# Nulty | Lighting Design Consultants


## Posts

- [Lighting CPDs](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-cpds/): Nulty now offer two Continuous Professional Development (CPD) educational seminars.
- [FX Awards 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/fx-international-interior-design-awards-2014/): We're thrilled to announce that our MATCHESFASHION.COM project has been nominated for another award!
- [Lighting Design Awards 2015](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-design-awards-2015/): The finalists for the Lighting Design Awards 2015 have been revealed and here at Nulty we're excited to announce that we have been nominated for three awards.
- [Fischer's, Marylebone](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/fischers-marylebone/): We've recently completed the architectural lighting design scheme for Fischer's, an informal neighbourhood café and Konditorei reminiscent of early 20th century Vienna, located on London's Marylebone High Street.
- [Place: Light First](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/place-light-first/): Nulty recently formed part of a design challenge - Place Light First - hosted by iGuzzini and the Architects’ Journal.
- [Selfridges Menswear](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/selfridges-menswear/): Retail Focus magazine has featured the new menswear department in Selfridges, London.
- [Spectra](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/spectra/): At Nulty we live and breathe light (with the odd bit of oxygen for good measure, of course) so to have London’s WW1 centenary commemoration on the doorstep of our lighting design HQ was totally amazing.
- [SBID International Design Awards 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sbid-international-design-awards-2014/): Our architectural lighting design scheme for MATCHESFASHION.COM has been shortlisted in the Support Services (to interior design projects) category of this year's SBID International Design Awards.
- [VQ Bloomsbury](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/vq-bloomsbury/): Our low-energy and cost-effective architectural lighting design scheme for VQ Bloomsbury, a 24-hour café and diner in London's West End, reinforces the all day every day life of the restaurant space and complements the stylish and modern interior.
- [Chilango in Retail Focus](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/chilango/): Retail Focus has featured our architectural lighting design scheme for Chilango in its "Focus on Lighting".
- [Matches Fashion](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/matchesfashion-com/): MATCHESFASHION.COM, the modern luxury fashion retailer, has opened its doors to a new flagship store in Wimbledon Village, London.
- [SGD Awards 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/society-of-garden-designer-awards-2014/): For the second year running Nulty is delighted to announce that we'll be sponsoring the "Garden & Landscape Lighting Award" at the 2014 Society of Garden Designers Awards.
- [Nulty strikes lightning](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/pnld-strikes-lightning/): Nulty's very own architectural lighting designer-cum-talented-photographer, Vincent Kan, got some great shots of a recent storm over London town.
- ["Nulty Noir" mondo*arc](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/mondo-arc/): The International Association of Lighting Designer's (IALD) 100W Challenge, in which team Nulty took part, has been featured in mondo*arc - have a read here.
- [Light + Building 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-building-2014/): The lighting design team here at Nulty recently made their second visit to Light + Building.
- [John Lewis, York](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/john-lewis-york/): With much excitement the city of York has welcomed its first John Lewis.
- ["Nulty Noir" 100W Challenge](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/100w-challenge-2014/): Nulty recently took part in the 100W Challenge, hosted by the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD).
- [The Future's Bright](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/futures-bright/): Fabric magazine’s section on interiors features Paul Nulty talking about the important relationship lighting design has between a person and the space around them.
- [Society of Garden Designers Awards 2013](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/society-garden-designers-awards-2013/): Paul Nulty was delighted to present the winning award for the lighting design category at the SGD Awards 2013 to Charlotte Rowe MSGD for a project in Notting Hill, London.
- [PLDC 2013](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/pldc-2013/): Paul Nulty took to the stage at the PLDC 2013 to discuss "Redefining the working relationship between the LED manufacturer and the lighting designer" with Philips Lighting's Pete Earle.
- [Workshop Coffee, Clerkenwell](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/workshop-coffee-clerkenwell/)
- [Moving on up](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/pnld-moving-on-up/): Nulty has a new HQ and it’s not just any HQ, it’s an HQ with a view.
- [Celebrating London's Night Clubs](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/celebrating-londons-night-clubs/): Last Thursday evening, sitting in our lighting design HQ, while working away, we were suddenly distracted buy some colour magic!
- [Making your small space shine](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-make-your-small-room-seem-larger-than-life/): Design thrives in large spaces.
- [Lighting Design Awards 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-design-awards-2014/): We're really pleased to announce that we've been shortlisted for five Lighting Design Awards. Fingers crossed!
- [Architects' Journal](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architects-journal/): The AJ Specification features an interview with Paul Nulty where he talks about our current lighting projects, approach to architectural lighting design and much more, including the fact that he doesn't particularly like luminaires!
- [Charge of the light brigade](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/charge-of-the-light-brigade/): On the back of a study by Building research establishment (Bre), Lighting magazine has carried out an investigation of poor in-store retail lighting.
- [In the night garden](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/in-the-night-garden/): This specialist lighting article in Total Lighting magazine looks at making the most of your outside space - big or small - through different lighting techniques, and how outdoor lighting has become an integral part of home design.
- [Spend to save, some bright ideas](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/spend-save-some-bright-ideas/): At Nulty we're constantly on the look out for new ways we can help our clients save energy and money.
- [Retail Week Interiors Awards 2013](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/retail-week-interiors-awards-2013/): We're very excited here at Nulty because our architectural lighting design solution for the luxury fashion retailer Juicy Couture has been shortlisted at the Retail Week Interiors Awards 2013.
- [Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2013](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/restaurant-bar-design-awards/): We're really chuffed that Adventure Bar, Clapham High Street has been shortlisted in the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, 2013.
- [A Point of View](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/a-point-of-view/): Who doesn't like a good view? A view isn't just aesthetically pleasing. It's beneficial in relation to health, well-being and productivity.
- [It’s show time!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/its-show-time/): Hej......that’s hello in Danish!
- [Back to the future](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/back-to-the-future/): At Nulty we're constantly on the look out for new and improved LED retrofit bulb shaped lamps.
- [A guest blog by our friends at XYZ](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-brand-experience/): If you think of brand events, it's important to stress their plurality.
- [Shine on!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/shine-on/): Things have been heating up here in the Nulty office due to the (rare) sunny weather we've been having in London recently.
- [LED-equipped wakeboards](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/led-equipped-wakeboards/): Here at Nulty we love the combination of LED lighting and extreme sports! Enjoy.....
- [Ready Steady Light 2013](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/ready-steady-light-2013/): It was with much excitement that the Nulty team raced to catch the train for Ready Steady Light, 2013.
- [Winner, Lighting Design Awards 2013](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-design-awards-2013/): Nulty is very proud to announce that we recently won a Lighting Design Award for our work at Superdry's world flagship store on London’s Regent Street.
- [Dazzled by the lights](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dazzled-by-the-lights/): This week at Nulty we've been looking at a wonderful part of the lighting design world: some of our favourite chandeliers.
- [Light Output Ratio](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-output-ratio/): What is LOR? Well, according to DIN/EN 13032/2, the LOR is described as “the ratio of the luminous flux of the luminaire to the lumens of the lamps used” – pretty simple, eh?
- [Let’s Tessellate!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lets-tessellate/): We were amazed here at Nulty when we discovered Tessellate™, a kinetic titanium screen which works like a camera aperture, opening and closing to regulate light.
- [Back to Basics](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/back-to-basics-colour-rendering/): The Colour Rendering Index, developed in the 1960s, is a system that measures the ability of a light source to accurately reproduce the colour of an object.
- [The bottom line](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/paul-nulty-interview-mondo-arc/): Paul Nulty sits down with LED lighting pioneer Peter Earle to talk about the industry, lighting basics and a successful first two years here at our lighting design practice.
- [Northern Light Fair, 2013](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/northern-light-fair-2013/): Every year, at the beginning of February, Sweden’s capital is transformed into the world’s largest meeting place for Scandinavian design.
- [Tackling LENI](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/leni-2/): We have blogged, before, about the Lighting Energy Numeric Indicator (LENI). It is a system for calculating the energy efficiency of a lighting installation.
- [Nike House of Innovation, Selfridges](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nike-house-of-innovation-selfridges/): Lighting Magazine’s “Retail Lighting” feature takes a look at LEDs in the sector and asks if retailers are now ready to fully embrace the technology.
- [LightCollector](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lightspiration-lightcollector-the-new-smartphone-app-which-lets-you-collect-and-share-photographs-of-light/): Here at Nulty we're always on the look out for new sources of inspiration.
- [Adventure Bar, Clapham High Street](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/adventure-bar-featured-in-leisure-design-build/): Our lighting design scheme for the popular, fun and quirky Adventure Bar on Clapham High Street has been featured in Bar Magazine - page 18 and 56.
- [In The Mix](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/in-the-mix/): There are two ways to combine the three basic colours (called the three primary colours) to create other colours: additive colour mixing and subtractive colour mixing.
- [Society of Garden Designers Awards](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/society-of-garden-designers-awards/): We’re pleased to announce that we'll be sponsoring the Garden Lighting Design Award at the 2013 Society of Garden Designers Awards.
- [LED, The Great Pretender](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/led-the-great-pretender/): For some years now the quest for greater energy efficiency in lighting has been pinning its hopes on LEDs.
- [Lighting Design Awards 2013](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-design-awards-2013-2/): It appears we’re surfing the crest of a wave right now! We’re pleased to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for our 7th award in the last 18 months.
- [Retail Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/retail-lighting/): In October 2012 Paul Nulty wrote an article for Retail Focus magazine discussing the important role lighting design plays in the retail sector.
- [Staffing the lighting profession](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/staffing-the-lighting-profession/): In May 2012 Paul Nulty wrote an article for the PLDA column in Lighting Journal magazine discussing the difficulties of training and attracting young talent into the lighting design industry.
- [Lighting Legislation](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-legislation/): In February 2012 Paul Nulty wrote an article for A1 Lighting magazine discussing the impact of lighting design legislation and provided his thoughts on how we need to remain focused on providing light for people, not to tick boxes.
- [Ban the Bulb](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/ban-the-bulb/): In February 2010 Paul Nulty wrote an article discussing the banning of the incandescent lamp for ID-Sphere.
- [Cove Lighting Tips](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/cove-lighting/): In September 2009 Paul Nulty wrote a useful feature for FX Magazine providing tips for anyone interested in architectural cove lighting.
- [The kids are all light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-kids-are-all-light/): Back in 2001 a rather fresh-faced Paul Nulty was named one to watch in the architectural lighting design industry! Have a read of the article here.
- [Sixtyone Restaurant](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-montcalm-restaurant/): Our lighting design scheme for Sixtyone Restaurant at the Montcalm Hotel London, which includes a bespoke chandelier resembling hot embers, has been featured in Total Lighting magazine here.
- [Superdry, Regent Street](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/superdry-regent-street/)
- [Manchester United Superstore](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/manchester-united-superstore/)
- [New Light on Old Problem](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/new-light-on-old-problem/): LEDs may have moved on from being just an attractive feature to a genuinely usable and functional light source.
- [Juicy Couture, Regent Street](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/juicy-couture-regent-street/)
- [Christmas Lights](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/christmas-lights/): We think pretty much everyone has a neighbour who goes to extremes at Christmas, decorating the house and garden with lights.
- [Q&A with Paul - LightSpec magazine](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/qa-with-paul-featured-in-lightspec/): Philips Lighting's Peter Earle recently interviewed Paul Nulty for a Q&A session in LightSpec magazine.
- [Lux Awards 2012](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lux-awards/): On 6 November, the winners of the Lux Awards 2012 were announced at a gala event at the Natural History Museum, London.
