We're lighting designers we're proud of it

Architectural lighting design is something of a fledgling profession compared with some of our peers in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, etc.  That’s OK, we accept that.

Many people who enter our profession come from disparate backgrounds – at Electrolight our team comprises designers with backgrounds in architecture, industrial design, theatre and engineering. But we are all now architectural lighting designers now because we have applied this background learning to our craft, have gained additional specific lighting qualifications, obtained peer-reviewed certification and practice our trade on a daily basis.

We’ve noticed a number of our contemporaries of late calling themselves ‘Lighting architects’, ‘Designers that work with light’, ‘Visual planners’. We’ve even come across ‘Brightness arrangers’, for goodness sake!  What’s wrong with calling yourself a lighting designer if you are a lighting designer?  It’s hard enough getting lighting design included as a specialist consultant in project briefs as it is without confusing potential clients further with ambiguous titles.

We’re lighting designers and we’re proud to be called lighting designers.