Lighting Trends
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The Dimmer is Dead…But the Future is Under Control
Presented by:
David Warfel, Chief Evangelist of Light, Light Can Help You
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What You Will Learn
Designers know that light can make a kitchen or bath more comfortable and inviting – and that dimmers are a must-have for setting the right mood. But is it time to retire this much-loved technology so our projects do more than just look great?
Advances in smart home technology are quickly rendering traditional dimmers obsolete. Some of the most influential dimmer manufacturers are betting big on the next wave of lighting fixtures instead of dimmers. Why? The rise of layered lighting solutions can take some credit, but the advancement of our understanding of the biological impacts of light and the supporting shift in technology are the primary motivators of this seismic industry change.
Come hear why a leading designer believes the dimmer is dead – and why controls are in the future of any well-designed space.
During this session, you will:
- Identify how the dimmer became a key tool of quality lighting everywhere, especially in kitchens and baths.
- Explore how biology and technology are rendering the dimmer obsolete, causing an industry-wide shift in lighting fixtures.
- Discover methods for improving kitchens and baths with lighting controls from simple smart homes to fully integrated environments.
- Plot a course forward for your projects that better serves your clients, every hour of every day, through a more informed delivery of light.
Featured Presenter
David Warfel – Chief Evangelist of Light – Light Can Help You
David K. Warfel is an overly sensitive, marginally materialistic, pseudo-tree-hugging Midwestern farm boy turned lighting designer, author, educator, and speaker. He is the founding designer of Light Can Help You, a quirky and disruptive nationwide lighting design practice focused on making high quality design accessible to a wider audience. His list of design credits confirms talent or luck, or perhaps a combination of both, and includes projects and performances at Carnegie Hall; Luxor, MGM Grand, and Fashion Mall on the Las Vegas strip; Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and the DuSable; multiple projects on board Royal Caribbean cruise ships; and countless residential projects across the continent.
David’s work and writing have been featured lots of places that lighting geeks hang out, like Technology Designer, Fine Homebuilding, Lighting & Sound America, Lighting (Australia), Lighting Design & Application, Live Design, and Houzz.com. He puts the stuff that isn’t good enough to be published on his blog at languageoflight.blog and can usually be found hunting for cheese curds in his home state of Wisconsin.
Webinar Sponsor
Control4
Control4 is a leading provider of automation and networking systems for homes and businesses, offering a personalized and unified smart home system to automate and control connected devices including lighting, audio, video, climate control, intercom, and security. Founded in 2003 by Eric Smith, Will West, and Mark Morgan, Control4 debuted at the 2004 CEDIA Expo home technology trade show and released its first products later that year, as an early entrant in the home automation market.
Over 15 years later, the Control4 operating system now interoperates with approximately 14,000 third-party products, is available in over 100 countries, currently runs in around 400,000 homes, and orchestrates more than 15 million connected devices worldwide. Installation of the Control4 system is done through a network of nearly 6,000 authorized dealers who install the hardware and configure and customize the software to unify and personalize the homeowner’s technology.
Control4 is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and was a publicly traded company from 2013 until 2019, when it merged with SnapAV.