- [Interactive Light Art](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/interactive-art/): We love this interactive light art piece designed by artist Caitlind r.c. Brown.
- [The City Dark](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-city-dark/): Our lighting design team loved this documentary made by filmmaker (and amateur astronomer) Ian Cheney and recommend anyone with an interest in our cities and light (especially any budding lighting designers) watches it.
- [A Blog of Blogs](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/a-blog-of-blogs/): A blog of blogs? Yes, that's right. You could be mistaken for thinking we’re starting a new version of Blankety Blank, but we’re not...yet.
- [Another Bulb Ban](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/another-bulb-ban/): Another year, another ban. Low voltage lamps are to be phased out from next year according to draft legislation released by the European Commission last month.
- [Sattler](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sattler/): We found German lighting manufacturer Sattler at the recent Arc show and were really impressed by the quality of their products.
- [Snowboarding LEDs](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/snowboarding-leds/): A filmmaker's vision of the battle of light against the eternal darkness of night, and an extremely cool way to get down the slopes too.
- [The Arc Show Part 2](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-arc-show-part-2-ellie-coombs-our-roving-reporter/): After last night’s festivities and some early morning meetings, the uncommonly warm and sunny day for March is definitely helping to revive me as I head back to the Arc Show.
- [The Arc Show Part 1](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-arc-show-part-1-ellie-coombs-our-roving-reporter/): Our very own Ellie Coombs recently covered the Arc Show for Australian website illumni: The first thing to strike me as I approach the Business Design Centre is the absence of the ACDC bus that has become synonymous with many lighting industry events.
- [BackLED](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/back-led/): Sometimes it’s the simplest things that are the best.
- [LENI](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/leni/): The Lighting Energy Numeric Indicator (LENI) features within EN 15193, which specifies the calculation methodology and introduces LENI for certification purposes.
- [All That Jaz...](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/all-that-jaz/): Jaz, by Australian manufacturer Varetika, is a seriously powerful piece of controls hardware.
- [Pressing Matters...](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/pressing-matters/): Many architects, interior designers, developers and end users have an interest in lighting – and so they should, as Le Corbusier said: "Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.
- [15 Mins of Fame!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/15-mins-of-fame/): OK, we know it's blowing our own trumpet but this month we quite like the 15 minutes of fame Paul had when featured in November 2011's FX Magazine.
- [Genuinely Sustainable Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/genuinely-sustainable-lighting/): We really do think lighting designers and suppliers need to think beyond simple low-energy lighting solutions and embrace the need to provide environmentally low-impact lighting schemes, including embodied energy, environmental impact of components and recycling.
- [Super Shades & Tiny Track](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/super-shades-tiny-track/): A couple of products have caused a stir in the office this month - Super Sized Shades and Tiny Track, both of which have really embraced the technology that they're based on.
- [Task Lights](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/tasklights/): The original Anglepoise® lamp was designed in 1932 by George Carwardine and little has changed in the world of task lighting since.
- [Let's Go Retro](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lets-go-retro/): It’s widely acknowledged that LEDs are going to be the future of lighting.
- [Light for People](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-for-people/): I love light. Most of us that work within the lighting industry live and breathe light.
- [On Topics](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/on-topics/): The eye is a complex organ that is designed to collect and focus light onto the retina.
- [The Rhythm of Light...](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-rhythm-of-light/): It is taught in schools that human eyes have two types of receptor: low-light sensitive rods that see in black and white, and less sensitive, full-colour sensing cones.
- [Light Pollution](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-pollution-lighting-designers/): Light pollution is a term used to describe unwanted light and we come across it in its various forms on a daily basis.
- [We're on the shortlist!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/shortlist-lighting-design-projects-awards/): Award season is upon us. An exciting but equally nerve-racking time, as you sit at your table hearing the words "...and the winner is..."
- [Olafur Eliasson](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/olafur-eliasson-artist-insight/): Olafur Eliasson is a personal favourite of mine; but the sculptor of light and space has influenced us all here at Nulty, and has inspired the way we think and illuminate.
- [Practice in the Pub](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-design-practice-in-the-pub/): We were well chuffed to be first up in Light Collective's new feature: "Practice in the Pub!"
- [Another Dot in the World](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/another-dot-in-the-world-yayoi-kusama/): There’s something deeply moving about staring at millions of interconnected dots, feeling your infinitesimal smallness in the universe.
- [Swapping Dubai for London](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-middle-east-london-lighting-designer-experience/): Following on from the Nulty Dubai launch party, I headed to the UK to spend a couple of months with the London team for a bit of "Nultification".
- [Travels of a lighting designer](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/travels-lighting-designer-international-consultancy/): As we’ve recently become a fully-fledged international lighting design consultancy – with the opening of our office in the Middle East – it seems like a good time to reflect on the importance and relevance of travel within our industry.
- [Bar side dining](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/bar-side-dining-lighting-design-restaurants/): Open Table, the online restaurant reservation service, conducted a survey recently about the rise in popularity of bar side dining here in the UK.
- [Light Time Economy](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-time-economy-external-illumination/): In recent years there’s been a sea of change in the way we consider external illumination.
- ["Full Circle" Installation](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/full-circle-installation-lighting-sculpture/): “We need a LOT more incense” is not something I ever expected to say whilst at work….
- [Clerkenwell Design Week 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/clerkenwell-design-week-2016-overview/): Last week was a blur of excitement in London as the capital celebrated the annual design festival, Clerkenwell Design Week.
- [Lighting Festivals around the World](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/international-lighting-festivals/): London’s Lumiere and Winter Lights festivals are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to lighting events of this nature (you can read my blog post about them both, here).
- [Global Reach](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/international-lighting-designers-global-reach/): In today's fluctuating and often volatile market, working internationally has never been more important.
- [Retail lighting's new complexion](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/retail-lightings-new-complexion/): We know that light is an influential design tool affecting how consumers experience and interact within their environment.
- [ILMÉX & Seville Fair](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/ilmex-seville-fair-lighting-designer-visit/): Horses, flamenco dresses and traditional Spanish uniforms – not exactly what we were expecting to report back about a manufacturer trip.
- [Clerkenwell Design Week 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/clerkenwell-design-week-2016-lighting-skin-tone/): We’re excited to announce that our groundbreaking research “Shining Light on Skin Tone” will form part of this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW), 24-26 May.
- [Berghaus HQ wins BCO Award](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/berghaus-hq-wins-british-council-offices-award/): Our week at Nulty has finished off on a high with some fantastic news: the recently refurbished Berghaus headquarters up in Sunderland has won a British Council for Offices (BCO) award.
- [Beams of Light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/beams-of-light/): Hectic work days, tight deadlines and many hours in the studio are nothing new to us lighting designers.
- [Exploring iGuzzini's HQ](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-designers-exploring-iguzzinis-hq/): Last week we had the pleasure of being invited on a trip to the iGuzzini Headquarters on the Adriatic Coast in Italy. (Being a lighting designer has its perks!)
- [Nulty Dubai Launch Party](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-lighting-designers-dubai-launch-party/): Last night saw the official launch party of Nulty Dubai and after months of planning and excitement we held an evening of drinks and canapés at the glamorous Atelier M Rooftop bar for clients, press and friends to celebrate alongside us.
- [Dubai office in the Press](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-office-lighting-design-consultants/): It's crazy to think that we're already into the second quarter of 2016 – lighting design stops for no one!
- [Ready Steady Light 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/ready-steady-light-2016/): It seems that many of us haven’t done a full week in the office for quite some time!
- [Office Lighting, Architect's Choice Magazine](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/original-light-source-office-lighting/): Our Director Ellie Coombs recently talked to Architect's Choice magazine about the commercial environment and choosing light sources.
- [Frankfurt Sparkles](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/frankfurt-sparkles-light-building-2016/): We all know Frankfurt Light + Building fair is a bi-annual display of countless technological innovations in the lighting industry, but what happens when we've come across a few too many downlights and a couple more metres of track than we can take in?
- [Everywhere the Light Touches](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/everywhere-the-light-touches/): Two lighting designers – young, female, plucky – step into Messe convention hall.
- [Stand Experiences L+B 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/stand-experiences-light-building-2016/): I’m pretty certain you've all heard quite enough on the luminaire front of Frankfurt: new product ranges, brands, and let's not forget, tunable white.
- [An old-timers Light + Building 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/an-old-timers-light-building-2016/): My third trip to Frankfurt for Light + Building 2016 was full of hopeful expectation to find that most elusive creature: an original idea.
- [A first-timers Light + Building 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/a-first-timers-light-building-2016/): With enough stands to keep you occupied for weeks (literally), I felt I needed to organise my first visit to Light + Building 2016 (LB) wisely.
- [Light for Life](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-for-life-human-centric-lighting/): "Design is about putting the right light in the right place."
- [LuxLive Middle East 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/luxlive-middle-east-2016/): Hot on the heels of opening our new lighting design office in Dubai we’re excited to be participating in the upcoming, highly anticipated LuxLive Middle East 2016.
- [London Underground station lighting concept](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/london-underground-station-lighting-design-concept/): The annual passenger numbers for London Underground is 1.305 billion...
- [What inspires you?](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/what-inspires-you/): There’s something about the sound of ripping gaffer’s tape that transports me to a different place. Or the smell of sawdust.
- [Perfect Skincare Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/perfect-cosmetics-retail-lighting/): There’s something utterly fabulous about buying new beauty products.
- [William & Son, Mayfair](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/william-son-mayfair/): As we know, Mayfair's one of London's swankiest shopping districts so it makes sense that it's the home to William & Son: a luxury brand who has a "particular and definitively British take on the finest things in life".
- [Lighting your rental property](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/city-am-lighting-rental-property-top-tips/): In this City AM feature there are some top tips from interior design and property experts on how to make your own mark on a rental property, for a cosy, comfortable home...
- [London Light Festivals](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/london-lumiere-winter-lights/): It takes a lot to get a lighting designer out of the office on a cold winter’s night. Perhaps a trip to the pub, if it’s not too far.
- [Workplace Wellbeing](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/workplace-wellbeing/): At the latest FX Design Seminar a group of experts from across the board were brought together to discuss what makes a healthy workplace.
- [Dubai office now open](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-lighting-design-office-now-open/): In true Nulty style we’ve started this New Year with a very “big” bang.
- [New Bars & Design Trends 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/new-bars-design-trends-2016/): In the first issue of the new year Bar Magazine looks at a number of leading operators that are planning to invest in new sites and refurbishments over the next 12 months.
- [Lighting Trends 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-trends-2016/): It's that time again - the beginning of a new year - when the talk turns to what's hot and what's not.
- [Amsterdam Light Festival](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/amsterdam-light-festival/): At Nulty, just before the holiday break, we were lucky enough to pack our overnight bags and hop across the water to discover the delights of Amsterdam.
- [Want to join our lighting design practice?](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/want-to-join-our-lighting-design-practice/): Our lighting design practice is expanding so that means we're on the hunt for new designers, for what is a really, really exciting opportunity.
- [Mondo*arc features Nulty at the PLDC](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/mondoarc-features-nulty-at-the-pldc/): Our favourite architectural lighting design magazine mondo*arc shares its experience of this year's Professional Lighting Design Conference (PLDC) in Rome and features a nice little piece about the part our team played in the event.
- [Contemporary versus Traditional Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/contemporary-versus-traditional-lighting/): The start of the distinction between the traditional and contemporary, could really be marked...
- [Residential Luminaires](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/residential-luminaires/): For the last few years decorative luminaires widely used in residential lighting design have been stuck between a rock and a hard place.
