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Paul James, editor, writes: While my deputy editor was trawling the streets of London to give you his tour de force of the London Design Festival, I was in New Orleans for the IALD Enlighten Americas conference. Part of this excellent event was the feasibility study update by the IALD taskforce regarding credentialing for lighting designers. If you are not aware of this then you should be and you’ll be hearing a lot more over the coming months. Although no global uni- versal standards yet exist for architectural lighting design, the IALD feels there is sufficient evidence that a substan- tive body of knowledge does exist within the profession and that the profession should consider having its own unique design credential that would not only help standardise that body of knowledge but also assess practitioner competence for those wishing to enter the profession. It is also very important in notifying law makers that lighting design is indeed an established profession. This whole is- sue came about when Texas State Legislature, in 2009, considered legislation that would have had the unintended consequence of outlawing lighting design. Although this is the only incidence of its kind so far (and it was successfully fought by the IALD), this is an issue that could potentially occur anywhere in the world and the lighting design industry will do well to heed the warning and to come together to ensure it doesn’t happen again. The IALD are in consultation with other organisations including the PLDA to ensure that there is industry-wide support for this initiative. It is hoped that the credentialing framework will be in place by the middle of next year but there are plenty of opportuni- ties to get involved with the process before then - anyone involved in lighting design can apply, not just independent lighting designers. This extremely important initiative will be discussed at an update session at The ARC Show in London next February so if you are attending the show it would make sense to find out more. As professions evolve and mature, there is undoubtedly a move toward standardisation of train- ing and business practices by those working within the profession. We have now reached a point, I believe, when standardisation, both in the eyes of the law and our peers, can only benefit the lighting design profession.
Pete Brewis, deputy editor, writes: The idea of London as a creative centre of design has long been something of a self-fulfilling prophecy with young designers perpetually drawn to the UK capital - and then to each other - to form pockets of art and innovation across the city. With this year’s London Design Festival packaged into design districts, this sale of London as a multi-hub creative capital was in full force.
The importance of location and its changing relationship with the design and manufacturing process was one of the subjects up for discussion in one LDF event held at The Dock – one of the afore mentioned pockets of cool located out
to the west of the city. A panel, including The Dock’s founder Tom Dixon and Aston Martin’s Design Director Marek Reichman, highlighted the way that increased mechanisation of manufacturing processes have reduced the benefits of cheap foreign labour, prompting many companies to bring production back home. A key benefit of this move has been in bringing designer and product engineer closer together in a faster, more efficient production process. Across town at the Tramshed exhibition, Caroline Till of trendspotters Franklin Till outlined her thoughts on what she sees as a move towards a more craft-based manufacturing and consumer mentality. Products increasingly come with a story: a sense of history, a sense of place and a sense that a degree of craftsmanship – or at the very least a high-quality of manufacturing – has gone in to the production of a particular item. Seemingly this is true not just of smaller bespoke pieces but manufacturing across the board. The internet is of course a vital medium for communicating these craft values directly from the manufacturer – or on the smaller scale, the designer – to the end user and consumer. For many of the innovative designers at this year’s London Design Festival, a presence on the web allows them near equal billing with some of the big players in the lighting design world. With this issue’s London Design Festival special, we’ve tried to link you to as many of these new voices as possible and, having seen them up close and in person, I would definitely recom- mend you give them a click.
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