the HLD Gallery, Define Your Light Since I was a child, the “play” between light and dark, brightness and shadow, has captured my heart. The inclusion of sunlight is paramount as well as ambient light which creates the surrounding glow. Light often warms a person intellectually, physically, and physiologically. It makes you want to curl up on the sunny spot on the floor or curl up with a book by the table lamp.  One of the guilty pleasures of this difficult time is getting a peek inside spaces that are usually private – the homes of friends, coworkers, even celebrities. In a recent HLD staff meeting, as we looked at a tile of each other’s faces, we noted the lighting each of us set up for the call, and how we’ve all had to adjust our homes as we spend more time there. As lighting designers, we know that light is one way we can gain some control over our environment. Out of that conversation grew a challenge, a question for each of our designers: What are you doing to keep yourself inspired during this time of isolation? Some of us responded with specifics about lighting our workspaces; others focused on career inspiration or waxed philosophical. Get another peek inside, as we share these responses in our HLD Gallery, Define Your Light From the HLD Gallery, Define Your Light How I define light at home is with a combination of indirect light from a linear LED desk lamp and natural light from the window adjacent to my home office desk. The desk lamp offers a soft illumination to the space by being directed towards the ceiling. It also has adjustability with dimming and color temperature options. The window, which is usually open, brings in daylight, a lovely landscaped view, and often a nature soundtrack of sorts.  Light is dynamic. The sunlight and shadows bring a hint of the nature indoors with contrast and this gentle ebb and flow. One of the guilty pleasures of this difficult time is getting a peek inside spaces that are usually private – the homes of friends, coworkers, even celebrities. In a recent HLD staff meeting, as we looked at a tile of each other’s faces, we noted the lighting each of us set up for the call, and how we’ve all had to adjust our homes as we spend more time there. As lighting designers, we know that light is one way we can gain some control over our environment. Out of that conversation grew a challenge, a question for each of our designers: What are you doing to keep yourself inspired during this time of isolation? Some of us responded with specifics about lighting our workspaces; others focused on career inspiration or waxed philosophical. Get another peek inside, as we share these responses in our HLD Gallery, Define Your Light From the HLD Gallery, Define Your Light Light is the foundation of all design. It creates color and texture, establishes the mood, and can enlarge or shrink a space. It is delicate and powerful.  One of the guilty pleasures of this difficult time is getting a peek inside spaces that are usually private – the homes of friends, coworkers, even celebrities. In a recent HLD staff meeting, as we looked at a tile of each other’s faces, we noted the lighting each of us set up for the call, and how we’ve all had to adjust our homes as we spend more time there. As lighting designers, we know that light is one way we can gain some control over our environment. Out of that conversation grew a challenge, a question for each of our designers: What are you doing to keep yourself inspired during this time of isolation? Some of us responded with specifics about lighting our workspaces; others focused on career inspiration or waxed philosophical. Get another peek inside, as we share these responses in our HLD Gallery, Define Your Light From the HLD Gallery, Define Your Light This is my reading nook, where I usually finish the afternoon's work or play guitar. I find watching the sunset or rise keeps me grounded in these crazy times.  One of the guilty pleasures of this difficult time is getting a peek inside spaces that are usually private – the homes of friends, coworkers, even celebrities. In a recent HLD staff meeting, as we looked at a tile of each other’s faces, we noted the lighting each of us set up for the call, and how we’ve all had to adjust our homes as we spend more time there. As lighting designers, we know that light is one way we can gain some control over our environment. Out of that conversation grew a challenge, a question for each of our designers: What are you doing to keep yourself inspired during this time of isolation? Some of us responded with specifics about lighting our workspaces; others focused on career inspiration or waxed philosophical. Get another peek inside, as we share these responses in our HLD Gallery, Define Your Light From the HLD Gallery, Define Your Light In this time of isolation, I have defined my light by the location of my partner and I as we co-work in a little space. I start my morning watching the sun come up through my expansive windows and I follow it around the open space like a cat. My two cats have the luxury of napping in the sun, but it makes me feel warm and productive when I start my day. I never turn any of my overhead lighting on in my workspace, but I do have lamps that I adjust the CCT for. When it's cloudy, I've been pointing an adjustable lamp head upward for indirect lighting when necessary. When it's time to "leave the office", I've been changing my color-changing lamp system to fun colors like Magenta, Green, and Red. It makes the space feel urban and fun. I also hope it gives pedestrians passing by a visual treat among the dim amber windows to see a pop of color on the top floor.    One of the guilty pleasures of this difficult time is getting a peek inside spaces that are usually private – the homes of friends, coworkers, even celebrities. In a recent HLD staff meeting, as we looked at a tile of each other’s faces, we noted the lighting each of us set up for the call, and how we’ve all had to adjust our homes as we spend more time there. As lighting designers, we know that light is one way we can gain some control over our environment. Out of that conversation grew a challenge, a question for each of our designers: What are you doing to keep yourself inspired during this time of isolation? Some of us responded with specifics about lighting our workspaces; others focused on career inspiration or waxed philosophical. Get another peek inside, as we share these responses in our HLD Gallery, Define Your Light From the HLD Gallery, Define Your Light Light encompassing Transformative to all things Becomes our touchstone  One of the guilty pleasures of this difficult time is getting a peek inside spaces that are usually private – the homes of friends, coworkers, even celebrities. In a recent HLD staff meeting, as we looked at a tile of each other’s faces, we noted the lighting each of us set up for the call, and how we’ve all had to adjust our homes as we spend more time there. As lighting designers, we know that light is one way we can gain some control over our environment. Out of that conversation grew a challenge, a question for each of our designers: What are you doing to keep yourself inspired during this time of isolation? Some of us responded with specifics about lighting our workspaces; others focused on career inspiration or waxed philosophical. Get another peek inside, as we share these responses in our HLD Gallery, Define Your Light From the HLD Gallery, Define Your Light My tiny home is all about daylight. My south-east facing windows catch the sunrise and fill my living/work space with rainbows on our sunny days, and the sun sets out my west facing windows behind a gorgeous brick watch factory that gave my town it's nickname, the Watch City. I live by the sun complimented with task lights during the day, and bring out my (innately) warm-dimming incandescents in the evening, and some pretty wild uplighting when I'm playing with conference call lighting for game night with the family!  One of the guilty pleasures of this difficult time is getting a peek inside spaces that are usually private – the homes of friends, coworkers, even celebrities. In a recent HLD staff meeting, as we looked at a tile of each other’s faces, we noted the lighting each of us set up for the call, and how we’ve all had to adjust our homes as we spend more time there. As lighting designers, we know that light is one way we can gain some control over our environment. Out of that conversation grew a challenge, a question for each of our designers: What are you doing to keep yourself inspired during this time of isolation? Some of us responded with specifics about lighting our workspaces; others focused on career inspiration or waxed philosophical. Get another peek inside, as we share these responses in our HLD Gallery, Define Your Light  |
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