- [Lux Live 2015](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lux-live-2015/): LuxLive 2015 at London's ExCel will soon be upon us and we're excited to be part of it again where we'll be presenting some exciting stuff.
- [Mirror mirror on the wall](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/): I had a very interesting call from a gentleman last week.
- [Interior Design Yearbook 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/interior-design-yearbook-2016/): The 2016 Interior Design Yearbook is out and Paul Nulty features once more as a contributor on lighting trends.
- [Brilliance...](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/brilliance/): “It’s not about being brilliant, do what you don’t expect you can do.” - Ray Molony Who doesn’t like a good tip about life, especially from someone who knows their stuff.
- [LewesLight, Festival of Light 2015](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lewes-light-festival-of-light-2015/): When we received a call asking if we’d like to play a part in the inaugural LewesLight - Festival of Light we jumped (very high) at the chance, even though we’ve had a hectic few months here at Nulty.
- [mondo*arc Briefing](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/mondoarc-briefing/): Paul Nulty's passion for architectural lighting design is stronger than ever as he sits down for an exclusive interview with mondo*arc magazine.
- [Light Art Installation - Darc Awards](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/installation-lights-up-darc-night/): It’s fair to say the UK’s lighting industry isn’t lacking when it comes to award ceremonies.
- [Lighting Designers Get Tough](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-designers-get-tough/): Last Sunday a brave few of team Nulty's lighting design squad threw on their outdoor gear and travelled to Hampshire for Tough Mudder London South.
- [Retail Focus, Bright Future](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/retail-focus-bright-future/): Flashing lights in the ceiling of a retail store to help you find a particular product – the concept’s not that far away.
- [Yauatcha City, Broadgate Circle](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/yauatcha-city-broadgate-circle/): It's fair to say the recent opening of contemporary dim sum teahouse Yauatcha City has been a big hit and we're pretty chuffed to have been part of it.
- [More than a launch party](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/more-than-a-launch-party/): There were fuzzy heads in the office last Friday, as last week saw the official launch of Nulty and we held an exclusive party at The Deck, National Theatre for clients, press and close friends to celebrate.
- [More than just a team](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/more-than-just-a-team/): I’ve always loved light and the impact it has on how we feel and behave.
- [FX Awards 2015](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/fx-international-interior-design-awards-2015/): We've a spring in our step here this afternoon, as we've been shortlisted for our work at Spring restaurant, within the world famous Grade I listed Somerset House, London.
- [More Than A 4th Birthday](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/more-than-a-4th-birthday/)
- [Darc Awards 2015](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/darc-awards-2015/): Nulty's lighting design scheme for luxury fashion retailer MATCHESFASHION.COM is still going strong on the award scene having reached the finals for the 'Best Interior Scheme - Low Budget' category of the darc awards!
- [LightScape, Houghton Hall](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lightscape-at-houghton-hall/): Not even extreme weather conditions could stop the curious Nulty team from embarking on a journey all the way to Norfolk county to experience James Turrell’s lighting spectacle, LightScape, at Houghton Hall.
- [Bright Sparks - New Designers](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/bright-sparks/): Every summer, New Designers lands at the Business Design Centre in London’s Angel.
- [Lighting Journal](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-journal/): Paul Nulty shares his insights into the multifaceted role of an architectural lighting designer in an edition of Lighting Journal.
- [Adventure Bar, Clapham Junction](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/adventure-bar-clapham-junction/): Adventure Bar, Clapham Juntion is the third project that Nulty has completed for the fun-loving and quirky bar chain.
- [Light Up Your Summer](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-up-your-summer/): As the summer season draws everyone outside, City AM gets inspired to talk garden terraces and candlelit spaces with Paul Nulty.
- [Introducing James Turrell](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/introducing-james-turrell/): James Turrell, an American artist who works with the refractory medium of light, exploits how our mind processes images to reveal that at a fundamental level everything we see is an illusion.
- [Talan Towers, Forbes Magazine](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/talan-towers-forbes-magazine/): Forbes Kazakhstan recently featured Talan Towers, a high-end development located in the country’s capital, Astana.
- [County Mall](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/county-mall/): "Flock of Birds" is a grand, colourful and dynamic light art sculpture that flows through the impressive atrium space of Crawley’s refurbished County Mall retail centre.
- [2015 International Year of Light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/2015-international-year-of-light/): Honouring the International Year of Light, Retail Focus takes a look at what’s new in the lighting world and hears from Paul Nulty on how to keep at the forefront.
- [Back to basics](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-bulb-moments/): Nulty's lighting designer Karen Smart is an issue highlight in the latest edition of Darc magazine.
- [Social Interaction](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/social-interaction/): Imagine it’s summer and you get home early from work. Entering your day-lit living room, you can see people in the luscious green park outside.
- [May Design Series 2015](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/may-design-series-2015/): It’s that time of year again when May Design Series is upon us, the only event of its kind in the city designed for business.
- [Lighting Magazine](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-magazine/): Evolution is without a doubt the secret to survival. We often find ourselves afraid of change, scared of loosing our identity and recognition.
- [Institution of Lighting Professionals](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/institution-of-lighting-professionals/): Nulty has joined the Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) as one of the association's first Corporate Practice Members.
- [Architect's Choice Magazine](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architects-choice-magazine/): In Architect's Choice magazine Paul Nulty discusses the continually evolving role of the architectural lighting designer.
- [Light Art](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-art/): Light art is one of those things that always gets designers running excitedly in the same direction, but we are often left wondering if what we see is truly beautiful and innovative, or just a little bit too obvious and repetitive.
- [Past, Present and Strand](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/past-present-and-strand/): Nulty is the proud winner of the Philips Strand Lighting upcycling competition.
- [Counting down to the LDAs 2015](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/counting-down-to-the-lighting-design-awards-2015/): In the world of architectural lighting design it's nearly time for our equivalent of the Oscars (we like to think big!).
- [Coming down to earth](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/coming-down-to-earth/): Well, not quite earth, more like the 7th floor. Yes, that's right, Nulty has moved again.
- [Lighting in Retail](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/retailers-lighting-up-the-party/): It may be that retailers are becoming more imaginative with store design and concepts in order to create an "ambience" for customers, but Retail Gazette takes a look at another trend popping up: lighting.
- [#WeLoveLight](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/welovelight/): Here at Nulty it goes without saying that we're really excited that 2015 has been declared the International Year of Light (IYL 2015) by the United Nations under the high patronage of UNESCO.
- [Chilango, Camden](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/chilango-camden/): Our lighting design solution for Chilango, Camden supports a move in the burrito brand's signature interior design from back street Mexico to a shabby-chic, motel-style look.
- [Bar Magazine](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/bar-magazine/): Bar Magazine's Interiors Report - Inspiring Spaces - takes a look at bar design and the current trends, including heritage-inspired interiors and the latest lighting.
- [Design Restaurants](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/design-restaurants/): Impressed by Nulty's lighting design scheme at Spring, Somerset House, Design Restaurants touched base with Paul Nulty to find out more about our lighting concept for the newly opened restaurant.
- [OLEDs](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/oleds/): OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) have always been seen as much more than light sources – that is, as elegant design elements.
- [Interior Design Yearbook 2015](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/interior-design-yearbook-2015/): The Interior Design Yearbook is the ultimate sourcebook to the interior design industry and Paul Nulty has contributed to this year’s edition.
- [Light Graffiti](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-graffiti/): When the invite came round from the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) for an evening of light graffiti (or light art, if we're being posh) we most definitely wanted to be on the list.
- [Sleep 2014, London](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sleep-2014-london/): Nulty's lighting designer Karen Smart went to check out the latest and greatest in hospitality design at this year's Sleep event at the Business Design Centre, Islington.
- [Urdang Academy](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/urdang-academy/): Nulty has recently completed an architectural lighting design solution for Urdang, a leading performing arts academy in London, where the concept captures various forms of musical and dance teaching, while stimulating and energising students.
- [Remote Phosphor](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/remote-phosphor/): Here at Nulty, we've recently been seduced with the new technology of remote phosphor Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs).
- [SBID International Design Awards 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sbid-international-design-awards-2014-2/): Nulty's delighted to have received the Support Services Award for MATCHESFASHION.COM...
- [Scalextric Night 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/scalextric-night-2014/): As the saying goes "you've got to be in it to win it" and that's exactly what we did!
- [Retail Week Interiors Awards 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/retail-week-interiors-awards-2014/): Award season has commenced and Nulty is extremely privileged and excited to have started off with a win.
- [Lux Live 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lux-live-2014/): Paul Nulty's taking centre stage as a keynote speaker at this year's Lux Live.
- [IALD Chase the Dark 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/iald-chase-the-dark-2014/): Here at Nulty we take every opportunity to test our creativity beyond just architectural lighting design.
- [London Design Festival 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/london-design-festival-2014/): 100%design At Nulty we found 100%design 2014 to be the beating heart of this September’s design shows, with exceptional products and brands in each of the exhibition's six areas located within London's Earls Court.
- [Spring, Somerset House](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/spring-somerset-house/): Nulty has completed the architectural lighting design scheme for Spring restaurant, located in the New Wing of the iconic Somerset House, London.
- [Nobel Prize in Physics 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nobel-prize-in-physics/): On the 7th October 2014 the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura ‘for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) which has enabled bright and energy-saving light sources’.
- [Lux Awards 2014](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lux-awards-2014/): Wow, is all we can say here Nulty.
- [Paul Nulty in Retail Focus](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/retail-focus-from-the-outside-in/): Paul Nulty's put pen to paper and written an opinion piece for Retail Focus magazine highlighting the advantages and challenges of façade lighting.
- [Scala Cinema, Bangkok](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/scala-bangkok-design-week-lighting-installation/): “The Wall” was a collaboration project between Lighting Designers Thailand (LDT) and over 100 specialists in relating fields, which involved a temporary lighting installation for the Scala Cinema, Bangkok.
- [Lighting in Retail Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-in-retail-design/): How does retail lighting differentiate from other commercial lighting? What lighting layers work best for retailers and why?
- [Talking to Strangers](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/talking-to-strangers-beginners-guide/): Talking to strangers can be weird, especially for the English folk.
- [Selfridges Eyewear](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/selfridges-eyewear-opticals-london-press/): Set within an accessories hall like no other, Selfridges optical department is the place to go for some fancy frames.
- [Lighting: balancing possibility with need](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-balancing-possibility-with-need/): Intuitive design never goes out of fashion.
- [Automotive Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/automotive-car-design-lighting/): As a self-professed auto enthusiast, one of my favourite memories growing up was meeting Godzilla, Nissan’s R34 GT-R.
- [The Sunday Times](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-sunday-times-get-the-lighting-right/): The Sunday Times has sought tips from design experts on how to create a retreat in your living space during the dark winter months.
- [Dubai Design Week 2018](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-design-week-2018-highlights/): Monday the 12 November marked the opening of Dubai Design Week.
- [Making Retail Relevant](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/making-retail-relevant-decorative-lighting-design/): The collapse of well-known retailers is fresh in our minds and this has sparked debate across the industry about the business model retailers are using and how department stores, concessions and high-street shops can stay relevant.
- [Guardians of the Galaxy](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/guardians-galaxy-airport-lighting-design-technology/): Recently while in Oman’s newly opened Muscat International Airport, my eyes were naturally drawn to the lighting of this large-scale project.
- [Seeing spots in Singapore](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/seeing-spots-singapore-yayoi-kusama-teamlab/): When I ask people about lighting (who don’t work in the industry), the majority think that it’s just an artificial construct that makes spaces or buildings become visible to the user.
