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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 
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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  Hartranft Lighting Design (HLD), with offices in Washington, DC, Boston and Charlotte, is expanding its design presence and client services with the addition of Catherine Leskowat as senior designer.  Catherine believes in human-centric design, and in finding the beautifully simple solution to a design challenge. Every day is a chance to collaborate with other creative minds and leverage an understanding of light and human factors to create healthy built environments that bring delight to users. Catherine is a lighting designer and project manager with experience in a diverse range of projects from infrastructure to houses of worship, historic renovation and labs. Catherine has served on the IALD Education Trust Stipend Committee since graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelors in Interior Design. She also teaches lighting design for architecture and interior design at the Boston Architectural College. A rainbow over St Francis hospital the morning she was born might have foretold her future in lighting design, or later her interest in architecture and photography, but Catherine was around 16 when she picked up a coffee-table book of a lighting designer’s portfolio at the library and saw a spread showing four different lighting scenes in the same space. “The potential of light to impact human experience, necessarily inseparable from space-making and materiality, continues to fascinate me. To share the transformative power of light is why I am a lighting designer.” E d u c a t i o n Bachelors of Interior Design, University of Oklahoma College of Architecture, 2013 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Light and Health Institute, 2016 A f f i l i a t i o n s International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), Associate Education Trust Stipend Committee 2015-Present Student Ambassador, 2012-2013 Awards Committee, 2018 Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), Associate International Interior Design Association (IIDA), Associate US Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED AP ID+C, 2016-Present About Hartranft Lighting Design.
Now with more than 100 years’ collective experience and 2000+ projects inform our approach to responsible lighting design solutions, Hartranft Lighting Design applies specialized expertise to help architects, developers and owners realize their vision of commercial, institutional, and mixed-use spaces. Hartranft Lighting Design is a woman-owned business (WBE) with offices in Charlotte, Boston and Washington, DC. |
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