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Improving the Healthcare Experience with Lighting

By Alcon Lighting / March 31, 2021

Better healthcare lighting often means lower overall costs for hospitals, doctors or dental offices, medical facilities and assisted or senior living centers. Given the complications of today’s healthcare system, improved lighting at a lower cost can afford a serious and distinct advantage for patient and doctor alike. This post examines healthcare lighting in detail with specific guidelines, facts and context.

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Retail Lighting: Five Best Practices

December 11, 2019 by Alcon Lighting

Products can demand attention with the help of proper lighting. This means an open floor plan with tactical attention to lighting fixture placement, brightness, color temperature, and CRI. The ability of LED Lighting to meet these technical requirements is what makes it the #1 choice of lighting designers and architects.

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Trimless Recessed Lighting: Prerequisites for the Polished Installation

October 1, 2019 by Alcon Lighting

For the versatile, upscale look, designers often recommend trimless recessed lighting. The term trimless recessed refers to recessed lighting which contains no visible trim ring. The installation of trimless recessed lighting is more involved. Here are tips we believe will help ensure a clean, professional installation.

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Dressing Room Lighting: Finding the Perfect Fit

July 17, 2019 by Alcon Lighting

It is a truth universally acknowledged that store dressing rooms are every woman’s worst nightmare. The number one complaint voiced by women and men everywhere is that the lighting is harsh, glaring and reminiscent of the dentist’s chair or perhaps a police interrogation room (“No, officer, I did not realize that pairing Converse with Versace was a crime against fashion”).

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5 Lighting Design Tips from Starbucks’ Directors of Store Design

October 20, 2018 by Alcon Lighting

When designing for a retail space, it is important to consider not only the design aesthetic that needs to be achieved but also the patron and the intended experience.

Lighting design for retail spaces vary from displaying delicate pieces of jewelry to endless shelves of apparel; and when it comes to coffee shops, the detail and effort into lighting design is no different. Min Cho and Jill Enomoto, directors of store design for Starbucks, share their tips on how to use light to welcome and guide customer experience.

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Choosing the Right Track Lighting for a Retail Store

December 2, 2015 by Alcon Lighting

Operating a retail store involves making many important decisions, and perhaps one of the most important decisions involves the space itself. Lighting is a big part of a retail space and choosing the right type of lighting is important to ensure products are properly highlighted, shadows and dark spots are minimized and levels of direct light exposure provide a proper, well-lit, glare-free environment.