- ["Design to Shape Light" Exhibition](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/design-shape-light-photography-exhibition-paul-nulty/): Tonight sees the launch of a photography exhibition based on the theme "Design to Shape Light" that lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen asked Paul Nulty to curate.
- [Mobilising Modernity](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/mobilising-modernity-sun-built-form-lighting-design/): My first post on the subject of humankind’s evolving relationship with the Sun focused on the ancients’ reverent treatment of our star and its exalted position within architecture in Antiquity.
- [Haz Restaurant](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/haz-restaurant-architectural-lighting-design-press/): The refurbishment of Haz has given the popular Turkish restaurant a rich and bold visual identity.
- [September in the City](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/september-in-the-city-london-design-festival/): There's nowhere I'd rather be right now than in London. September in this wonderful city is proving to be a design lover's dream.
- [Reviving Retail](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/reviving-retail-stores-independent-lighting-designers/): Consumers continually want more for their money, and I’m not just talking about bigger and better products. What they want is an entire shopping experience.
- [Talks on Tour](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-designer-talks-panel-discussions-cpd-nulty/): It's no understatement to say that we have a serious passion for anything to do with lighting design. When we’re not working with light, we’re talking about it.
- [Blue Light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/blue-light-considerations-lighting-design/): Blue light has been a hot topic in the world of lighting for quite a while and today the conversation is popping up everywhere, from mainstream media to mobile app development.
- [Tips for garden lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/tips-for-garden-lighting-design-paul-nulty/): When an outdoor area is comfortable and inviting it's far more likely to be used and enjoyed.
- [L'Occitane, Arc Magazine](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/loccitane-london-flagship-lighting-design-press/): L'Occitane's new Regent Street store is a pure delight that gives customers an enchanting retail experience, which is immersive, luxurious and sensory.
- [Animating Antiquity](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/animating-antiquity-light-sun-built-form/): On the lucky days that I peer up at the sky and see a near perfect sphere of swirling plasma smiling down at me, I feel grateful to be a part of our weird and wonderful world.
- [A good night's sleep](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/good-nights-sleep-hotel-lighting-design/): During this year's Clerkenwell Design Week we hosted a roundtable about one thing we all crave: a good night's sleep.
- [Paul Nulty's well-lit world](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/paul-nultys-well-lit-world-architectural-digest/): What do we do here at Nulty?
- [Thinking Sideways](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/thinking-sideways-lighting-journal-daniel-blaker/): At Nulty there’s no one better to talk about creativity than Daniel Blaker - our Creative Director.
- [Sound, Light & the Immersive Experience](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sound-light-the-immersive-experience/): As lighting designers our job is to create, enhance or manipulate an experience.
- [Milan Design Week 2018](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/milan-design-week-2018-lighting-designers-experience/): A design lover wouldn’t miss the charming Milan, the undisputed Italian capital of design, during the busiest and trendiest time of the year, outside of fashion week (obviously!).
- [Defining light of hospitality](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/defining-light-of-hospitality-lighting-design/): Each and every space we visit or pass through evokes some degree of emotional reaction, either consciously or sub-consciously.
- [Colourful Dream](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/colourful-dream-dubai-garden-glow/): It’d be most child’s dream to ride a seven-coloured rainbow or a fluffy white cloud.
- [Paul Nulty in Perspective Magazine, IIDA](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/perspective-magazine-iida-lighting-designer-paul-nulty/): Spring is here, which means the 2018 first edition of Perspective is out - an IIDA award-winning design journal.
- [The Art of Cinematography](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-art-of-cinematography-lighting/): A favourite activity of mine during late February is watching a marathon of all the Oscar-nominated movies, and then in March, I religiously watch the ceremony itself.
- [Light + Building 2018](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-building-2018/): From LED chips and lenses to luminaires and controls (and everything in-between), Light + Building has been upon us and the Nulty team – from London and Dubai – were right in the thick of it, discovering all things new and exciting in the lighting world.
- [How to be Creative](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-be-creative-lighting-design/): The expression “Thinking Sideways” was coined by a group of leading strategists and logistical thinkers during the Second World War, whose chief aim was to create a series of elaborate counter intelligence “plans-within-plans” aiming to provide as much cover for Operation Bodyguard, the Normandy D-Day landing strike, 6 June 1944, as possible.
- [Books for budding Lighting Designers](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/books-for-budding-lighting-designers/): Who doesn’t love a good book? We’re definitely testament to this at Nulty – our shelves are packed to the rafters with a whole host of reads.
- [The Ritz-Carlton, Astana](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/ritz-carlton-astana-lighting-design-press/): Darc magazine's March / April issue is dedicated to the "women of light".
- [Retail Environments & Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-design-retail-environments-brand-emotion/): A few years ago Nulty conducted an independent study on how lighting design can create an emotional connection between a user and retail environments.
- [Beyond Functional Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/beyond-functional-lighting-design-evoking-emotion/): Last year I had the opportunity to lecture at a conference called “Beyond functional lighting: dialogues about lighting” in Barcelona, hosted by the Associació d'Enginyers de Catalunya.
- [Leake Street Arches](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/leake-street-graffiti-lighting-design-press/): Leake Street is very close to our heart.
- [London Lumiere 2018](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/london-lumiere-2018-light-art-installations/): London’s dark winter nights shine brighter thanks to Lumiere – the four-day light festival that transforms one of Europe’s busiest cities into pedestrian-only zones to host a spectacular outdoor light art gallery.
- [ING Bank Interior Lighting Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/interior-lighting-design-ing-bank-hq-arc-press/): Our interior lighting design for the UK headquarters of ING Bank, in the City of London, considers the bank's heritage with its drive for innovation, plus fine art and café culture.
- [Lighting Design in Context](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architectural-lighting-design-context-environments/): Off the top of your head, you can probably think of a dozen buildings that are recognisable just from the silhouette.
- [Busy vs Too Busy](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/busy-vs-too-busy-designers-planning-ahead/): The business of design fascinates me.
- [Amy Rossetti joins our team](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/amy-rossetti-lighting-designer-dubai-middle-east/): We've recently expanded our team in the Middle East with the appointment of Amy Rossetti as Associate.
- [Paul Nulty, Architect@Work](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architect-at-work-lighting-designer-paul-nulty/): Next week is ARCHITECT@WORK (London Olympia, 24-25 January), where Arc magazine editor Matt Waring will chair a special presentation by Paul Nulty on "What architects should know about lighting".
- [Retail Theatre](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/retail-theatre-architectural-lighting-design/): In the new world of omni-channel shopping the role of “retail theatre” has never been stronger.
- [Lighting a Vow](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/wedding-lighting-thought-process-tips-advice/): Wedmin has pretty much taken over my free time this past year (top tip: if you can, get a wedding planner!)
- [Cast Light Over 2017](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-designers-cast-light-over-2017/): As we hurl towards 2018, we thought it was only right to look back at 2017, and re-visit some of Nulty’s highLIGHTS, things that have brightened up our year, and also hopefully yours.
- [Paul Nulty talks to DesignCurial](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/paul-nulty-designcurial-interview-lighting-design/): Lighting design is a subject that Paul Nulty could talk about all day.
- [Designing by Code](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/designing-by-code-software-future-architecture-lighting/): There are countless articles on how famous architects and artists started their early design development.
- [Cocktail-party ambience](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/cocktail-party-ambience-home-lighting-telegraph/): The Daily Telegraph's Style & Features section can help you on your way to create a charming cocktail corner by sprucing up your interior with elegant chairs, bar carts, side tables and stylish kits to deliver the drinks.
- [Lighting tips for your home](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-tips-for-your-home-interior-design/): Lighting is key to creating the right ambience in your home, but it doesn’t mean that you have to spend a fortune on designer light fittings.
- [PLDC 2017, Paris](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/professional-lighting-design-convention-pldc-2017/): This year's Paris-based PLDC presented yet another veritable feast of lectures, speeches and, of course, wine.
- [Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/pink-floyd-their-mortal-remains-exhibition/): How many exhibitions have been procured in London, you ask? I would say thousands – hundreds of thousands!
- [Fascinated by Fireworks](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/fascinated-by-fireworks/): The weekend is upon us and there’s one thing that will definitely be on the agenda here in London and across Great Britain: ooos and ahhs.
- [Lighting Designers, London](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architectural-lighting-designers-jobs-london/): We're looking for intermediate and junior lighting designers to join our London studio and help develop our portfolio of projects.
- [Creative Director & Designers, Dubai](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/creative-director-designers-dubai-lighting-design-studio/): Creative Director Do you fancy a new challenge and the chance to flaunt your creative genius?
- [Winner, Light Middle East Awards 2017](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/winner-light-middle-east-awards-2017-retail-lighting/): The Light Middle East Awards 2017 took place this month and we were there hoping for a win, as two of our lighting design projects had been shortlisted in the “Retail Lighting Project of the Year” category: Bloomingsdale’s Kuwait and Magrabi Optical.
- [News from Dubai](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-designers-nulty-dubai-news-team-update/): The start of next year will mark the second birthday of our studio here in Dubai.
- [Ready Steady Light, Middle East](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/ready-steady-light-middle-east-competition-winners/): Last year saw the launch of Ready Steady Light in Light Middle East’s three-day event.
- [Beirut office in the Press](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/beirut-office-architectural-lighting-designers-consultancy/): Hot on the heels of our launch in Dubai last year, we've recently established a new architectural lighting design studio in Beirut, Lebanon, highlighting our commitment to the region and allowing us to help with the growing needs of design projects.
- [Technology, Saving Energy & Wellbeing](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-technology-saving-energy-wellbeing/): Lighting design is essentially a fine balancing act between technology and creativity.
- [Lighting Designers & Architects](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-designers-architects-working-together/): Paul Nulty has the last word in September's edition of Architect's Choice magazine, where he talks about the important relationship between lighting designers and architects.
- [The Importance of Darkness in Lighting Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-importance-of-darkness-in-lighting-design/): You might question why someone who spends most days playing with and obsessing over...
- [The Ned](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-ned-architectural-lighting-design-press/): Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the early 1920s, 27 Poultry in the City of London has been through a major transformation - from grand banking HQ to luxury hotel and members' club.
- [Hotels & Lighting Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/hotels-evolving-environment-architectural-lighting-design/): The hospitality sector is a favourite place for the lighting designer to work within.
- [Beirut office launches](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/beirut-office-architectural-lighting-designers/): We're extremely happy to announce the launch of our Beirut office, our third after Dubai (established in 2016) and the London HQ (established in 2011).
- [Musicals, Theatre & Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-theatre-musical-stage-production/): Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to watch musical or theatrical shows. I mean, who wouldn’t – they always look so magical.
- [Treehotel, Sweden](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/treehotel-sweden/): When searching the Internet for interesting design ideas or inspiring mood images you may have come across a photo of a floating mirror cube in the midst of a forest.
- [Want to join our practice?](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architectural-lighting-designer-jobs/): Our architectural lighting design practice is expanding. That means we’re on the hunt for new designers for what's a really exciting opportunity.
- [Putting the 'Rep' in Reputation](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sales-representatives-lighting-designers/): Let’s be honest, a lighting designer is little without their tools.
- [Lighting as a Service](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-as-a-service-laas/): Radio Rentals. Remember them?
- [Landscape lighting design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/landscape-lighting-design-outdoor-ambience-hierarchy/): In his guest blog post, John Wyer (landscape designer and friend of Nulty's) effuses about the dynamism of a landscape – not just through the changing seasons, but also with the passage of daylight.
