Architectural lighting designers creatively curate functional and appealing lighting concepts. In this blog post, we dive in deeper to the role of a designer, and how they balance concepts of art and science to light up a room.

Illumination plays an integral role for the people who use or visit a space. Even when what we think we see when taking in architecture is form, texture, or size, the foundation of everything we see—and more importantly, how we see it—rests with light.

In the heart of downtown, with the winding Chicago River at its feet, Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel is in a prime location where business, theater, shopping and recreation merge. However, 25 years after it was built, the hotel wasn't capitalizing on that key asset. Read more about how CharterSills and partners changed that. 

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More Fascinating Facts About the CharterSills Team
In a recent post, we started a series where we share interesting facts about the people behind CharterSills. This month we feature Erin Held, Design Director, and Sean Murphy, Senior Project Lighting Designer:

There is no doubt that the near-term future of lighting belongs to the LED.

Inexorably, LEDs have replaced traditional lighting sources in our homes, offices and workplaces. The urban landscape has been forever altered by bright, white LED street and pedestrian lighting. Buildings soar into the sky illuminated as beacons to be seen for miles.

In a recent post, we started a series where we share interesting facts about the people behind CharterSills. This month we feature Mark Sills, Design Principal, and Chris Lewis, Project Lighting Designer:

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Fascinating Facts About the CharterSills Team
Do you find that you can work closely with people, but rarely know much about them? Since that’s often the case — and because we also have really cool people on our staff — we wanted to share some random, interesting facts about the people behind CharterSills.

This month we feature Warren Charter, Design Principal, and Kristin Grube, Lighting Designer:

Fresh off Lightfair 2016 in sunny San Diego, I’m struck by how very informative and exciting the experience was this year. In all honesty, some years have been disappointing — lacking enough new information or cool products to justify the trip. But this year stood out. We share some of our “finds” below.