- [Light, time & landscape](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-time-landscape-garden-designers/): As owner and co-founder of Bowles & Wyer, landscape designer John Wyer eats, drinks and sleeps good design and its delivery.
- [The quality of light & technology](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/quality-light-technology-architectural-lighting-design/): When it comes to architectural lighting design my ethos is less about fixtures and fittings, and pretty much everything to do with creating the right sort of atmosphere.
- [Lighting Design Process](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architectural-lighting-design-process-europe-uae/): It’s just over a year now since Nulty opened up its second lighting design consultancy in Dubai – to service the UAE and wider market.
- [Ahmed Saliem Q&A](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/ahmed-saliem-projects-director-lighting-design-dubai/): Having worked with Ahmed in a previous life, I knew that as soon as our Dubai office had grown to a point where I needed a wingman, he was the person to call.
- [Symphony of Light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/symphony-light-dubai-opera-bbc-proms/): As the working week nears to an end, I always take a look at what’s happening over the weekend to see if there’s anything new going on.
- [Keflavik Airport](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/keflavik-airport-iceland-ceiling-light-installation-press/): When visiting Iceland it's pretty much guaranteed that people will be wowed by the amazing natural wonders.
- [Lighting for the Perfect Selfie](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-get-the-perfect-selfie-lighting-tips/): Selfies are part and parcel of today’s world – a real statement of the times we’re in.
- [Charlotte Tilbury](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/charlotte-tilbury-lighting-design-scheme-press/): Our Charlotte Tilbury lighting scheme was designed to give customers a flawless brand experience.
- [We’re collaborating at CDW](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-designer-collaboration-clerkenwell-design-week/): Clerkenwell Design Week is on the approach and we’re chuffed to announce that this year we’ll be collaborating with British furniture designers and makers, Michael Northcroft.
- [Chiaroscuro – the art of light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/chiaroscuro-art-light-shade-design-inspiration/): The exhibition “Beyond Caravaggio” finished up at the National Gallery last month, but before it did I made an effort to go along and see it.
- [Paul Nulty talks to Middle East Consultant](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-consultancy-design-middle-east-uae-dubai/): This month Middle East Consultant magazine puts the spotlight on lighting consultancy and design.
- [La La Land](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/la-la-land-through-lighting-designer-eyes/): The “movies” – a billion dollar business. Every year you can watch hundreds of them – all kinds of genres, addressed to various audiences.
- [Winter Lights](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/winter-lights-canary-wharf-2017-london/): London's Canary Wharf is yet again full of amazing light installations and interactive art as part of its festival of Winter Lights.
- [Light Play at Meet d3](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-play-dubai-design-district-meet-d3/): “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton This holds true today what with the impact technology has on art.
- [Mark Vowles talks to Middle East Consultant](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architectural-lighting-design-industry-middle-east/): It's lighting that has the last word in Middle East Consultant's December issue.
- [Lighting design - the year ahead](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-design-the-year-ahead-2017/): Naturally, at this time of the year, we’re starting to wind down and enjoy the odd tipple of mulled wine and spending quality time with our loved ones.
- [Saadiyat Cultural District](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/saadiyat-cultural-district-abu-dhabi-lighting-design/): Two years, discussions on every aspect of lighting from "light poverty" to "chiaroscuro" and many frantic submissions later, my Master’s programme in Architectural Lighting Design at Hochschule Wismar University finally came down to my dissertation paper.
- [Lighting Design Q&A](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architectural-lighting-design-questions-answers/): With years of experience under his belt, Paul Nulty knows the field of architectural lighting design inside and out.
- [Experiencing the Nordic Light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/experiencing-nordic-light-nordiska-musee/): A few weeks ago, during my visit to Sweden's capital, I was lucky enough to be invited to the opening day of the Nordic Light exhibition in Nordiska Museet.
- [LewesLight, Festival of Light 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lewes-light-festival-of-light-2016/): LewesLight is exactly the sort of event we love: it’s community-based and celebrates the potential of light and lighting to reveal and reinforce the town’s identity.
- [Public realm lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/public-realm-lighting-architects-journal/): Why do placemakers stop placemaking after the sun goes down? This is the question Paul Nulty considers in a column for the AJ Specification.
- [Interior Design Yearbook 2017](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/interior-design-yearbook-2017-lighting-trends/): What lighting trends are in store for 2017? We've got the answers covered thanks to our Founder and lighting expert, Paul Nulty.
- [Restaurant lighting design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/restaurant-lighting-design-the-caterer/): Is a restaurant's success based on more than just good food? Absolutely! In a recent article "How to...
- [Colour Tripping - Darc Awards 2016](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/colour-tripping-darc-awards-2016/): Finally, the event we were all waiting for. A chance for us to take on something physical – to “build” like we did in our university days.
- [Party Time!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/party-time-birthday-nulty-bespoke-launch-riba/): Last Thursday evening we descended on 66 Portland Place – the fabulous home of RIBA – to celebrate our fifth birthday and to make a special announcement: the launch of Nulty Bespoke.
- [Brexit & Lighting Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/brexit-eu-referendum-lighting-design/): We’ve all been consumed by the economic and political fallout from the EU referendum.
- [Selfridges Body Studio](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/selfridges-body-studio/): Selfridges Body Studio is an exciting new concept for the London department store.
- [Mark Vowles featured in Middle East Consultant](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/illuminating-spaces-lighting-technology-design-middle-east/): The evolution of lighting design and where lighting technology's heading is an interesting topic (we think so, at least).
- [Issues with Light Output Ratio](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/issues-with-light-output-ratio/): It's rare as designers that we talk about things going wrong (the reason why is a whole other debate).
- [Plant Life](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/plant-life-lighting-design-interior-greenery/): As anyone who’s ever bought a house plant can confirm, keeping our green-leafed friends alive and happy indoors is surprisingly tricky.
- [A milestone year for Nulty](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/2021-year-in-review-key-moments/): 2021 was an important year for us all at Nulty as we celebrated our tenth birthday.
- [Interior Design Yearbook 2022](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/interior-design-yearbook-2022-ellie-coombs/): In the new edition of the Interior Design Yearbook, Ellie Coombs discusses how collaboration across the whole lighting industry is so fundamental to the circular economy.
- [Dubai Design Week 2021](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-design-week-2021-highlights/): Dubai is buzzing.
- [Meet our Bangkok Lighting Design Team](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/meet-our-bangkok-lighting-design-team/): Working out of our Bangkok lighting design studio we have a talented team of designers who allow us to deliver the best level of service to our clients.
- [Projects on the Bangkok drawing board](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-design-projects-nulty-bangkok-drawing-board/): Our Nulty Bangkok studio is working on a number of exciting projects around the world that demonstrate the breadth and scale of the team’s lighting design expertise.
- [Spotlight on Bangkok](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/bangkok-thailand-spotlight-paul-nulty-mark-vowles/): Our Founder Paul Nulty and Managing Partner Mark Vowles outline Nulty’s approach to lighting design and their plans for the Bangkok studio.
- [Browns Brook Street](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/browns-brook-street-lighting-solution-press/): Back in 2019, we were commissioned by high-end fashion retailer Browns to develop a lighting solution for its new flagship store at 39 Brook Street, Mayfair – an amazing building with Grade II* listed status.
- [United in Sustainable Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sustainable-design-world-architecture-day-world-habitat-day-climate-change/): Today being World Architecture Day and World Habitat Day is another stark reminder that we must start and take serious action to address climate change.
- [Light for Lebanon](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-for-lebanon/): This Thursday, 16 September, a special online fundraising event will take place in support of “Light for Lebanon”.
- [Paul Nulty talks to Arc about Nulty turning 10](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/paul-nulty-talks-to-arc-magazine-about-nulty-turning-10/): In the latest issue of arc magazine, editor Matt Waring sat down with Paul Nulty to chat about our practice turning 10.
- [Interior styling by Lucy Gough](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/interior-styling-by-lucy-gough/): Lucy Gough is an Australian-born, London-based Interior Stylist who has spent the last ten years styling for the most highly coveted interiors magazines in the UK as well as high street brands like John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, Dulux, Crown Paint and Heal’s to name a few.
- [Why use a lighting designer?](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/why-use-a-lighting-designer-paul-nulty/): The role of an independent lighting designer defies definition.
- [Designer Opinions](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/designer-opinions-designerati-paul-nulty/): Designerati's exclusive series of interviews - Designer Opinions - features established designers, architects and design professionals.
- [A Decade of Lighting Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/a-decade-of-lighting-design-projects-showreel/): From prime residential developments and hip new bars to spectacular swimming pools, designer retail stores and pop-up exhibitions, we've had the pleasure of working on some fantastic lighting design projects.
- [Top 10 Lighting Design Projects](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nultys-top-10-lighting-design-projects-tenth-anniversary/): To mark our 10th birthday, we've picked out ten lighting design projects from our portfolio that are particularly special.
- [10 years of Nulty](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/10-years-of-nulty-memories-milestones-projects-people/): This month is Nulty’s tenth birthday.
- [Nulty 10 Year Timeline](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-10-year-timeline-video/): In celebration of our 10th birthday we roll back the years...
- [Happy Birthday Nulty!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/happy-birthday-nulty-10-years-of-bright-ideas/): Happy Birthday to us from our wonderful team!
- [Hotels on the Nulty drawing board](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/hotel-lighting-design-nulty-drawing-board/): We're working on a number of hotel lighting projects at the moment, five of which I'm delighted to share below.
- [Lighting in the hospitality sector post Covid](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-in-the-hospitality-sector-post-covid-paul-nulty/): The hospitality sector has been through the mill and as we start to emerge from the pandemic the industry is faced with real change.
- [How to light your home - Thai Edition](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-light-your-home-thai-edition-the-dark-art-of-light-series/): The Dark Art of Light is an online series created by Nulty that outlines the key principles of lighting design when approaching a residential project.
- [Environmental Impact](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/environmental-impact-lighting-industry-design-manufacturing/): The life of a lighting designer is a double-edged sword. On the one hand it’s our job to improve the quality of spaces for people.
- [Choose To Challenge](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/choose-to-challenge-international-womens-day-2021/): In the midst of a perpetual lockdown, in the depths of cabin fever whilst we observed the one-year anniversary of the day we were ordered to “work from home for two or three weeks”, it’s been hard to keep track of the passing of time.
- [Bespoke design in luxury projects](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/hotel-designs-roundtable-bespoke-design-luxury-projects/): A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion exploring the possibilities of bespoke design in luxury projects.
- [A new way of thinking](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/erin-slaviero-commercial-interior-design-magazine-new-perspective/): For this month’s female-focused edition of Commercial Interior Design magazine, I was given the opportunity to write an article about the chaos of 2020 and how 2021 could be seen in a new perspective.
- [Paul Nulty's Leadership Lessons](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/paul-nulty-authority-magazine-how-to-take-your-company-from-good-to-great/): Brand value, important hires, sharing knowledge and embracing mistakes are just some of the things Paul Nulty talks about in a feature interview with Authority Magazine.
- [Chelsea Barracks](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/chelsea-barracks-lighting-journal/): London's world-class development Chelsea Barracks is in the spotlight in Lighting Journal.
- [Q&A with Gary Thornton](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-qa-with-gary-thornton/): Having recently joined the team as an Associate Lighting Designer, we decided to pick Gary’s brain about the world of lighting.
- [Bangkok Post features "Learn to Light"](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/bangkok-post-features-learn-to-light-worksheets/): We're really happy to see that our educational initiative Learn to Light has been featured in the Bangkok Post.
- [We're hiring a BDM in Dubai](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/hiring-bdm-business-development-manager-dubai/): We’re on the hunt for a highly motivated, confident and proactive Business Development Manager to join our fast-paced and ambitious architectural lighting design practice in Dubai.
- [Gary Thornton joins our team](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/gary-thornton-associate-lighting-designer-joins-nulty/): We're really pleased to ring in 2021 with the appointment of Gary Thornton to our London team as Associate Lighting Designer.
- [Light-based learning sheets for Thai children](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/learn-to-light-educational-worksheets-thai-children/): Learn to Light is an educational resource that Nulty developed to teach children about light through fun activities.
- [Lighting Masterclass Series](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-masterclass-series-interior-designers-press/): Our recently launched masterclass series - The Dark Art of Light - provides expert tips on how to light a home.
- [Favourite five from 2020](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/favourite-five-nulty-highlights-2020/): Focusing on the bright side of 2020, we've handpicked five of our favourite highlights from the past year.
- [Casting Light Over 2020](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/paul-nulty-casting-light-over-2020/): Although it’s been a challenging year for everyone, we're feeling optimistic about the future.
- [Selfridges Buying & Merchandising Offices](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/selfridges-buying-merchandising-offices-lighting-design-press/): A modern infusion of Brutalist architecture, comfort and colour, the lighting solution for Selfridges Buying and Merchandising offices evokes a stylish space laden with illuminated surfaces.
- [How to light your garden](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-light-your-garden-the-dark-art-of-light-series/): The Dark Art of Light series is designed to provide inspiration and guidance for the interior design community, and anyone looking to broaden their understanding about residential lighting.
- [How to light your bedroom](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-light-your-bedroom-the-dark-art-of-light-series/): The Dark Art of Light series is designed to provide inspiration and guidance for the interior design community, and anyone looking to broaden their understanding about residential lighting.
- [We’re recruiting a Business Development Manager ](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/were-recruiting-a-business-development-manager/): We’re on the search for a highly motivated, confident and proactive Business Development Manager to join our ambitious and fast-paced architectural lighting design practice in Waterloo, London.
- [How to light your bathroom](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-light-your-bathroom-the-dark-art-of-light-series/): The Dark Art of Light series is designed to provide inspiration and guidance for the interior design community, and anyone looking to broaden their understanding about residential lighting.
- [How to light your living room](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-light-your-living-room-the-dark-art-of-light-series/): The Dark Art of Light series is designed to provide inspiration and guidance for the interior design community, and anyone looking to broaden their understanding about residential lighting.
- [How to light your kitchen](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-light-your-kitchen-the-dark-art-of-light-series/): The Dark Art of Light series is designed to provide inspiration and guidance for the interior design community, and anyone looking to broaden their understanding about residential lighting.
- [How to light your home](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-to-light-your-home-the-dark-art-of-light-series/): We’ve created a virtual masterclass series that outlines the fundamental principles of lighting design when approaching a residential project.
- [Dubai Design Week 2020](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-design-week-2020/): I recently returned to work in our Dubai studio after being on maternity leave – I left in February and came back to a completely new way of working.
- [Bathroom Lighting in Homes & Gardens](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/homes-gardens-bathroom-lighting-trends/): When applied with precision, bathroom lighting can help people destress at the end of the day and feel energised the next morning; it can complement an interior scheme, highlighting finishes and accentuating features.
- [Hospitality Lighting Design Trends, 2020 Report](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/hospitality-lighting-design-trends-2020-report/): We’ve compiled a Hospitality Lighting Design Report that outlines the trends and research shaping the way we design with light.
- [We're hiring Lighting Designers!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-designer-jobs-london-uk/): We're on the search for eager Junior and Intermediate Lighting Designers to join our studio in London and help develop our diverse portfolio of projects.
- [Lights in Alingsås](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lights-in-alingsas-diary-of-a-workshop-lead/): A lot has happened since last year’s Lights in Alingsås, so it was great to hear that the event would take place this year (it’s on now until 1 November), albeit on a slightly different and smaller scale.
- [World Architecture Day](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/world-architecture-day-toward-a-better-urban-future/): In the run up to World Architecture Day, we asked some of our team to share an initiative they admire or feel passionate about – something that identifies with this year’s message about how urban planning, architecture and design can lead us all “Toward a better urban future”.
- [What is Colour Rendering?](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/what-is-colour-rendering-index-cri-lighting/): What is Colour Rendering?
- [What is Colour Temperature?](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/what-is-correlated-colour-temperature-cct-lighting/): What is Colour Temperature?
- [What's the future for the office?](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/what-is-the-future-for-the-office-fx-nulty/): Don’t miss "The Office Reboot" feature in the latest edition of FX Magazine.
- [Light-based Learning Sheets for Children - Part 2](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-based-stem-learning-sheets-for-children/): Today we’re introducing the second instalment of our Learn to Light initiative – an educational resource that teaches children about light through enjoyable activities.
- [The Art of Drawing Light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-art-of-drawing-light-lighting-journal-feature/): Drawing light can go a long way when it comes to understanding illumination and indeed spatial composition - something lighting designers Seraphina Gogate and Sophie O’Rourke are intrigued by.
- [2020 Lighting Design Report](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/2020-lighting-design-report-research-trends/): We’ve put together a 2020 Lighting Design Report that focuses on the workplace and summarises the research and trends shaping the way we design with light.
- [Question Everything](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-design-in-the-era-of-fake-news/): It’s no stretch to say that we live in a world full of disinformation. But, somehow, it would be impossible if we didn’t.
- [The Future of Workplace Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-future-of-workplace-design-nulty-fx-magazine/): In partnership with FX magazine, we’ve brought together a panel of experts to debate the impact of Covid-19 on the workplace and reflect on whether radical changes will need to be made to the way we conceive and design office spaces.
- [Daniel Blaker in Lightecture Magazine](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/daniel-blaker-lightecture-creative-lighting-design/): In the new edition of Lightecture magazine, Daniel Blaker talks about creative lighting design and the importance of striking the right balance between need and possibility.
- [Herondale Avenue, London](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/herondale-avenue-residential-lighting-design-press/): We're delighted to see this fabulous home on Herondale Avenue, southwest London, featured in The Times' renowned Bricks & Mortar supplement.
- ['Light Up Your Lockdown' Winners!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-up-your-lockdown-photography-competition-winners/): Firstly, thank you to everyone who entered our Light Up Your Lockdown photography competition.
- [Light-Based Learning Sheets for Children - Part 1](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-based-learning-sheets-for-children/): Today we’re launching Learn to Light, an educational resource that teaches children about light through fun activities that can be carried out at home.
- [Confessions of a Lighting Designer](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/confessions-of-a-lighting-designer-dubai/): Living in Dubai for three years whilst working as a lighting designer has taught me many things, including how lighting can influence a city in more ways than one.
- ['Light Up Your Lockdown' Photography Competition](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-up-your-lockdown-photography-competition/): Light has often been cited as a symbol of hope with the power to unify humanity.
- [“Light: An Instrument of Hope” by Paul Nulty](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-an-instrument-of-hope-paul-nulty-design-curial/): Paul Nulty shares his thoughts with DesignCurial on light and how, in tough times, it’s used as a tool to create powerful messages and bring us together.
- [International Dark Sky Week, 19-26 April](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/international-dark-sky-week-2020/): This Sunday, 19 April, sees the start of International Dark Sky Week 2020.
- [A guide to lighting your home office](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/a-straightforward-guide-to-lighting-your-home-office/): With many of us having found ourselves unexpectedly working from home and the focus so far having been on stockpiling ridiculous amounts of toilet roll and pasta, there’s been little time to consider our lighting set-up.
- [The Light Lunch Series: a weekly webinar](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-light-lunch-series-webinars-lighting-design/): During this time while we’re all getting used to working from home we want to engage and inspire you with our passion for light.
- [Facts you may not know about daylight saving](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/facts-about-daylight-saving-circadian-rhythm-lighting/): Yesterday we said hello to British Summer Time, when, at 1am, our clocks went forward by an hour.
- [The Philosophy of Paul Nulty](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-philosophy-of-paul-nulty-conversation-stir/)
- [Samsung King's Cross](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/samsung-kx-kings-cross-lighting-arc-magazine/): From working to a clear architectural blueprint and respecting an architectural legacy, to overcoming structural challenges and embracing an innovative retail concept, this project at Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross, was unique in every way.
- [How lighting can be used to aid sleep](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/how-lighting-can-be-used-to-aid-sleep-clad-news/): In a recent chat with CLAD news, Emilio Hernandez discussed why Nulty is developing a manifesto for sleep, and how helping people get a restful night could well be up there on our list of accomplishments.
- [Balancing Innovation & Creation](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/balancing-innovation-creation-lighting-designers/): As designers, we look at the art and the science of any given object, space and scenario, and we attempt to balance both aesthetic and technicality in the most seamless way we can.
- [Conversations with Daniel Blaker](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/conversations-with-daniel-blaker-creative-director/): “Conversations” is a series of video documentaries created by Vibia where international designers get to “share their ideas on light, design and space”.
- [RIBA features Newnham lighting scheme](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/riba-features-newnham-college-lighting-design/): “They love the light. I think people walk through the door and feel comfortable.
- [Fidelity International](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/fidelity-international-london-press/): OnOffice has featured our WELL certified lighting scheme for Fidelity International's new office space on Cannon Street, London.
- [World Architecture Festival 2019](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/world-architecture-festival-waf-2019-lighting-design/): At the beginning of December, I packed my bags, for a somewhat chillier climate, and headed to Amsterdam for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) – an annual three-day event where international architects present their schemes to a panel of three judges (other architects), in a bid to win their category.
- [PLDC 2019](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/professional-lighting-design-convention-pldc-2019-rotterdam-highlights/): The city of Rotterdam was founded in the 13th century when a dam was built across the river Rotte.
- [Dubai Design Week 2019](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-design-week-2019-highlights/): Dubai Design Week 2019 kicked off with some unexpected weather.
- [Shining a light on hotel design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-design-week-2019-hotel-hospitality-lighting-design/): We’re putting hotel lighting at the top of the agenda at Dubai Design Week 2019, collaborating with Earth Hotels, Something Design House and Debbas Lighting to create a bespoke lighting scheme for the Earth Hotels concept at Downtown Dubai.
- [Bangkok Launch](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-designers-bangkok-thailand-studio-launch/): We’re extremely excited to announce a new period of expansion here at Nulty with the launch of a Bangkok lighting design studio.
- [Hello Bangkok!](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/architectural-lighting-design-consultants-bangkok/): To coincide with the launch of our Bangkok studio, Director Spencer Baxter outlines the thinking behind Nulty’s decision to open a studio in the Thai capital and gives us an insight into the Bangkok design scene and developments in the lighting design sector.
- [Drawing Light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/drawing-light-shade-shadow/): Drawing light is a bit like drawing time.
- [LDF 2019 Highlights](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/london-design-festival-ldf-2019-highlights/): The 17th edition of London Design Festival drew upon talent from all across the world to celebrate future trends and innovation.
- [A Year in Review](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/a-year-in-review-sarah-crooks/): It’s been a strange year.
- [Hard Rock Hotel London](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/hard-rock-hotel-london-lighting-design-press/): Our lighting design scheme for the new Hard Rock Hotel in Marble Arch, London has been featured in the latest edition of arc magazine.
- [Hospitality Interiors Q&A](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/hospitality-interiors-magazine-ellie-coombs/): Giving back, not knowing lighting design was an actual job, future-proofing designs and working with passionate clients are just some of the things Ellie Coombs, our Managing Director, talks to Hospitality Interiors about.
- [Pursuit of Endlessness](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/pursuit-endlessness-frederick-kiesler-endless-house/): Within this blog post I will share some of my thoughts and reflections on the theory of ‘Endless Space’ by Frederick Kiesler, which was most notably explored through his famed work the 'Endless House’.
- [Newnham College wins RIBA National Award](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/newnham-college-wins-riba-national-award/): Last week Walters & Cohen Architects were the proud recipients of a RIBA National Award for the Dorothy Garrod Building at Newnham College, Cambridge.
- [Keeping Up Appearances](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/keeping-up-appearances-business-development/): Talking to people can be exhausting, especially when combined with travel, late nights and the pressure of making good impressions.
- [Newnham College, Cambridge](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/newnham-college-university-cambridge-lighting-design-press/): Working closely with Walters & Cohen Architects and Ab Rogers Design we made sure the lighting for the new Dorothy Garrod Building at Newnham College was spot on.
- [Good in Bed](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/good-in-bed-sleep-aids-apps-technology-health-light/): How many times has the first thing you’ve said to someone in a day been “I’m so tired”?
- [Artificial light in nighttime photography](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/artificial-light-night-time-photography/): Nighttime photography is becoming increasingly popular, with millions of people gaining access to digital cameras and platforms to share their snaps on.
- [VIVI Restaurant & Bar](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/vivi-restaurant-bar-centre-point-lighting-design-press/): This all-day dining destination's architectural lighting scheme uses layers of illumination to transform the expansive space from bright and airy in the day, to intimate and sophisticated at night.
- [An interview with Liz West](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/interview-with-artist-liz-west/): As part of my ongoing research on colour theory, I talk with artist Liz West about ways of seeing and creating, simplicity and distraction, and the generation of ideas.
- [Sleep Talking at CDW 2019](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/clerkenwell-design-week-2019-lighting-designers-cpd/): We all crave a good night’s sleep. And, when it comes to hotels, savvy operators want to give their guests exactly that.
- [MIPIM Virgin](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/mipim-virgin-business-development-basics-tips/): So how was MIPIM, you ask? “Sorry, kid.
- [Lighting Design for Retail Spaces](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/fx-magazine-lighting-design-retail-spaces-paul-nulty/): In the March edition of FX magazine Paul Nulty put pen to paper to discuss retail lighting - something he's passionate about.
- [Lighting for Good](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-for-good-light-poverty/): As lighting designers we find ourselves justifying, across many fields, the value of what we bring to a project.
- [Dame Caroline Haslett](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dame-caroline-haslett/): “Learn to ‘take the current when it serves’, and give yourself time to LIVE…” This is taken from Dame Caroline Haslett’s book Teach Yourself Household Electricity, first published in 1939, because it pretty much sums up what this influential and visionary woman was about.
- [A Decade in Dubai](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/a-decade-in-dubai-lighting-designers/): Looking back on a decade in Dubai, what stands out most is how much the region has changed.
- [A new era for hospitality lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/a-new-era-for-hospitality-lighting/): There is a feeling of energy and optimism in the hospitality industry right now.
- [We’re Hiring](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/were-hiring/): Nulty is an international lighting design practice built on creativity, precision and collaboration.
- [15 Years of Light in Focus](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/15-years-of-light-in-focus/): Has lighting design changed? The science of light remains the same.
- [15 Years of Bright Ideas](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/15-years-of-bright-ideas/): Fifteen years of Nulty has been quite the rollercoaster ride. We set out with a mission to be more than a lighting design practice, and to push boundaries.
- [The Luxury of Darkness](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-luxury-of-darkness/): At Light Middle East 2026, held beneath the artificial glow of the Dubai World Trade Centre, a group of international experts gathered to discuss a rapidly disappearing natural resource.
- [Infrared Hot Pilates](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/infrared-hot-pilates/): Infrared light, sometimes referred to as ‘red light’, is a long-wavelength light that can penetrate deep into the skin.
- [ALNUFUD DARK SKY PARK](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/alnufud-dark-sky-park/): The recent announcement from DarkSky International confirming the designation of AlNufud Dark Sky Park is a significant milestone for conservation and sustainable tourism – and a moment of celebration for Nulty London, as our team developed the strategic lighting guidelines and lighting management plan for the reserve.
- [Nulty appoints a Director of Education](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-appoints-a-director-of-education/): We are proud to announce that Gary Thornton has been appointed Director of Education – a newly created role that will define how we learn, grow and lead as a practice.
- [2026 in Focus](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/2026-in-focus/): As we move into 2026, our mission at Team Nulty remains unchanged: we use light creatively to breathe life and character into a space.
- [NULTY joins the CID Power list 2025](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-joins-commercial-interior-design-power-list/): We’re delighted to share that our Founder, Paul Nulty, has been named on the 2025 Commercial Interior Design Power List – a wonderful recognition of his vision and the incredible work of Team Nulty.
- [NULTY 2025 UNWRAPPED](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-2025-unwrapped-a-summary-of-our-lighting-design/): We've delivered some amazing lighting design schemes in some beautiful locations and proudly grown our team across continents.
- [The Magic of Christmas lights](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-spirit-of-christmas-a-lighting-designers-perspective/): A Brief History of Christmas Lighting Design For hundreds of years, light has been intrinsically linked with Christmas.
- [More than meets the eye: A feel for light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/more-than-meets-the-eye-a-feel-for-light/): One thing that has caught my attention lately is memories and past experiences.
- [The power of precision](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-power-of-precision-in-lighting-design/): In the world of architectural lighting, precision is everything.
- [Is sentient lighting the future of the workplace?](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sentient-architecture-ai-lighting-design/): Now, imagine that space is your workplace – an office that intuitively brightens when focus dips, softens its light to ease stress, or subtly shifts its atmosphere to encourage collaboration.
- [Nulty Launches an Apprenticeship Scheme](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-launches-an-apprenticeship-scheme/): At Nulty we are continually dedicated to excellence in our industry and we set those standards high, starting with our fantastically-skilled designers.
- [Our lighting-fuelled London Design Festival](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/our-lighting-fuelled-london-design-festival/): Over the course of London Design Festival 2025, our team clocked up 28,000 steps, a fitting measure of just how much ground there was to cover.
- [Greece After Dark: A Fight Against Light Pollution](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/greece-after-dark-a-fight-against-light-pollution/): It’s a striking contradiction, a country that once gazed at the stars now shines light in every direction, especially toward the sky.
- [Our commitment to circularity](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/our-commitment-lighting-design-circularity/): In our 2025 lighting design report, Light in Focus, we make a lot of big and bold statements.
- [The Unseen Brilliance of Near-Infrared](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/near-infrared-innovation-and-lighting-influence/): In our 2025 lighting design report we highlight wellbeing as a highly influential area for light and lighting design development.
- [Light In Focus Report 2025](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/light-in-focus-lighting-design-report/): Light In Focus is our annual design report for the global lighting design community and beyond.
- [In Praise of Shadows](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/in-praise-of-the-shadows/): In Memory of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki the Japanese literary who explored the interplay of light and shadow, in contrast to the brightness of modern Western design.
- [Delight Series: How is hospitality lighting changing?](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/delight-series-how-is-hospitality-lighting-changing/): Hospitality lighting should leave a lasting impression, creating an emotional connection between a brand and a guest.
- [Dark Skies Week: Celebrate & Safeguard](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dark-skies-week-celebrate-safeguard/): As a lighting design consultancy, we’re obsessed with light in all its forms—from the ethereal glow of a well-lit gallery to the drama of urban night scapes.
- [The Cinematic Art of Illumination](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-cinematic-art-of-illumination/): Film is a powerful storytelling medium, weaving together visuals and sound to evoke emotion and captivate audiences.
- [Jordan Faust: Managing Partner of Nulty Lisbon](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/jordan-faust-managing-partner-of-nulty-lisbon/): Where does your passion for light originate from?
- [The Role of Light in Restorative Cities](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-role-of-light-in-restorative-cities/): Too bright, too dim, too much glare, we have all been exposed to the negative effects of bad lighting design in a city – you don’t have to be a lighting designer to call it out.
- [Big Wins For The Chedi Hegra And Marina Mall](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/big-wins-for-the-chedi-hadra-and-marina-mall/): We’re proud to celebrate two incredible award wins that showcase the power of lighting in transforming spaces.
- [Lunar New Year Lighting in Bangkok](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lunar-new-year-lighting-in-bangkok/): Lunar New Year in Bangkok is a feast for the senses, but nothing captures its essence quite like the lighting.
- [Creating Equitable Public Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/creating-equitable-public-lighting/): In today’s urban landscape, public lighting plays a complex role – it influences our environment, shapes our perception of spaces, and provides a sense of security.
- [The Secret to a Better Night’s Sleep](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-secret-to-a-better-nights-sleep-lighting-tips-from-nulty/): Getting a good night’s sleep is essential for our physical and mental well-being, yet it’s something many of us struggle with.
- [Awakening Bangkok 2024](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/awakening-bangkok-2024/): Bangkok’s much-anticipated Awakening Bangkok Festival of Lights returned this year with the inspiring theme, 'One Light, One Rises.'
- [Nulty Shines at LIT Awards 2024 with Two Major Wins](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-shines-at-lit-awards-2024-with-two-major-wins/): We’re proud to share some fantastic news: Bromley Old Town Hall has won the Heritage Lighting Design award at the prestigious LIT Lighting Design Awards 2024, while 80 New Bond Street secured a win for Interior Architectural Illumination.
- [Nulty acquires KLAASEN Lighting Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-acquires-klaasen-lighting/): We're excited to announce that we’re expanding our reach across Europe and Asia, with a special focus on Singapore, through the acquisition of KLAASEN Lighting Design—a brand with a 40-year legacy in the industry.
- [Nulty wins Silver at the WIN Awards 2024](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-wins-silver-at-the-win-awards-2024/): We’re thrilled to see our sleek refurbishment for 80 New Bond Street recognised at this year's World Interior News Awards.
- [Studio N Launches in London](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/studio-n-launches-in-london/): After a commercially successful six years curating a unique service offer for interior, architecture and landscape schemes in the MENA region, Nulty's sister brand Studio N expands its operation and officially launches in London – following a steady stream of project work in the UK’s private residential and F&B sectors.
- [Dubai Design Week 2024](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-design-week-2024/): Dubai Design Festival, the Middle East's leading design platform bringing together creatives from the region and beyond, is back for its tenth edition.
- [Nulty wins GOLD at the Build Back Better Awards](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-wins-gold-at-the-build-back-better-awards/): The Build Back Better Awards celebrates innovation, creativity, social purpose and environmental leadership in the build environment.
- [The Art of Designing with Darkness](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-art-of-designing-with-darkness/): Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
- [London Design Festival 2024](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/london-design-festival-2024/): London Design Festival is an annual event that celebrates and promotes the UK's capital as a powerhouse for the creative industries and a design mecca of the world.
- [Curating a Memorable Retail Experience with Light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/curating-a-memorable-retail-experience-with-light/): Across the high street, retailers are investing in their stores and exploring new ways to engage their customers.
- [Nulty appoints Dubai Design Director](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-appoints-dubai-design-director/): We are delighted to announce the appointment of Brice Schneider as Design Director for Dubai following a period of expansion for its Nulty and Studio N brands.
- [NULTY INCLUDED IN THE id50 2024](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-included-in-the-id50-2024/): UAE-based title Identity Magazine has named its top 50 design, architecture and fit out talents for the region, and we’re honoured that our Dubai studio and Paul Nulty were recognised alongside some incredible names and practices.
- [Making Waves Light Installation](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/mumbai-light-festival-making-waves/): On the 22nd January 2024, the Mumbai Light Festival (MLF) witnessed the mesmerising debut of ‘Making Waves’, a light installation that sought to capture the essence of Mumbai's resilient spirit.
- [Championing progressive architecture and design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/championing-progressive-architecture-and-design/): Chloe Fung, Senior Lighting Designer heading up our Singapore studio sat down with Singapore Lighting Today for a light Q&A about expanding in the region, as well as some of our latest projects and the future challenges we face as lighting designers.
- [The lost art of applying for a job](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/applying-for-a-role-in-lighting-design/): We study, we work hard to gain qualifications and build our knowledge, they teach us about being lighting designers, but they don’t teach us about how to become one.
- [Time to take sustainability seriously](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/time-to-take-sustainability-seriously/): The role of an independent lighting designer has always been to pull the creative and technical threads of a project together to elevate an experience, improve efficiency and wellbeing, and fill spaces with emotion and character.
- [Net Zero Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/making-waves-not-ripples/): How can we do more? Net zero is the single most important priority for the construction industry if we want to meet the government’s 2050 target.
- [Awakening Bangkok 2023](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/awakening-bangkok-2023/): Awakening Bangkok, the city’s annual lighting installation extravaganza returned for its sixth year, from 24 November to 3 December, ready to impress locals and tourists alike.
- [Casting Light on India](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/casting-a-light-on-india/): Light isn't just about the illumination of the world around us, it's a part of the story we live.
- [2024 Interior Design Yearbook](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/interior-design-yearbook-workspace-lighting-design/): The 2024 Interior Design Yearbook is an annual publication for interior designers, architects and buyers that includes comment pieces from leading industry figures such as Charu Ghandi from Elicyon, Natalia Miyar, Kelly Hoppen, and our very own Gary Thornton!
- [Trend Report 2023: Retail](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/trend-report-2023-retail-lighting-design/): We’re beginning to see a resurgence in the retail sector as retailers make significant changes to upgrade their stores and improve brand experience.
- [Illuminating Creativity](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/illuminating-creativity-dubai-design-week/): The 7th-12th November saw the annual celebration of creativity and design descend upon the Dubai Design District (D3).
- [Trend Report 2023: Commercial Workplace](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/trend-report-2023-commercial-workplace/): The conversation around the future of the workspace continues.
- [Wayfinding](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/wayfinding-lighting/): Have you ever found yourself in a space; a concourse or an atrium for example, and have no idea how to get to where you need to go?
- [Sustainable by Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sustainable-by-design/): Singapore, sometimes known as ‘instant Asia’, sometimes known as the ‘garden city’, and more recently, thanks to its large port, known as a nation of rapid growth.
- [Nulty Bengaluru](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-bengaluru-studio-opening/): We’re extremely excited to announce the launch of our new studio in Bengaluru and welcome back Harshita Shetty, who re-joins the team to head up Nulty India.
- [Trend Report 2023: Hospitality](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/trend-report-2023-hospitality/): If you Google the most common complaints about a hotel guestroom, not being able to switch off the lights is probably on the list. It’s understandable.
- [We're opening in Singapore](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-singapore-new-office-opening/): In response to a recent influx of work across Southeast Asia, we are excited to be opening a new office in Singapore.
- [Let the Light Tell the Tale](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/let-the-light-tell-the-tale/): In my country of Thailand, light directly connects knowledge and wisdom with the divine.
- [Enhancing the Beauty of Wood](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/enhancing-the-beauty-of-wood/): Paul Nulty sat down with Gustafs, a Scandinavian wood brand and shared his thoughts on lighting and materials, considering the benefits of working with wood, balancing natural and artificial light, and the importance of Light Reflectance Values.
- [Trend Report 2023: Neurodiversity](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/neurodiversity/): There is a growing awareness of another style of thinking classed as ‘neurodivergent’ that refers to how a person’s brain can process, learn, or behave in a different manner from what is considered ‘typical.’ A neurodivergent person may struggle to process visual information or experience hypersensitivity to visual aspects such as light, glare, flicker, and patterns.
- [iLight Singapore](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/ilight-singapore/): It was great to see iLight successfully bringing people together at the world renowned Marina Bay Sands Waterfront Promenade once again this June.
- [Migraines, photophobia and me](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/migraines-photophobia-and-me/): Migraines are the worst – 12% of the world’s population suffer from them. They can last a few hours, a day, or even a week.
- [Trend Report 2023: Dark Skies](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dark-skies/): Artificial light is part and parcel of modern living.
- [Size matters](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/size-matters/): Lighting projects come in all shapes and sizes, from large scale masterplans to small residential refurbishments and we see the value in each and every one.
- [Trend Report 2023: Flicker](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/flicker/): Anyone who’s ever recorded a video in a bar, restaurant or store and experienced an annoying strobing effect on their screen is aware of the presence of flicker.
- [Trend Report 2023: Circular Economy](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/circular-economy/): We’re all aware of how important the circular economy is to global climate change.
- [2023 Trends in Lighting Design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/2023-trends-in-lighting-design-report/)
- [Taking Control](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/taking-control/): Lighting control is the backbone of any lighting project, the synergy between a lighting scheme and its control system is undeniable.
- [Milan Design Week 2023](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/milan-design-week-2023/): Milan Design Week is the single biggest annual design event in the world and this year it was back with a bang.
- [Sustainable lighting design](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/sustainable-lighting-design/): As lighting designers, we work at the crossroads of creativity, technology, and sustainability.
- [Biophilic Lighting in the Workplace](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/biophilic-lighting-in-the-workplace/): Like the natural world where organisms coexist in an interacting ecosystem, biophilic design is the sum of many interconnected parts.
- [Circadian-ish](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/circadian-ish/): Circadian lighting is becoming more widely adopted – or so we’re led to believe.
- [Meet our Business Development Manager](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/meet-our-business-development-manager/): Charlotte joined the company as our Business Development Manager for Nulty London last year and it’s safe to say it’s been a whirlwind, she immediately got stuck in meeting clients and building those all-important relationships.
- [Bangkok Design Week 2023](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/bangkok-design-week-2023/): This year's Bangkok Design Week (BKKDW) was held from 4-12 February, under the theme of "Urban 'NICE'zation" to showcase the potential of Thai creative designers as well as the city’s assets and resources.
- [Lighting, creativity & sustainability](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-creativity-sustainability/): The balancing act between creativity and sustainability in the lighting industry has never been more important.
- [Looking back at 2022](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/looking-back-at-2022/): Season’s greetings from Nulty, Nulty Bespoke and Studio N. Thank you to all our clients, collaborators, and friends for your support over the last 12 months.
- [Energy efficient lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/energy-efficient-lighting-top-tips/): With the current financial climate in the UK, winter setting in and the dark nights fully upon us, we wanted to take a minute to share some tips on how lighting adjustments can help save energy and money, as well as contribute towards reducing carbon emissions, all without reducing the quality of lighting in our space.
- [World Architecture Festival 2022](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/world-architecture-festival-2022/): Sitting in the lounge at Lisbon airport, tucking into my final pastel de nata before the detox begins back in Dubai, I have time to reflect on another beneficial trip to the World Architecture Festival (WAF).
- [Dubai Design Week 2022](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-design-week-2022/): Dubai Design Week returned for the eighth year with a range of exhibitions, workshops and panel discussions, set in Dubai’s Design District (d3).
- [Dubai  (A City of Light)](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dubai-a-city-of-light/): Born and raised in Lebanon, my idea of lighting design was nothing more than someone hanging a few luminaires from a ceiling, ensuring that they glow just enough to brighten a room and get you from one end to the other.
- [Festival of Lights 2022 Berlin](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/festival-of-lights-2022-berlin/): The 18th annual Berlin Festival of Lights (BFoL) took place between 7th-16th October this year and showcased a total of 70 works of art, created by 90 artists, from 12 different countries around the world, at over 35 venues across the city.
- [Nulty launches in India](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-launches-studio-in-india/): We’re delighted to announce that we’ve launched a new office in Pune to expand our project scope throughout India.
- [The Art of Commissioning](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/the-art-of-commissioning/): What is commissioning? As lighting designers, we spend our time designing, detailing, and developing lighting schemes – that’s our job.
- [Banglamphu Blossoms in a New Light](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/banglamphu-blossoms-in-a-new-light-festival/): The area of Banglamphu is typically known as a place where old meets new. Thanks to the numerous temples and museums, the area is steeped in Thai history.
- [Q&A with Betty Kajajian](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/lighting-qa-with-betty-kajajian/): Earlier this year Betty joined the Nulty team as a Senior Lighting Designer and we thought we would take the opportunity to get to know her a little better and find out what inspires her when it comes to lighting design and where she thinks the industry is heading, as well as a few other things...
- [Hospitality Trends](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/hospitality-trends-lighting-design/): It’s heartening to see the hospitality industry move away from a style-over-substance approach to lighting design.
- [Retail Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/retail-lighting-design/): Retail brands are attracting customers through real-time interactions and engaging store concepts.
- [Workplace Lighting](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/office-workplace-lighting-design/): The lines between workplace and hospitality have overlapped and we've seen hotel design influences emerge in the commercial sector.
- [Dark Sky Bright City](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/dark-sky-bright-city/): The Sun rose over the mountains and soon the boy was awake. His days were usually very busy helping his parents around the house and his uncle with the crops.
- [Auriens Chelsea, Lighting Journal](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/auriens-chelsea-lighting-journal/): The April issue of Lighting Journal features an article about the lighting scheme we developed for luxury later living development, Auriens Chelsea.
- [In Conversation with Daniel Blaker](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/in-conversation-with-daniel-blaker-creative-director/): Being very close to his carpenter grandfather as a child, Daniel Blaker, our Creative Director, has always been fascinated by what can be created when materials are manipulated.
- [2022 Lighting Design Report](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/2022-lighting-design-report-research-trends/): We've compiled a 2022 Lighting Design Report that provides a summary of the research and trends influencing the industry right now.
- [25hours Hotel Dubai & The Westin London](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/25hours-hotel-one-central-dubai-the-westin-london-city-sleeper-magazine/): The latest issue of Sleeper magazine features two new hotels that we designed the lighting schemes for - the quirky, fun-filled 25hours Hotel in Dubai and the first Westin hotel to open its doors in the UK.
- [Expo 2020 Dubai Highlights](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/expo-2020-dubai-highlights/): Showing the spirit of celebration and coming together (despite the pandemic), Dubai opened its doors to the world at the start of October 2021 for Expo 2020 and the gathering of over 190 countries.
- [Bangkok Design Week 2022](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/bangkok-design-week-2022-light-installations/): This year Bangkok Design Week took place over nine days from 5-13 February and the theme was "Co With Creation" - the "Co" referencing the need to work collectively to better address challenges (you can read more on this here).
- [Nulty & AESG Kingdom Classic Golf Day](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/nulty-aesg-kingdom-classic-golf-day-2022/): The inaugural Nulty & AESG Kingdom Classic Golf Day took place on Thursday 20 January at Riyadh Golf Club.
- [Wolfson Economics Prize](https://nultylighting.co.uk/blog/wolfson-economics-prize-2021/): At the end of last year, Ab Rogers Design won the Wolfson Economics Prize for its inspiring Living Systems proposal.

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